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Mr. Mack was born in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, December 31, 1863, son of George and Mary (Hodge) Mack. When he was a child his parents moved to Stuart, Iowa, where he acquired his education in the grammar and high schools and later in the State Normal School. When he was nineteen years old he went to the Northwest to seek his opportunities, and at Salem, Oregon, was deputy county clerk of Marion County for three years. At Portland, Oregon, he was associated with Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company, wholesale implement dealers, as superintendent of their collection department for ten years. Resigning this office, he removed to Wallowa County, Oregon, and was cashier of the First Bank of Joseph until 1907.
Mr. Mack came to Los Angeles in 1907 to become associated with E. A. Montgomery, a boyhood friend, in the varied and important mining and other interests of the latter. Mr. Mack became treasurer of the Skidoo Mines Company, owned and operated by Mr. Montgomery. Since 1914 he has been secretary and treasurer of the Paunco Excelsior Oil Company, whose chief property is in the Paunco district, near Tampico, Mexico. In 1917 Mr. Mack accomplished the closing of the sale of the Paunco Excelsior Oil Company property to the Standard Oil Company, a transaction involving a million dollars. Mr. Mack is also secretary and treasurer of the Topila Petroleum Company.
Mr. Mack, whose offices are in the Investment Building, in Los Angeles, is a member of the Masonic Order, the Elks, and is a republican voter. At Salem, Oregon, April 11, 1888, he married Lo Ruhamah Chapman. They have two daughters, Nina, wife of H. S. Gibson of Joseph, Oregon, and Helen, wife of A. K. Parker, cashier of a bank at Enterprise, Oregon.
GIRLS' COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. There are many facts that contribute to the impressive record of the Girls' Collegiate School of Los Angeles. Established in September, 1892, as a day school, it has completed twenty- six years of work, and has steadily increased in numbers of pupils, and especially in its reputation for sound, wholesome and efficient training. It is a school where apparently most successful effort has been made to judiciously apportion the emphasis placed upon different departments. Scholarship has not been exalted at the expense of health, personality and character, which are considered as essential as intellectual training, and specialized functions have not taken precedence over life in its broadest and most liberal sense.
The school has graduated twenty-one classes, and more than four hundred girl graduates have had this school as their environment during their most impressionable years.
The principals and founders of the school, Miss Parsons and Miss Dennen, had about fifty pupils under their direction as scholars the first year. The first home of the school was at Tenth and Olive Streets. Larger quarters soon had to be secured, and then in a few years a second removal was necessary. This time they secured a building at Grand Avenue and Washington Street, and at that time were equipped. to receive a few boarding pupils. The present home of the Girls' Col-
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legiate School is at the southeast corner of South Hoover Street and Adams Street, where they have grounds comprising about two acres, in the older residence section. Adams Street has long been famous for the beauty of its trees and its charming homes. And even today many might pass and regard the beautiful buildings of the school as a private residence. The main building is known as the Casa de Rosas, and it is not difficult to understand how it has been frequently called the most artistic and complete private school building in Southern California. It is built in the pure Spanish Renaissance style, surrounding a large patio, with all the workrooms opening upon the court. Adjoining it is a one- story building, in harmony with the architecture of the larger building, used for a gymnasium, and in September, 1915, the Rose Court was added as another charming Spanish building to the group.
With these buildings and with facilities added from time to time, this is now one of the largest girls' schools in Los Angeles. There are accommodations for sixty boarding or residence students, and about a hundred fifty pupils can be cared for both as resident and day scholars.
Besides the two principals, there is a faculty of about twenty-five instructors, many of whom are graduates of noted colleges and univer- sities of the East and have had extensive foreign training. The curri- culum offers opportunities for generous education, beginning with the equivalent of the eighth grade of the grammar school and including a regular academic or high school department and also post-graduate department. The Academic Department embraces College Preparatory, General, Fine Arts, Home-Making courses, and also special courses in Music, Art, Expression, Domestic Art and Business. Graduates from the Art Department, of which Miss Edith Hynes is at the head, receive cer- tificates which are recognized by all universities. A graduate of the Ex- pression Department is accepted as a junior in the School of Oratory of Northwestern University. The school established its business or com- mercial department in 1915, and also a department for secretarial train- ing. This department has been so generously patronized that the man- agers are now preparing to erect a separate building for that branch of the school.
