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an honorary member of the Burbank Society. The monumental work entitled "Luther Burbank, his Methods and Discoveries and their Prac- tical Appliance," contains on the page following the title: "Dedicated to Daniel O. McCarthy, Honorary Member of the Luther Burbank Society."
During the Civil war a cousin of Mr. McCarthy, Major General Barry, served on General Sherman's Staff. A brother of Mr. McCarthy on the other hand was in the Confederate army, Major Maurice Mc- Carthy. Mary Barry McCarthy, a sister of Mr. McCarthy, came from Holly Springs, Mississippi, to visit her brother and his wife in Sonora, Tuolumne County. While here she met and was married to Colonel B. F. Moore, an uncle of Mrs. Daniel McCarthy, and one of the great criminal lawyers of California, a framer of the State Constitution. Major Maurice McCarthy and his sister Mrs. Katherine McCarthy Hill are given credit for originating the American holiday, Decoration or Memo- rial Day. Mrs. Hill, at Columbus, Mississippi, had begun decorating graves of southern soldiers who had fallen in the war, and later, on the first Memorial Day after the war, her brother Major McCathy suggested that they do the same for northern boys. Their action attracted wide attention, and later a society was form d which set aside a part cular day to perform the ceremony and eventually the institution spread until it became a national holiday. This incident inspired Judge Francis Miles Finch to write the beautiful poem "The Blue and the Gray." As to who and what city first suggested and did decorate both southern and north- ern graves was a question at one time involving a lively controversy. A strenuous claim to the honor was laid by Columbus, Georgia, but after careful investigation it was proved that the custom originated in the kindly offices of Major McCarthy and his sister Mrs. Hill, as just noted. Major Maurice McCarthy has a daughter Katherine McCarthy Cham- berlin, a resident of Los Angeles.
At San Francisco, December 16, 1857, Mr. McCarthy married Aman- da Anderson, a native of Mobile, Alabama, daughter of Mathew and Lucinda (Moore) Anderson, and of an old colonial southern family. Her family home was in a suburb to Mobile. The Andersons were of Scotch extraction. Mrs. McCarthy when a girl of about sixteen came with her parents from the South by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Thence the steamer, the old Brother Jonathan, an old time sidewheeler, carried them to San Francisco. The boat became delayed and was many days over due when it sailed into the Golden Gate of San Fran- cisco, and the surrounding hills were covered with crowds to greet the vessel and its passengers, almost given up for lost. Thus Mrs. Mc- Carthy, too, was a California pioneer.
Mrs. McCarthy died December 31, 1911, while Mr. McCarthy passed away after three days' illness on August 13, 1919. He was a man won- derfully preserved for all his years and experiences, was erect in car- riage and in appearance many years younger than he really was. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy had twelve children, only two of whom are now living: John Harvey McCarthy, a real estate dealer of Los Angeles, and Mary Barry McCarthy of Los Angeles. Mr. McCarthy possessed a wonderful personality. His was a lovable character, a sweet and gentle nature, fond of children and loved by them as well as by men of note. He was the soul of generosity and observed the strictest honesty in all his dealings.
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LLEWELLYN A. BANKS, who for a number of years has been a dominant factor in the citrus fruit industry of Californ'a, has had almost a lifelong experience in the fruit business, and was born in a notable fruit producing section of Lake Erie in northern Ohio.
His birth occurred on Catawba Island, August 15, 1870, son of William L. and Laura Ann ( Moore) Banks. His father's mother was of a family tracing ancestry direct from a passenger of the original Mayflower. Llewellyn A. Banks attended grammar and high school, graduating from the latter at sixteen and then going to Cleveland and serving three years as a traveling salesman for Reynolds & Williams, commission merchants. He then became a traveling representative for his brother, W. A. Banks, who was a receiver and distributor of green and dried fruits under the name W. A. Banks Company. In 1903 Llewellyn bought a half interest in the business and became its presi- dent and manager. The firm enjoyed enviable prosperity and high standing among the fruit commission houses of northern Ohio. In 1907 they contracted in advance for a tremendous lot of fruit at high prices. Wh.n the goods were delivered the panic of that year had intervened, and the firm was unable to meet its obligations. After this catastrophe, which is not infrequent among fruit dealers, Mr. Banks, in the spring of 1909 came to Los Angeles and established the Pacific Coast Fruit Auction Company, for the purpose of buying and selling citrus fruits for cash in carload lots. Mr. Banks put in some busy months organizing all the leading independent citrus fruit packers and shippers of California, and managed the business profitably until the big frost of 1913, when most of the packers and growers became dis- couraged and severed their allegiance. Mr. Banks then went to work to build up another organization, known as the Citrus Growers Cash Association, operating along similar lines. Mr. Banks is sole owner of the business and now has perfected an organization for buying and selling citrus fruits at private sales and paying the growers cash for the fruit.
