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December 2, 1885, in Manitoba he married Mary Elizabeth Young, also a native of Cork, Ireland, where her father was a prominent physi- cian. Mrs. Kirchhoffer has four brothers living in Manitoba. All were in the World war, two with commissions as colonels and one as major in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Mr. Kirchhoffer was survived by four children, while about eleven months before his death his son Douglas died from influenza-pneumonia. His oldest son is Rev. Richard Ainsley Kirchoffer, rector at All Saints Church at Riverside, who mar- ried Miss Arline Wagner. The older daughter is Nora, wife of Gordon Macleish, also of Los Angeles. The younger daughter Muriel is a kindergarten teacher and the younger son Beresford served as an en- sign in the navy during the war and is connected with the Standard Oil Company.
SPENCER H. SMITH was an annual visitor in Southern California for a number of years, and from 1906 until death owned the beautiful home on West Adams street, where his widow now resides. He died November 28, 1917.
His many friends in Southern California recognize in Mr. Smith a character of great personal charm and of the dignity conferred by many years of successful business experience and the transaction of large and important affairs. He was born in New York City March 4, 1829, of English parentage. His father, who had come to this country in 1802, acquired much property in the East. At one time in his career he planned to come West, but because of his wife's health he remained in New York, where he was a manufacturer, and also owned a farm in Harlem.
Spencer H. Smith was educated at Mrs. Fairchild's School, at Plainfield, New Jersey. His brilliant mind brought him rapid advance- ment in his studies and every instructor advised him to study law and become a lawyer. When he was sixteen years of age his father gave him the choice of going to college and completing a law course or an extended trip to England, upon which his father was then embarking.
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He chose the experience abroad, and after his return engaged in business with his father.
Later he retired from this business and became actively associated with his father-in-law, Mr. Walter Bowne, in handling the latter's large estate. Mr. Bowne gave him his confidence, consulted and talked with him freely. For a time Mr. Smith was president of the Flushing Rail- road when Mr. Bowne owned that property. In 1859 he was made one of the trustees at the incorporation of the Queen's County Savings Bank, at Flushing, Long Island, and at the first meeting was elected treasurer for 1859-60, and again filled the same position in 1863-64.
During his early life Mr. Smith took a prominent part in the New York National Guard, serving as a member of the Seventh Regiment, New York Militia, and later joined Squadron A, of which he was colonel. At the outbreak of the Civil war he sent the first regiment out of New York when the call came for the Home Guard. He was ex- tremely anxious to go with them, but his wife and her father, Mr. Bowne, opposed it, much to his disappointment. Immediately after the war he went South to attend to some business for Mr. Bowne, his trip taking hini as far as New Orleans. As he was an American only one generation removed from England, and had the appearance and man- ners of a typical Englishman, the Southerners in his presence showed none of the restraint and hostility which they expressed before Northern men, and he therefore gained an early intimate view of Southern condi- tions immediately after the great war. Mr. Smith was quick-witted, had a great fund of humor, and was a splendid entertainer in social converse. He knew all the prominent men of his time in New York, and to the last was noted for his retentive memory. Like most Englishmen, he was an excellent horseman, and for many years kept a stable of splendid horses. He was a republican in politics, a member of the Episcopal faith, and belonged to the Union League Club of New York City and the California Club of Los Angeles.
He spent his first winter in California in 1887, and after that so- journed in the state every winter, and in 1906 bought a house and made California his permanent home. He also acquired considerable other property in the West.
Mr. Smith's first wife was Eliza Bowne, daughter of Walter Bowne and granddaughter of Walter Bowne, mayor of New York. She died at San Gabriel in 1892. Her two daughters are Mrs. Charles W. Carpenter of New York and Mrs. Samuel Freeman of New York.
The present Mrs. Smith before her marriage was Miss Catherine Dallett, a daughter of Gillies Dallett of Philadelphia. Mr. Dallett was a prominent Eastern banker, at one time president of the Penn National Bank of Philadelphia. Mrs. Smith resides in the home which Mr. Smith purchased on West Adams street, a delightful spot, the gardens being walled away from the street and adorned with many beautiful plants and shrubs, while the house is a complete expression of comfort and good taste.