While the doing of useful things is an object and ideal never lost sight of, the pupils find constant encouragement and opportunity for physical recreation and education. There is gymnasium work, aesthetic dancing, swimming, tennis, riding and, owing to the good fortune of the climate of the school's home, practically all its activities present oppor- tunities for the enjoyment of outdoor life.
Miss Jeanne W. Dennen was born in Boston, while Miss Alice K. Parson, the other principal, is a native of New York City. The former is a graduate of Mrs. Cady's School for Girls at New Haven, while Miss Parsons is a graduate of Wells College. Miss Dennen first taught in the Packer Institute at Brooklyn, and in 1885 she became associated with Miss Parsons, who had spent two years abroad after graduating from Wells, and they opened a girls' school in Brooklyn. From that city they came to Los Angeles in 1892 and laid the foundation of the school which their careful work and efficient supervision have brought to the standards that it today enjoys.
C. FRED GRUNDY before coming to Los Angeles had the distinction of conducting the second largest house furnishing goods establishment in Canada, and also had a record as a successful financier and invest- ment banker in Chicago. Mr. Grundy is now the Los Angeles repre-
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sentative of Andrews & Company, an organization with a world-wide reputation in financial circles. Andrews & Company while now serving a clientele of hundreds of thousands through the main and branch offices scattered all over the country founded by A. M. Andrews, pres- ent head of the corporation, in 1900, with only desk room in the Woman's Temple building in Chicago. From the first business has been conducted on a high plane of investment banking. The company originated the cumulative convertible preferred stock plan of investment and they have handled a large list of stable stocks and bonds and have also specialized in industrial and motor issues.
Mr. Grundy was born at London, Ontario, Canada, August 14, 1874, son of William and Amelia Charlotte (Lintott) Grundy. His parents moved to Winnipeg when he was a child and he there attended the grammar and high schools, graduating at the age of fifteen. In 1892 he completed his course in the University of Manitoba, and then engaged in the general agency business at Winnipeg. In 1896, on account of his father's ill health, he took charge of the latter's ยท piano and music house and his youth and initiative soon supplied a tremendous impetus to this modest concern. He broadened its scope into a general house furnishing goods business, and in less than ten years had made it the second largest concern of its kind in Canada. From an annual volume of business of about sixty thousand dollars, he increased it to about nine hundred thousand dollars annually, and had an immense stock distributed over eight floors, each 90x195 feet.
Selling this great mercantile emporium in 1906 Mr. Grundy removed to Chicago as representative for Hunter, Cooper & Company, of Lon- don, England. He represented this firm in the investment business until 1909, when he resigned and removed to Los Angeles. Here he resumed the business of loaning money and later was interested in the automo- bile business and oil development. In 1913 he returned to the invest- ment and banking business, handling stocks and bonds. Mr. Grundy has been manager for Andrews & Company since 1916, having charge of the Pacific Coast division comprising all the territory west of Denver. Andrews & Company are not promoters, but confine their attention strictly to financing large institutions, especially those manufacturing goods of a national reputation and sale. Perhaps no one fact is of greater significance in estimating the business of this company through its main and twenty-one branch offices than the statement that fre- quently as high as fifty thousand dollars is paid out in a single month for long distance telephone tolls.
Mr. Grundy has become well known in Los Angeles social and business life, is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Anan- dale Country Club, and the Masonic Order. He is a republican and a Methodist. At Winnipeg, Canada, in March, 1896, he married Dollie Coultry. They are the parents of two children, Harols A., born in 1896, and Alma B., a graduate of the Cumnock School for Girls. The son is a graduate of the Polytechnic High School, also had training in a business college, and was in the office equipment department of Barker Bros. when the war broke out. April 2, 1917, he enlisted in the navy and was on duty on the Destroyer Davis and Cruiser St. Louis. He made three round trips to Europe during the war, and at present is signal quartermaster on the government Transport Imperator.