He is also an independent packer, owning and operating five citrus packing houses, located at Pacoima, Arroyo Park, North Pomona, Red- lands and Orange. He owns eight orange groves, comprising one hun- dred and fifty acres located in Redlands, Arlington Heights and in the beautiful Moreno Valley, and is regarded as one of the big factors in the citrus industry of the state.
Mr. Banks is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles Country Club, the Wilshire Country Club, and is a republican. At Danbury, Connecticut, October 26, 1892, he married Florence E. Banks. Their daughter, Geraldyn, a student in the Hollywood High School, is a young girl of abounding health and a hundred per cent. athlete.
THOMAS J. McCOY, M. D. The late Dr. McCoy, who died sud- denly September 30, 1919, at the age of sixty-two, was one of the oldest and most widely known specialists in Los Angeles. He was also one of the first general physicians to limit their practice in this city, and for a number of years was professor of eye diseases at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Southern Cali- fornia.
Dr. McCoy was born on a farm in Warren county, Ohio, and his people have been American born for generations back. He was edu-
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cated in and around Cincinnati and graduated from the Louisville Col- lege of Medicine. He practiced in Cincinnati until he came to Los Angeles in 1888. For a time he lived at Fourth and Broadway and also on the site of the north annex of the old City Hall. For about five years he was in general practice and then limited his work to the eye. He and Dr. Albert C. Rogers formed a partnership and were the first physicians to limit their work to special lines. Dr. McCoy went to Europe for study and research four different years, and made it a rule to attend hospitals and clinics in New York and Philadelphia every two years. He and Mrs. McCoy made a tour around the world and en route stopped at Calcutta to see the then famous specialist Major Smith operate for cataract. Major Smith was the originator of a new method for cataract operations, and Dr. McCoy eagerly availed himself of the opportunity to visit the Major's hospital. Major Smith allowed Dr. McCoy the privilege of operating on five patients one morning.
His brother, Dr. George McCoy, came into the partnership in 1910, at which time the firm name became Drs. Rogers and McCoy Brothers. Dr. George W. McCoy is still prominent in the profession at Los Angeles.
One of the close friends of Dr. McCoy wrote the following as a tribute to him: "One of the most widely known men in Southern Cali- fornia, remarkable for his maintenance of youthful vigor and looks fifteen years beyond his time, ever a dispenser of cheer and a looker upon the brighter side, a searcher for the best in his fellow men, with boundless charity for the frailities of humanity, his sudden, untimely passing comes as a shocking personal loss to thousands who in the last thirty-two years consulted his skill with respect to his ability and en- during affection for his sunny nature. Of him it might truly be said the world was better for his having lived in it.
"A pioneer specialist in southwestern medicine, Dr. McCoy soon after his arrival, fresh from the most intensive preparation possible in those days, established a partnership with Dr. Albert C. Rogers, limiting the firm's practice to the eye and ear, nose and throat. Dr. Rogers was probably the first physician in Los Angeles to limit his work. For sev- eral years Dr. McCoy had been retired from active participation in the operating and heavier parts of the ever-growing practice. Dr. Rogers, too, had virtually retired, yet both veterans retained their interest and enthusiasm for the practice of medicine to the last. Dr. McCoy de- voted particular attention 'to the eye and was ranked among the ablest oculists of the country."
Besides being incumbent of the chair of ophthalmology at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons he had charge of the eye work at the County Hospital, giving one morning every week to those duties. He was a member of all the medical societies and was president of the eye section of the Doctors' Club. He was one of the early members of the Jonathan Club and Chamber of Commerce. Dr. McCoy was a nature and home lover. He adorned his attractive residence by the plant- ing of trees and many flowering plants and cared more for his home ' than for club life.
June 16, 1911, Dr. McCoy married Miss Lillian Tate, a native of Jowa. Her people came to California in 1888. She is of old Revolu- tionary stock. Her family lived on Belmont Hill. Mrs. McCoy re- members when. the pioneer electric street car line operated on Second and Hill. Mrs. McCoy and one son survive Dr. McCoy.
