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Edwin Tobias Earl was born on a farm near Red Bluff in the Sacramento Valley of California in 1858, and died January 2, 1919. His parents, Josiah and Adelia T. Earl, were pioneers of the state and his father a fruit farmer. They moved from Red Bluff to Oakland, where Edwin Earl received a high school education until he was eighteen years old. He left school to become associated with his father in the fruit shipping business. At that time California fruits were hardly known in the east. Strange as it may seem to the modern generation, the eastern markets were supplied with oranges grown either in Florida or on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. To ship California fruits across
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the continent was deemed impracticable, and what fruit was shipped was sent principally in passenger coaches at an almost prohibitive price, and with excessive losses due to lack of provision in transit against extremes of heat and cold. In 1876, when eighteen years old, Edwin T. Earl crossed the continent on a freight train with two cars loaded with grapes, the train being sixteen days en route. These cars were a type of re- frigerator car then in use. While this pioneer shipment demonstrated the feasibility of transporting the fruit two thousand miles and getting it to market in satisfactory condition, there were many other problems to be solved. One of the first was to overcome the reluctance of the trans- portation companies to handle this class of freight. For nearly ten years the railroad companies showed no inclination to encourage long dis- tance fruit traffic, and in fact frequent obstacles were placed in the way of Mr. Earl. Up to 1886, as head of the Earl Fruit Company, he had con- fined his efforts largely to marketing the deciduous of Central California. In 1886 he turned his attention to the citrus fruits of Southern Cali- fornia. The ventilated fruit car furnished by the railroads would not protect the fruit from freezing, and the only other cars available were ordinary refrigerator cars, which, to a certain extent, would protect the fruits from freezing but at the western end of the journey oranges re- quired ventilation and ordinary refrigerator cars would not provide it. The methods of packing California oranges in 1886 were crude. It was neces- sary to introduce new methods of picking, packing, loading and selling Cal- ifornia oranges, and he also had the transportation to contend with. These difficulties occupied a large portion of his attention for several years, and in 1890 he invented the first successful combination ventilator-refrigerator car used in transportation of California fruits. Since that time the "Earl Fruit Car" has been accepted and adopted as the vehicle of perfection for transporting perishable fruits long distances. In the meantime the Earl Fruit Company had become the largest fruit packing and shipping concern in California. It was Mr. Earl's intention to provide his ventilator- refrigerator car merely for the Earl Fruit Company. The demand, how- ever, for the car was so great that he developed its manufacture and ownership as a distinctive business, known as the Continental Fruit Express, the cars of which for years have been operated on every rail- road that handles fruit shipments and have been used for the transporta- tion of Florida oranges and other southern fruits as well as California products. In the course of time this company was operating about two thousand ventilator-refrigerator cars, representing an investment of two million dollars. In 1900 Mr. Earl sold this industry to Armour & Com- pany, and with that deal brought to a conclusion the long commercial fight which he had waged with the big packers.
This was the first phase of his strenuous life, comprising a period of over twenty-five years. It brought him a fortune, but of much more importance both to himself and the world was the constructive service rendered. While he would have been fully justified in devoting his sub- sequent years to the enjoyment of a well earned leisure, Mr. Earl still felt that he had work to do. In 1901 he bought the Los Angeles Express, and until the day of his death was, as his colleagues attest, not only its owner, but in every real sense its editor. The members of the editorial staff of the Express who had longest been associated and had most to do with expressing the views of Mr. Earl said: "It was for him something more than a piece of property; it was the living instrument through
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which good might be accomplished, of value to him only as it served the common welfare. He held himself to be charged with a moral trust in respect of its policies, answerable in conscience for the fidelity where- with that trust was maintained. In consequence he was intensely active in his direction of the conduct of the "Express," giving to both the business and editorial management of the paper an attention that reached to the smallest detail as searchingly as to the most important subject."
Liberal minded men through California know how fully the "Ex- press" under Mr. Earl's ownership and management realized their own ideals of what a great newspaper should be and should stand for. As an editor Mr. Earl advocated warmly and with great strength many policies and movements during the last eighteen years, but he came as near to escaping the faults of partisanship as it is possible for mortal . judgment to do. As a wealthy man who had won his wealth cleanly and legitimately he was free to be a real independent and fight unrelent- ingly in behalf of progress and decency in city, state and national life, and it is only due to say that the Express both in its literary tone and policies exemplified some of the best ideals of American journalism.