MARTIN V. McQUIGG. Without the definite talent for organization with which a few men of the many are endowed, the opening up of new
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territories, the development of natural resources and the expansion of business would often be delayed. This organizing faculty, working on a stable business foundation, produces marvelous results that benefit the entire sphere of commercial life. In this connection attention may be called to a man of great achievement in this line, Martin V. McQuigg, who has home and maintains offices at Los Angeles. Mr. McQuigg has been officially connected with many of the greatest developments in the oil industry in the country for a number of years, and in addition to other positions of prominence, is president of the American Fuel, Oil & Transportation Company, which company recently made the larg- est single contract for the purchase of fuel oil in the history of the United States, the quantity being over 100,000,000 barrels, several ships having been chartered and twenty 10,000 ton tankers are now under con- struction for the delivery of this oil in Europe.
Martin V. McQuigg was born in Wright County, Missouri, Septem- ber 15, 1861, His parents were Martin V. and Frances (Weaver) McQuigg. He attended the public schools until fourteen years of age, then entered a general store in a clerical capacity, at a salary of $200 a year for the first eighteen months, after that receiving a share of the profits, and by the time he was twenty years old was so highly appre- ciated for business sagacity, that he was admitted to partnership.
In 1889 Mr. McQuigg sold his store interest and went to Ontario, Cal., where he organized the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier and a director for ten years, when he resigned the office of cashier, but is still a stockholder of the bank. During this interval he had organized a number of irrigation water companies. In 1900 he went to Kern county, California, where he began oil operating and organized the Euclid Oil Company, and the Globe Oil Company, and is yet president of both companies. In 1902 he organized the Monterey County Gas & Electric Company, of which he was president, this company operating the water, electric light and gas systems of Salinas; the gas, electric light and electric railway system of Pacific Grove, Santa Cruz and Capitola, Cali- fornia, and the Watsonville Railway, of Watsonville, California, which was later merged with the Santa Cruz Electric Railway, which later became the Union Traction Company. Mr. McQuigg sold his interests in 1906.
In 1902 he organized the Independent Oil Company, of which he was president for one year and treasurer and director since then. One of his associates in the organization of this company was Hon. Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the United States Interior Department. In 1907 Mr. McQuigg again exercised his faculty for business organization, in founding the Exchange National Bank of Long Beach, California, of which he was manager until 1914, when he sold out. In 1907 he also organized the Traders Oil Company, of which he is president, and in 1918 he organized the Traders Oil Corporation, formed to acquire the interests of the Traders and other oil companies. In 1919 he organized the American Fuel, Oil and Transportation Company of Delaware, with offices at 170 Broadway, New York City, of which company he is presi- dent. This company has absorbed the Traders Oil Company and has large interests in South America, owning three and a half million acres of land there. The company is engaged in oil producing, transportation enterprises, in oil, marketing and refining, and also owns a large acre- age in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Mexico. Only men of the keenest business capacity and commercial experience can successfully handle an enterprise of such vast proportions.
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Mr. McQuigg was married at Seymour, Missouri, December 25, 1884, to Miss Clara Robertson, who died in 1899, survived by three children: Frank, who is general field manager of the Traders Oil Com- pany; Harry, who is petroleum engineer, has charge of the Kansas development for the Traders Oil Company ; and Clara Louise, who resides at home. Mr. McQuigg's second marriage took place at Pasadena, California, June 22, 1905, to Miss Annie Wood, whose father, Almon Wood, came to California with the pioneers. -
JOHN JOSEPH GILLIGAN, who came to California ten years ago, has earned one of the most conspicuous successes in the field of liability insurance, and is now managing head and proprietor of a general insur- ance business hardly second to any in that state.
There were numerous shifts and varying experiences in the early life of Mr. Gilligan before he accommodated himself to his right and proper field of work. He was born at Brooklyn, New York, January 23, 1880, a son of Daniel and Catherine (Cooney) Gilligan. His boy- hood was spent at Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and after graduat- ing from high school in 1898 he earned some valuable experience in the office of a Wall Street broker. About a year later he made progress to a clerkship in the First National Bank of New York. In another year he was back at Irvington with his father as his business associate. His father was a contractor in interior decorating, and the son not only helped execute but also design some of the work of the firm during the next three years. 1131984
In 1903 Mr. Gilligan sought a very different experience to anything he had had before when he became a ranchman and cowboy in Kansas, and the life appealed to him so strongly that he took up a homestead of a hundred sixty acres. His enthusiasm for this sort of thing soon wore off, and he returned to New York. For a year he was city sales- man for F. A. Foster & Company, one of the largest cotton goods art drapery houses in the world. Again going west, he left Denver to join the rush to the mines at Goldfield, Nevada, in 1905, and for nearly a year was prospecting and mining though with results hardly satisfac- tory to him.