LEON R. CONKLIN, Realtor, with offices in the Herman W. Hellman Building, at Fourth and Spring streets, is an old resident of Los Angeles, having been brought here when a boy of twelve years. After com- pleting his education he acquired a well rounded commercial experi- ence, and for a number of years past has been one of the leaders in the real estate business as a realtor. Many important transactions have
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been consummated through him as representative of purchasers and owners.
Mr. Conklin was born at Virginia City, Nevada, June 9, 1874, a son of H. H. and Eliza Conklin. He began his education in the public schools of Eureka, Nevada, and with his parents arrived at Los Angeles in March, 1886. Here he continued his education in the old government school and high school, located at what is now Mercantile Place in the very heart of the business section. That school was so crowded that the junior class of which Mr. Conklin was a member was transferred to the old Lutheran church on Broadway and Sixth Street, a building rented by the Board of Education. After finishing his high school course and graduating from a business college Mr. Conklin began as errand boy with a men's furnishing store, and later became affiliated with the I. L. Lowman & Company store for men, and in that establishment rose in sixteen years from the rank of delivery boy to manager with a work- ing partnership. This firm was one of the first in Los Angeles to install the profit sharing plan with executives.
March 17, 1907, he entered the employ of Bryan & Bradford, real estate, and after five years with them engaged in the same line of busi- ness for himself. He is today recognized as one of the city's ablest realtors. One of many transactions that has a particular interest was consummated early in 1920, when he represented the heirs of a Los Angeles pioneer, Mrs. Ward, in selling a property at 618 South Hope Street to Frank B. Yoakum for a consideration of $46,000. The prop- erty has since been sold by Mr. Yoakum and will be used as a portion of the site for the new University Club Building. In the spring of 1886 when Mr. Conklin first came to Los Angeles he was taken to the home of Mrs. Ward on that property. Mrs. Ward had acquired it only a short time previously for less than four thousand dollars. Mr. Conklin re- calls the fact that oranges were then picked in that part of Hope Street where the Y. M. C. A. now stands.
May 3, 1905, Mr. Conklin married Henrietta B. Drewry, of Chi- cago. Mrs. Conklin is devoted to home and home interests and has been a valued asset to her husband in his business career. She and Mr. Conklin attend the Christian Science church. Mr. Conklin is affiliated with the Masonic Order, is a member of the Los Angeles City Club, the Los Angeles Realty Board, and the Los Angeles County Pioneer Society and the Nevada State Society. In politics he is a republican.
Ross T. HICKcox is a Los Angeles lawyer of twenty years' prac- tice and experience, and for over ten years has been head of the firm Hickcox & Crenshaw, handling a large volume of general practice but in one sense specialists in the law of Insurance, Surety and Bond mat- ters. Their offices are at 356 South Spring Street.
Mr. Hickcox was born on a cattle ranch at Deer Creek, Nebraska, March 24, 1874, a son of Clark A. and Martha B. (Joiner) Hickcox. When he was a small child his parents removed to Southeastern Kan- sas, and he received his early education at Girar-1 in that State. He graduated from the Girard High School in 1891, and for a year taught school there. Coming west to California and dependent on his own re- sources he found employment in a general store at Lemore, one year, but soon devoted all his resources to the study of law in Los Angeles. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and since then has been in regular practice. He formed a partnership with Mr. L. O. Crenshaw in 1907.
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Mr. Hickcox volunteered and went to San Francisco with the Seventh California Regiment U. S. V. I., in 1898, and was mustered out in Los Angeles the same year. For two terms he served as a trustee of the Los Angeles Public Library. In October, 1918, the firm of Hickcox & Crenshaw opened a law office at El Centro, in Imperial County, and Mr. Hickcox since that date has spent the major portion of his time in that city. Mr. Hickcox himself owns one of the finest law and pri- vate libraries in Southern California. He is very fond of outdoor sports, and is credited with having collected some of the rarest hunting trophies possessed by any citizen of Southern California. In 1899 he married Marie Frances Skinner. Mr. Hickcox is a member of the California Club, San Gabriel Country Club and the Sierra Club.