Mr. Earl was long interested in politics for the sake of good gov- ernment. A republican, he recognized the critical issues that confronted that party in the year 1912, and was one of the first prominent republi- cans in California to advocate the formation of a new progressive party to express the real will of the people and the common instrument of officiency in carrying out that will. Mr. Earl was one of the advisors of Governor Stephens and was credited with having had the chief influence upon Governor Johnson when the latter selected Mr. Stephens to succeed him upon his resignation as governor to take his seat in the Senate.
Edwin T. Earl married Miss Emily Jarvis, of a prominent Kentucky family. Mrs. Earl survives him, with four children : Jarvis. Emily and Edwin, twins, and Chaffey.
CHARLES WINTHROP FISH, M. D. A physician and surgeon at Los Angeles for a quarter of a century, the late Dr. Fish was one of the founders of the Pacific Hospital and among his professional associates and the large clientage he served was regarded as one of the foremost gynecologists in Southern California.
Dr. Fish, who died in November, 1919, gained distinction not only for his technical skill, but for the constant expression of a beautiful and kindly character. He was fifty-nine years of age at the time of his death. The family home where he was born, July 23, 1860, was known as The Hermitage, near Sharon, Pennsylvania. His father was Ezra Fish. Dr. Fish acquired his early education in Western Pennsylvania, graduated with the Master of Arts degree from Allegheny College in 1882, and subsequently finished his preparation for the medical profession in Western Reserve University at Cleveland. He began practice at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and followed that with an extended course in Vienna and other European centers. On coming to Los Angeles in 1894, he continued to work as a general practitioner, but later specialized in gynecology.
Dr. Fish was a member of all the County and State Medical So- cieties, and at the time of his death was vice president of the Board of the Pacific Hospital. He was a republican in politics, a member of the
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college fraternity Delta Tau Delta, was a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and a member of the Jonathan, University and Los Angeles Country Clubs. At the time of his death he was a member of West Adams Presbyterian Church.
The love and esteem paid him were the result of a rich composite of personal traits and characteristics. He possessed keen sense of humor, a quaint kindliness and both in and out of his profession radiated constant influence for good and a wise and considerate charity.
Dr. Fish married in 1894 Miss Catherine Goodfellow of Oakland, sister of Dr. George Goodfellow. Her people were California forty- niners, her father coming with his family across the plains, while the mother's family came by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Mrs., Fish died in 1912. In 1915 Dr. Fish married Mrs. Edith Goodfellow Harvey, who survived him. He also left two sons by his first marriage, Farnum Thayer and George Winthrop Fish, the latter now studying medicine in New York City.
OSTEOPATHY IN CALIFORNIA. The general recognition now paid osteopathy as a science and with the broadening scope of its practice it is appropriate that something should be said of the history of osteopathy in California. Many people in California would hardly recognize osteo- pathy as a new school of medicine, since it has had a following in this state for over twenty years.
The first organized effort to establish a college was made in May, 1896, at Anaheim. This resulted in the incorporation of the Pacific Sanitorium and School of Osteopathy, the headquarters being established in the Del Campo Hotel Building at Anaheim.
This institution was the second of its kind in the world antedated only by the parents school at Kirksville Missouri. A publication was issued in July of the same year entitled "The Osteopath," which served as official organ of the college. The school was later reorganized and transferred to Los Angeles, where quarters were secured in the Phillips Block, Spring and Franklin streets, in May, 1897.
The new therapeutic arrival rapidly gained public notice and approval in the community. Evidence of this is found in the necessity for en- larged quarters. June 6, 1898, there was established the Pacific School of Osteopathy and Infirmary at Tenth and Flower streets.
With the wide divergence of views and practices then extant in the several established schools of medicine there developed an organized opposition to the osteopath practitioner by these various factions. The profession endeavored to meet this situation by appropriate legislation. A bill was drafted and introduced in the State Legislature February 3. 1899. The bill was promptly buried in committees. On June 6th of the same year the first state association was organized, with Dr. A. H. Potter president.
The changing complexion of medical thought throughout the world at this period wrought considerable modification in the curricula of all medical teaching institutions. Discoveries in the allied basic sciences added much to the knowledge of the therapeutic world. The osteopathic college was quick to seize upon and incorporate these newer discoveries in its curriculum, resulting in a marked accretion to the esablished course of studies. During this period the profession within the state was efficiently organized in support of legislation and the upholding of edu- cational standards. The fruit of this endeavor was the passage of a
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law in 1901, giving legal recognition to the science, and providing for a state osteopathic examining board, of which Dr. Dain L. Tasker was appointed president. December 3, 1901, was organized the first county association of the Los Angeles County Osteopathic Society.