Soon after that experience Mr. Gilligan, having returned to Denver, was appointed assistant manager of the American Surety Company of New York for the four states of Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. It was congenial work, and more so because it demon- strated his remarkable ability to handle it with a high degree of skill and profit to the company. For several years he was with that company, but in 1909 resigned to move to Los Angeles. Here he was appointed special agent for the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, who later transferred him to San Francisco. In December, 1910, he accepted appointment as casualty manager for the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, having the entire state of California as his territory. Then in the spring of 1912 he was made southwestern manager for the com- pany, his territory being southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
In 1915 Mr. Gilligan resigned as manager of the Fidelity and De- posit Company of Maryland to enter the general insurance business for himself. He now has the general agency of Southern California Terri- tory for the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York, the Georgia Casualty Company of Macon, Georgia, and the American Indem- nity Company of Galveston, Texas. He also has several other agencies for Los Angeles territory, and the volume of business transacted through
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his personal efforts now runs a hundred fifty thousand dollars a year in premiums, and because of his peculiar ability and success in this field he has given up all his sub-agencies in Southern California. Mr. Gilli- gan is now organizing The Motor Truck Club Auto Inter-Insurance Exchange, which he will serve as attorney.
He is secretary of the Motor Truck Club and is affiliated with the Elks, Knights of Columbus, and Los Angeles Athletic Club.
June 15, 1909, at Denver, he married Miss Margaret A. Goodwin. They have four children: Joseph, born in 1910; Francis Gerald, born in 1911 ; Lucile Helen, born in 1914; and John J., Jr., born in 1916. The two older sons are now attending St. Brendan's School.
RAYMOND H. WILLARD. Mr. Willard's chief range of experience before coming to Los Angeles was as a Chicago banker, but in this city he has been increasingly identified with the contracting business and as head of the Willard-Brent Company has handled a large number of important construction contracts in the city and surrounding territory.
Mr. Willard was born at Erie, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1883. In 1884 his parents James R. and Julia Maria (Hobart) Willard moved west to Union City, Michigan, where the son acquired his early educa- tion in the grammar and high schools. In 1898 at the age of fifteen he went to Chicago and finished his education in the Manual Training School, from which he graduated in 1901. The next three years he was employed in a general round of duties with the Drovers National Bank of Chicago, and lett that to become cashier in the Kenwood Trust & Savings Bank, one of the larger outlying banks in the Chicago district.
Mr. Willard came to Los Angeles in 1907. Here he organized the Willard-Slater Company, general contractors, and was president of that company until 1915. Having sold his interests, he organized a new company, The Willard-Brent Company, of which he is president and treasurer, with Edward I. Brent, vice president and secretary.
It will best serve to indicate the character of the company's business to mention some of the important buildings recently erected by them, as follows: Loretta Street School, Manchester Avenue School, Marengo Avenue School, Cheremoyo Avenue School, cafeteria building for the Los Angeles high school, the fifty thousand dollar home of Dr. E. A. Bryant on West Adams Street, the thirty thousand dollar residence of A. Getty at Wilshire and Hobart Boulevard, the addition to the Angelus Mesa School, in 1917 ; the office building of the Hill Chemical Company at 6th and San Pedro Streets. The firm is now constructing one of the units of the Hollywood High School.
Mr. Willard, who is unmarried, is a member of the Masonic bodies in the York Rite and Shrine, of the Episcopal Church, and is a repub- lican voter.
WILLIAM CLAYTON MCMULLEN is proprietor of Mack's Paint Shop. a business of distinctive service to automobile owners. No one will take issue with us when we say that Mr. McMullen is a pioneer in this branch of the automobile industry, as he was engaged in the painting of vehicles long before the motor driven car made its appearance anywhere. Investigation discloses the fact that most of the successful automobile paint shops and top manufacturing plants are owned or managed by men who served their time or finished their training under Mack.