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Mrs. McCoy was the first woman architect in Los Angeles. She practiced for ten years and planned between six and seven hundred houses, and built nearly all the homes in her neighborhood on Norton Street, including the attractive McCoy place. She is a graduate of the State Normal School and was a teacher of drawing and also took a manual training course. Her father was a contractor, and she came by her technical talents naturally. She opened her own studio in the O. T. Johnson Building, then in the center of the city.
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JOHN C. HIATT, son of Joel and Anna (Cooper) Hiatt, was born at Cadiz, Henry County, Indiana, on March 26, 1840.
in 1861 he enlisted in the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, one of the regiments of the famous "Iron Brigade," and with his regi- ment took part in nearly all of the principal battles fought by the Army of the Potomac from Second Bull Run to the Battle of the Wilderness; he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, captured at the North Anna River, and taken to Libby Prison; from there he was transferred to the Andersonville Prison. He, with Boston Corbett and others, dug the first well in Andersonville Prison, and was there when Providence Spring broke out. He was in Andersonville Prison three months and was then transferred to the prison at Florence, South Carolina, and from there to Charleston. After seven months in prison he was ex- changed. He was at Ford's Theatre in Washington the night Presi- dent Lincoln was assassinated.
He was mustered out of the army in the summer of 1865, and im- mediately went to Iowa, to which state his father had moved during the war.
He was married on April 12, 1866, to Esther Macy, at Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa, and to this union one child was born-William M. Hiatt.
During his residence in Iowa his principal occupation was that of a farmer, though for some years he was also interested in the mercan- tile business. He always took a great interest in politics; was a mem- ber of every republican state convention held in Iowa for twenty con- secutive years; served for a number of years on the Board of Super- visors of Jasper County, and on the County School Board. In 1877 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature of Iowa, and served one term. In 1878 and 1879 he was superintendent of the Iowa Agricultural College Farm at Ames, Iowa.
In the year 1887 he removed to California and settled at Whittier. With his son, he founded the first newspaper published in Whittier, and became actively engaged in the building of the town and community ; he helped organize the Whittier Cannery, which for a number of years furnished labor for many people in that section and a market for fruit ; he also planted and developed many orchards in the community; was Į rominently identified with the development of oil in that neighborhood; was one of the organizers of the Whittier National Bank and served for many years on its Board of Directors and as chairman of its Loan Committee ; was one of the organizers of the Home Savings Bank of Whittier; erected a number of substantial business buildings in the town, and actively assisted in every public improvement in the com- munity.
Both he and his wife were birthright members of the Society of Friends, or Friends' Church, and were always active in church work.
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They were both active in the organization of the Whittier Academy and afterwards of Whittier College, and for many years Mr. Hiatt served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the latter institution. They were always liberal in giving both time and money for the support not only of the cause of education and their church, but for the support of every undertaking for the up-building of the community in which they lived.
His wife died May 14, 1911, and he passed away at the residence of his son, near Whittier, August 2, 1914.
WILLIAM MACY HIATT, only child of the late John C. and Esther (Macy) Hiatt, was born at Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa, March 24, 1868. He received his early education in public and private schools in Lynnville, Lynnville High School, and in Penn College at Oskaloosa. For a time he followed teaching in his native state, and later on taught on the Island of Jamaica, where his parents were temporarily residing as missionary superintendents for the Society of Friends. His parents having moved to California, he joined them at Whittier in 1887. With his father, he founded the Whittier Graphic, the first newspaper of Whittier. A year later he started another newspaper at Newberg, Ore- gon. After selling his newspaper interests in Oregon he returned to Southern California.
In 1892 Mr. Hiatt entered the law offices of the Honorable Henry C. Dillon as a student, and was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of California on April 4, 1893, and since that time has been ac- tively engaged in the practice of law. For a number of years he had his home and office at Whittier; he attended to the legal details of the incorporation of the City of Whittier, and served as its first City Attor- ney. In 1901 he came to Los Angeles as a member of the legal de- partment of the Title Insurance and Trust Company. He resigned that position January 1, 1904, since which time he has been engaged in general practice with offices in Los Angeles. From 1910 to 1914 he was a member of the firm of Hiatt & Selby, and since 1914 he has main- tained offices in the W. I. Hollingsworth Building.
He helped organize the Whittier National Bank and the Home Savings Bank of Whittier, serving as a member of the Board of Direc- tors of the latter Bank for a number of years. He was identified with the development of the oil fields of Whittier ; he has also been interested in the planting of orange, lemon and walnut orchards; and has dealt in real estate in Pasadena, Los Angeles and other places.
In politics Mr. Hiatt is a republican. He is a member of the Jona- than Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Automobile Club of Southern California, the Los Angeles Bar Association and the California Bar Association. He is also a member of the Friends Church at Whittier.