PATRICK COCHRANE CAMPBELL, whose business activities since com- ing to Los Angeles has prominently identified him in real estate circles, is a member of the governing committee and former treasurer of the Los Angeles Realty Board. During the World war he acted as gen- eral chairman of the Real Estate Committee for the Liberty and Vic- tory Loans. This committee was one of the most successful among the various local organizations striving in friendly rivalry for the success of the loans, his committee during the Victory Loan campaign securing sub- scriptions aggregating nearly a million dollars.
The patriotic enthusiasm Mr. Campbell put into this work proceeds from sources planted deep in his own nature and character, and inherited from a line of ancestry that is no less than illustrious.
Only his more intimate friends are aware that Mr. Campbell is a grandson of the great churchman Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church also known as the Disciples of Christ. Alexander Campbell spent many years in the active ministry in western Pennsyl- vania and the northern part of what is now West Virginia, and among the hills of West Virginia he established Bethany College which has long been famous as a seat of learning and as a place of training for ministers of the Christian church. Alexander Campbell was a son of Elder Thomas Campbell, a Scotch Presbyterian preacher, and a grand- son of Colonel James Campbell, in whose arms General Wolfe died on the Heights of Abraham. Thomas Campbell the poet was a cousin to Elder Thomas Campbell, who married Jane Carnego, a French Huguenot.
While Mr. Campbell's name indicates his Scotch ancestry he is also descended from a mingling of English, Welsh and French stocks. Alex- ander Campbell married Selina H. Bakewell, whose record may be traced through several centuries of English ecclesiastical dignitaries.
Patrick Cochrane Campbell's father was William Pendleton Camp- bell of Bethany, West Virginia, an attorney by profession, and young- est child of Alexander Campbell. William P. Campbell married Nannie Meaux Cochrane of Louisville, Kentucky. Her father Dr. Patrick Henry Cochrane was named for his great-half-uncle Patrick Henry, the Vir- ginia orator and statesman, and through the same line of ancestry is related to two other famous orators, Lord Brougham of England and William Winston of Virginia. Dr. Cochrane was descended from the first Earl of Mar and was related to Admiral Sir Henry Cochrane, who defeated Napoleon's fleet at Basque Roads.
Nannie Meaux Cochrane's mother was Mary Jeanet Meaux, who was of French Huguenot and English ancestry, both Puritan and Cava- lier. She was a descendant of General John Overton who commanded
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Cromwell's army at Hull, and was also related to Nathaniel Bacon, noted in American history as leader of the Virginian rebellion.
The membership he enjoys in the Sons of the American Revolution Patrick Cochrane Campbell derives through his illustrious ancestor Cap- tain John Syme, by whom the first regiment of the American Revolution was armed and equipped. Captain John Syme's father was Colonel John Syme, Jr., and an officer in the Revolution, and his father, Colonel John Syme, Sr., fought in the Colonial wars.
While on the subject of ancestry it is appropriate to include some of the other famous characters found in the direct and collateral lines of Mr. Campbell of Los Angeles. Among them were Richmond Ter- rill, grandson of the Duke of Richmond, therefore of royal blood, and Lady Mary Waters; Hardin Burnley, who was president of the Gov- ernor's Council of the Colony of Virginia and served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgess, as also did other ancestors, Colonel John Syme, Sr., Colonel John Syme, Jr., Nicholas Merriweather, Sher- wood Lightfoot, William Winston, Samuel Overton, Richard Meaux, David Crawford and John Thornton.
Patrick Cochrane Campbell was born at Louisville, Kentucky, July 4, 1871, and acquired his high school education at Wellsburg, in the vicinity of Bethany College, West Virginia. He also attended Ken- tucky University at Lexington and the University of Virginia at Char- lottesville. During his early life he practiced his profession as a civil engineer, at first in the employ of railroads, subsequently on the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal Survey and the Government Survey of the Ohio River. Since 1895 Mr. Campbell's chief business has been the buying and selling of real estate.
He has never been active in politics, is classified as an independent republican, and has strong views and convictions respecting the free, untrammeled liberties of the American people as based upon the fun- damental principles of the Declaration of Independence. He is a thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. A member of the Protestant Episcopal church he is vestryman of St. James church at Los Angeles.