A brief survey of Mr. McMullen's career discloses the following facts :
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He was born at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, 1868, son of Hiram F. and Phoebe (Bininger) McMullen. His parents soon after his birth moved to Bellville, Ontario. He finished his trade at Watertown, New York, with the Union Carriage and Gear Company, where he served and mastered each branch of the work, from ground work, color mixing and paint making, up to the zenith of a carriage painter's possibilities, namely, body finishing, striping, and monogram designing. Few men in these days of highly specialized training can boast of such wide experience. He left the above firm to finish bodies for the Babcock Carriage Works.
It was while at Watertown, New York, that Mr. McMullen met and married Miss Cordelia Simmons. They have two children, Harry B., born in 1896, and Lena. The son gradated from high school and busi- ness college and was engaged in drafting maps and signs for the Auto- mobile Club of Southern California, until he entered the hrdlu hrdlu uu the termination of the war he has been taking an active part in his fath- er's business. Lena, the daughter is a graduate of Los Angeles High School and is now specializing in a private school.
Mr. McMullen, soon after his marriage became connected with the Durant and Dort Carriage Works of Flint, Michigan, as superintendent of one of their factories. During his stay of five years with the above concern, the manufacture of automobiles had become a thriving industry, and with a desire to keep up with the times he determined to connect with an automobile manufacturing plant at the earliest opportunity. With this purpose in mind he decided to go to California where the lure of the climate and remarkably good roads would be sure to draw motorists.
Leaving Flint, Michigan, in 1903, Mr. McMullen came directly to Los Angeles and soon became foreman of the Tourist Paint Shop, where he remained for three years. Accepting a position with the Durocar Manufacturing Company as foreman of the paint department, he soon thereafter, in connection with his brother, H. F. McMullen, bought out the painting department of the business and renamed same "Mack's Duro Paint Shop." Mr. W. C. McMullen acquired his brother's interest in 1910 and since conducted the business under the registered name of "Mack's Paint Shop."
In 1913 he moved from his first location at 945 South Los Angeles Street, to 1010-1012 South Los Angeles Street, a building constructed to comply with his ideas, but with the ever increasing demand for his work, and also because of the installation of a top and unholstering de- partment in the same shop in 1916, he found himself terribly crowded, and in January, 1918, moved into a specially constructed and much larger building at 1215-1217 South Los Angeles Street.
At the present writing the needs of the business will require the addition of an upper loft very soon and which can, without great incon- venience be added, because provision was made by the builders for such an addition.
Mr. McMullen and his son are Shriners, both being members of Al Malaikah Temple of Los Angeles.
ELON G. GALUSHA became a member of the Los Angeles bar fifteen years ago, and his abilities have steadily promoted him to a front rank among the corporation and probate attorneys of Southern California.
Mr. Galusha represents one of the old colonial families of New York State. He was born at Rochester, August 25, 1877, son of Charles Colgate and Margaret Elizabeth (Gilbert) Galusha. He graduated from
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the Rochester High School in 1895, received his degree A. B. from the University of Rochester in 1899, also holds the degree Master of Arts from the same institution, and did his law work in the Albany Law School, which gave him the degree LL. B. and honorary mention for his work on the subject of corporation law. In the meantime he was acquiring practical and technical experience in the offices of Mead & Hatt at Albany, and under Hon. A. J. Rodenbech, later Judge of the Court of Claims of New York. After his admission to the bar Mr. Galusha practiced with John Voorhis and Sons at Rochester, but in December, 1902, came to Los Angeles. He was in the office of Hon. John D. Pope and on the latter's motion was admitted to the bar April 6, 1903, by the Supreme Court. He continued to be associated with Mr. Pope for two years and has since practiced alone, making a specialty of corporation law and probate work. He has also served as a member of the faculty of the New Southwestern College of Law and is author of several articles on legal procedure. Mr. Galusha has served as direc- tor in several corporations, among them, California Fruit, Candy and Cereals Company, a corporation organized to make a fruit-candy out of the California fruits. He is a republican, member of Sons of the Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi fraternity.
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