On August 4, 1903, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, he married Miss Clara Meredith. Mrs. Hiatt died in June, 1909, at Whittier, the mother of one son, John Meredith Hiatt, who was born in 1905.
On November 10, 1910, Mr. Hiatt married Miss Winifred N. Nau- erth of Los Angeles. They have one son, William Nauerth Hiatt, who was born in 1912. Mr. Hiatt has an orange and lemon orchard near Rivera, upon which he resides.
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CHARLES KOSSOUTH BOOK came to Los Angeles twenty-two years ago in 1898. At that time as well as since he enjoyed an enviable repu- tation among the practical oil experts of America. He was born and reared in the atmosphere of the petroleum industry in western Pennsyl- vania. He came from a family of forceful business executives and as a young man he began his explorations and observations, operating oil rigs and drilling all over the hills of western Pennsylvania. He was prominent in the petroleum industry of California.
Mr. Book, who died after a brief illness of one week, February 4, 1920, was born at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, in September 1851. His parents were Colonel William and Ann Emery Book. His mother was related to Lord Harland of England. Colonel William Book held his rank from service in the Pennsylvania Militia, and he drilled a number of companies at Newcastle for the Civil War. Grandfather Book was a Revolutionary soldier. All the brothers of Charles K. Book were in the Civil War, including Dr. W. P. Book, Captain J. S. Book and Rear Admiral G. M. Book, the two latter of Los Angeles.
Charles Kossouth Book was but ten when the war began. He wanted to enlist, but was prevented by his age, but he became drummer and acquiring a uniform, organized a company of boys. He was known as "the Drummer Boy," and as a paper remarked, "Did more than any other single individual to boost enlistments in Lawrence County."
At thirteen he saved a boy from drowning in the Shenango River. After finishing his education at Martin Gantz School, Charles K. Book went into the oil business near Oil City, later operated in the Brad- ford oil fields, and for a number of years was associated with his brother Dr. W. P. Book. While engaged in the practical business of dr.Ling wells he made his home at Bradford and Jamestown, New York, for twenty-two years.
After coming to Los Angeles he acquired interests in oil wells in the immediate vicinity of the city, including one near the site of the old French Hospital. He owned the land there, selling it about six years before his death. He also operated on Kern River, drilling and bringing in some valuable properties, but had disposed of his interests there before his death. He also at one time owned interests in the oil districts of West Virginia.
Mr. Book was a Mason, being affiliated with the various Masonic bodies at Buffalo and Jamestown, New York, including the Shrine. For many years his advice was eagerly sought by corporations and individu- als in the oil industry. He was a man of broad vision, philanthropic and liberal, and while achieving success for himself helped others.
October 3, 1877, Mr. Book married Miss Ida L. Tyler. They were married at Tyler .Hill, Pennsylvania, where she was born, the townsite being named in honor of her grandfather, Israel Tyler. The Tylers are a prominent family in that section of Pennsylvania. Her grandfather was prominent in the lumber business, as a land owner, and at one time owned an extensive group of saw and planing mills, stores, flour mills and other commercial enterprises. Much of his time was spent in Philadelphia and New York. Mrs. Book's father was Moses Tyler, a merchant. Mr. Book is survived by Mrs. Book and one daughter, Dorothy E. Book.
WILLIAM E. HAMPTON has been a resident of California thirty years. In his home state of Illinois he had a successful record as a merchant before coming West. In California his energies had a new birth and
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working through a period of years gave the Pacific Coast one of its largest and most distinctive industries.
Mr. Hampton was born in Illinois, son of William Edward and Matilda M. (Eastin) Hampton. After a public school education, he went to work, at the age of seventeen, in a wholesale and retail grocery house at Charleston, Illinois. Three years later he was appointed travel- ing auditor and cashier for the commission house of C. P. Troy & Com- pany of New York. In 1877 he returned to Charleston, Illinois, estab- lished himself in the dry goods business under the name Ray & Hamp- ton, and in 1880 acquired the entire establishment and conducted it most successfully under the name "Hampton's" until 1886. He then retired and came West, locating in Elsinore Valley, and in 1889 located at San Francisco.
In that city he originated the industry with which his name is still vitally connected. In 1890 he built a factory in San Francisco for the manufacture of patent non-shrinking wooden water and mining tanks. It was his commercial genius applied to a new and important idea and principle which gave to the world a splendid industry. For two years he was in business under the name of W. E. Hampton, using a moderate capital, a small plant, and gradually educating the trade to an apprecia- tion of his wares. For eleven years the industry was conducted as the Pacific Tank Company, W. E. Hampton proprietor. In the meantime he had established branches and agencies throughout the Pacific Coast states. Later he incorporated as the Pacific Tank Company, with him- self as president and active manager.