April 27, 1904, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Campbell married Martha Eliza Campbell, daughter of Dr. Albert Preston Campbell and Betty Woodson Coleman. Mrs. Campbell also has an interesting ancestral record, being a descendant of the "First Duke of Argyle." Her pater- nal grandfather Thomas Franklin Campbell of Scotch descent and a native of Louisiana, graduated from Bethany College, Virginia, and gave his life to educational interests. In that cause he became promin- ently known in the State of Oregon, where he spent the latter part of his life. He married Jane Eliza Campbell, who was born at Newry, Ire- land, of Protestant parents and came to America when about fifteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have three children: Albert Preston Campbell, Jr., Argyle Campbell, Jr., and William Pendleton Campbell, Jr.
ANDREW GLASSELL SR. From his arrival in California, in 1852, until his death, nearly fifty years later, Andrew Glassell Sr. was almost constantly busied with his professional and business responsibilities, and enjoyed a career that easily ranked him among the great lawyers of the state.
He was the fourth in direct succession to bear the name Andrew
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Glassell. The first was a Scotchman, and the second founded the family in Virginia. Andrew Glassell was the last survivor of the six children of Andrew and Susan (Thornton) Glassell. He was born in the ances- tral home known as Torthorwald, in Virginia, September 30, 1827. When he was seven years old he was taken to Sumter County, Alabama, where his father became a cotton planter near Livingston. At the age. of seventeen he entered the University of Alabama and was graduated in 1848. On being admitted to the bar he began general practice and soon acquired the friendship and interests of Hon. John A. Campbell, at one time justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1852 Mr. Glassell left Alabama to cast his fortunes with the new state of California. He brought with him a letter from Judge Campbell, and that gave him admission to the bar of the Supreme Court, and he quickly proved himself the possessor of the many high qualities noted in the recommendation. Soon after coming to the state he was appointed a deputy of the United States district attorney at San Francisco. Dur- ing that time he had special duties in connection with handling land cases. After three years in that office he resumed private practice in San Fran- cisco, and continued his profession in that city until the war. Being of Southern ancestry and sympathies, he found it impossible for him to take the test oath, and temporarily closed his law office during the war. While that struggle was going on he engaged in running a steam saw mill and manufacturing lumber and staves near Santa Cruz.
After the war Mr. Glassell resumed his profession, with Los An- geles as his home and headquarters. Here he entered a partnership with Alfred B. Chapman, a friend of his boyhood and at one time an officer in the regular army. For a time the firm was Glassell & Chap- man, and on January 1, 1870, Colonel George H. Smith became a mem- ber, and a later partner was Henry M. Smith, subsequently a judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. In 1879 Mr. Chapman re- tired to his fruit ranch, and later George S. Patton, a nephew of Mr. Glassell, was admitted as a junior partner. In 1883 Mr. Glassell retired to enjoy his declining years in leisure.
During his residence in San Francisco Mr. Glassell married Lucie Toland. Her father, Dr. H. H. Toland, was at one time head of the medical department of the University of California. To their marriage were born nine children: Susan G., who became the wife of H. M. Mitchell, and is now deceased; Minnie G., Mrs. Harrington Brown of Los Angeles ; Hugh ; Andrew ; William T., deceased ; Louise G., widow of Dr. J. DeBarth Shorb, of Los Angeles ; Philip H., deceased ; Alfred L., deceased, and Lucien, deceased.
Mrs. Lucie Glassell was born in South Carolina and was a mere child when brought to California. She died at the age of thirty-nine years. She was a member of the Catholic Church. Six years after her death, Mr. Glassell married for his second wife Mrs. Virginia Micou Ring of New Orleans. She died at Los Angeles in 1897.