Mr. Hampton came to Los Angeles in 1898, moving his home to this city and building a large branch factory in Los Angeles.
In 1904 he built a factory at Olympia, Washington, and when it was destroyed by fire five years later, he built another tank factory and large factory for the manufacturing of wood stave pipe in Portland, Ore- gon. Thus four plants came into evidence at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, and from these wooden tanks and pipe as manufactured by Mr. Hampton have been shipped in enlarging quantities all over the world.
In the meantime he has acquired interests in a number of related industries. In 1900 he bought the controlling interest of the California Redwood Pipe Company and reorganized it as the National Wood Pipe Company, and erected large factories in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In 1901 he organized the Pacific Coast Planing Mill in Los Angeles and built a factory and yards covering six acres at Sixth and Mateo streets, in Los Angeles, for a general lumber and planing mill business.
After the San Francisco fire of 1906, Mr. Hampton bought the stock and business of the Mercantile Box Company and National Lumber Company, and has since operated large plants in that city.
In 1909 the Pacific Tank Company and the National Wood Pipe Company were consolidated as the Pacific Tank and Pipe Company. Mr. Hampton was president and general manager of this corporation. Also the Pacific Coast Planing Mill Company, National Tank and Pipe Com- pany and Mercantile Box Company, and now owner of the stock and is president and manager of the William E. Hampton Company as a hold- ing company for all his other interests. He is also a director in the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, the Continental Pipe Manufacturing Company of Seattle, Washington ; Pacific Pipe and Supply Company of Los Angeles, and is president of the Columbus, Newman Club, Factory
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Site Company, Industrial Realty Company and the Tidings Publishing Company, all of Los Angeles.
His movements for civic advancements have enlisted his time and co-operation. He served as a member of the Special Harbor Committee while he was director in the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. He is Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus, a member of the California, Jonathan Newman, Gamut and Los Angeles Country clubs. Mr. Hampton married Miss Frances Wilhoit of Charleston, Illinois
SAMUEL H. FRIEDLANDER. While his home for five years was in Los Angeles, and his death occurred in this city at 357 South Wilton Place, October 24, 1919, the late Samuel H. Friedlander had a fame as a theatrical manager that was at least nation wide, and his associations with artists of music and drama had been continuous for forty years or more.
Mr. Friedlander, who was seventy-one years of age at the time of his death, was a native of Germany, but at the age of three years came with his parents to America. He began his career as a student of music and drama as a critic on the Louisville Post and Courier Journal. His first theater was the Masonic Temple Theater at Louisville, which he managed in 1880. Later he controlled a circuit of the first popular- priced theaters, including Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincin- nati, Louisville, Minneapolis and St. Paul. About twenty-five years ago he located in Portland, Oregon, and from that time until his death was identified with the theatrical interests of the Pacific Coast. He opened up the Portland House for Al. Hayman & Company of New York, later in San Francisco he opened the Baldwin Theater, and subsequently ac- quired the California and Columbia Theaters, which he conducted suc- cessfully for several years. While at the Columbia he organized the Frawley Stock Company, practically every member of which later be- came a star in the dramatic world. He was also credited with the intro- duction of Weber & Fields plays in San Francisco, where the greatest record run of musical productions in the history of the country is re- corded. About five years ago Mr. Friedlander came to Los Angeles and for some time was in charge of the Morosco and the Majestic The- aters. Later, as head of the Friedlander Amusement Company, he booked performers for all the coast country and also made a specialty of controlling state right feature films. In his later years he became per- sonally known to hundreds of actors and actresses in the movie as well as the legitimate stage. As manager he had directed the routing of at least a hundred of the greatest stage celebrities of America and England in his time, beginning with such names as Edwin Booth, Henry Irving and Joseph Jefferson, and including practically every celebrity of the modern stage. However, he did not confine himself to stars of the dramatic world, but also such musical stars as Patti, Nielson, Calve, Nordica, Sembrich and others. Literary celebrities who lectured on tour under his direction included Mark Twain, George W. Cable, James Whit- comb Riley, Bill Nye and Robert Ingersoll. He was instrumental in securing recognition for several dramatic aspirants whose names are now current in stage history, including Nora Bayes, Blanche Bates, Eleanor Robeson, Maxine and Gertrude Elliott.
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