Andrew Glassell passed away at his home in Los Angeles January 28, 1901. Of the many tributes paid to his memory, none contains so much of history and of impressive record as a memorial adopted by the Los Angeles Bar Association, and prepared by a committee comprising Stephen M. White, A. M. Stephens, A. W. Hutton, J. R. Scott and J. A. Graves. The following are excerpts from that memorial :
"At all times since the formation of the co-partnership of Glassell & Chapman down to the time of Mr. Glassell's retirement, the firm of
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which he was the head enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He and his co-partners were favorably known throughout the state, and especially in this section, and they were usually retained on one side or the other of every important civil suit tried in this county and vicinity. The records of the several tribunes, state and federal, abound with evidence demonstrating the extent and importance of the litigation so ably con- ducted by and under the supervision of Mr. Glassell. And to these records reference is made as the highest and best evidence of his reputa- tion, worth and ability as a lawyer. Not only was the firm of Glassell & Chapman active practitioners of law, but did much to develop and improve this section of the state. They did not, as so many owners of large tracts of land have done, wait to become rich by and through the enterprise of others, but in all matters calculated to induce emigration and improve Southern California they were foremost. One instance of their deals in real estate may be cited. About 1868 they became the owners of a large tract of land in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. This tract was suhdivided and a large irrigating canal constructed to conduct the waters of the Santa Ana River to farming lands and the town of Richland, which was laid out by them, and the land offered for sale upon terms the most favorable for settlers. This little town ot Rich- land is now the city of Orange. The canal has from time to time been extended and enlarged, until today it forms a large part of the property of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and a portion of the finest system of irrigation in the southern part of the state.
"Mr. Glassell was one of the incorporators and for many years pre- ceding his death was one of the directors of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles. He also took part in the organization of the Los Angeles City Water Works Company in 1868 and continued to be one of its large stockholders. About the same year the firm of Glassell & Chapman acted as attorneys in the incorporation of the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railway Company, by which company the present ratiroad in Los Angeles was constructed. They were the attorneys continuously until the road was transferred to the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- pany, when the firm became local attorneys for the latter company.
"As a lawyer and as a man he was scrupulously honest, direct in his methods, open and frank in all his dealings, and towards the mem- bers of the bar always extremely courteous and affable, but at the same time in the trial of a case bold and vigorous. He was generous and was liberal to the young men who entered the profession through his office, and more than one member of your committee remembers with gratitude his kindness, helpfulness and generosity, and it is most pleas- ing now to remember that in all their intercourse with him they can not recall one single coarse expression or single instance in which even for a moment he laid aside the bearing of a gentleman. He was a sound lawyer, amply versed in the principles of his profession and thoroughly posted as to precedents affecting the questions in hand. He was a safe adviser and practical rather than brilliant. He was not an orator, but always terse, clear and forcible in argument. He was at all times thor- oughly prepared at trial, and in the preparation acted upon the theory that he is the best lawyer who drafts his pleading and other papers so thoroughly as to leave no weak points for the attacks of his adversary. In his dealings with his debtors he was merciful and forbearing, often refusing or remitting the debt when its enforcement might have seemed to be harsh. Each member of your committee has personally known Mr. Glassell for more than a quarter of a century and can without reserva-
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tion attest that they never heard expressed any suspicion of the man. By devotion to his profession and by rare business sagacity he accumu- lated a large fortune, but by far the richest legacy he leaves behind him is the reputation which he earned by a lifelong course of honest dealing in his professional and business career. Notwithstanding his retirement from the practice, his life was a laborious one and full of responsibilities, and is said by one who was near to him in his later days that he was ready to lay down the burdens of life and rest."
ANDREW GLASSELL V, whose business interests at Los Angeles have been chiefly in subdivision and development work, is a son of Andrew Glassell, the distinguished Californian lawyer, whose career has been re- viewed, and his wife, Lucie Goodwin (Toland) Glassell, daughter of the late Dr. H. H. Toland of San Francisco.
Andrew Glassell V was born at San Francisco October 20, 1860. He graduated from the Los Angeles High School in 1879, continued his education by private study, and for two years was a law student., Ill health caused him to abandon his intention of becoming a lawyer, and he retired to the country and became a practical farmer. Mr. Glassell continued farming until about 1906, in which year he put out his first subdivision, "Glassell Park." His business in subdividing continued until 1912, and he still retains a large interest in the Glassell Development Company, and also has three hundred and fifty acres in and near Glassell Park, in the city of Los Angeles, a portion of which, containing one hun- dred and ten acres, he has recently subdivided and put upon the market.
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