In 1904 came another period of expansion and reorganization of the teaching institution, resulting in the Pacific College of Osteopathy, estab- lished in its own building at Mission Road and Daly Street. The fol- lowing year saw the advent of the second osteopathic college on the Pacific Coast, the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, with Dr. Harry W. Forbes president.
The first number of the "Western Osteopath" was published in San Francisco May 1, 1907, Dr. W. W. Vanderburgh as editor. This gave the profession an official organ for the further upbuilding of its forces. At this time a situation was developed requiring further legis- lative effort as a result of a court decision in 1906, declaring the Osteo- pathic Law unconstitutional. The outgrowth of this was the passage of a law establishing a composite state board of medical examiners, which was put in effect May 2, 1907.
The first national osteopathic convention to be held on the Pacific Coast was conducted in San Francisco August 2, 1910, with the Bay Osteopathic Association acting as host.
The ever broadening aspect of the medical and allied sciences made necessary a further change in the state medical law. The act of 1913 established a minimum four year course for all recognized medical teach- ing institutions within the state, and which aimed to do away with the differentiation between the several separate schools of practice.
In 1914 came a further change in the educational development of the science as the result of a consolidation of the two colleges. This amalgama- tion brought into being the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Sur- geons, with a central location in Los Angeles, and an augmented staff- thus adding materially to the efficiency of osteopathic educational facilities within the state. Another item of progress was recorded in the estab- lishment in 1916 of attendance at clinics and the opening of internships in the Los Angeles County Hospital to osteopathic students.
THOMAS O. TOLAND is a member of the prominent Los Angeles law firm of Andrews, Toland, Gregg & Andrews. His professional record in California is a long and enviable one and has made him widely known over the state. He is one of the oldest students of the Hastings College of Law and has been a member of the California bar over thirty years.
Mr. Toland was born at Bluff Springs, Clay county, Alabama, Sep- tember 13, 1856, a son of James and Mildred Ann (Street) Toland. He grew up in Alabama, acquiring his early education in the common schools and at the Munford Academy, Andrew McDonald, president. In January, 1874, he entered the University of Virginia, remaining one term, and in the fall of the same year entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn in his native state.
Coming to California in January, 1875, he immediately entered the University of California at Berkeley. He was prominent in student activities, being editor of the "Besom," a University paper, in 1876, and in 1877-78 was editor-in-chief of the "Berkeleyan," which he changed from a college paper to a college magazine. He graduated from the Literary Department of the University with the class of 1878, receiving
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the degree Bachelor of Arts. This was followed with the law course of Hastings College at Law and admission afterward to the California bar by the Supreme Court at Los Angeles. He has also practiced before the United States Courts, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States December 15, 1910.
Between these dates he had a long and varied experience not only as a lawyer but as a teacher and worker. After leaving the University of California he was employed in the grocery business by R. G. Huston at Berkeley, and was a law clerk and student in the office of George D. Shadburne in San Francisco in 1878. In 1880 he taught mathematics in Brewer's Military Academy at San Mateo, was in charge of San Anselmo grammar school in Marin county in 1880-81, and worked in law offices and studied law during 1881-82, following which he again taught school from 1882 to 1886 at Hueneme and Santa Paula in Ventura county. He opened his first law office and also engaged in real estate at Santa Paula as a member of the realty firm of Guiberson & Toland in 1886. The same year the realty firm became Toland & Baker, and so continued until May, 1890, when he removed to San Buena Ven- tura, the county seat, to engage in law practice alone. He acquired the library, office and station of Hon. Lemuel C. McKeeby, who had removed to Los Angeles.
From 1893 to 1895 Mr. Toland was district attorney of Ventura county ; was city attorney of San Buena Ventura in 1896-98; represented the Sixty-fifth District in the State Assembly in 1897-99; and from 1899 to 1903 was a member of the State Board of Equalization from the Fourth Equalization District. He did some notable work while serving on this board. In 1896 he supported George S. Patton against L. J. Rose, Sr., in the celebrated contest for the democratic nomination for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, which then included Los Angeles and the counties south. During the period 1884 to 1896 Mr. Toland was a member of the Board of Education of Ventura county. In 1906 he was the democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of California, and took the highest popular vote given a democratic candidate for that office in twenty-five years.
In March, 1910, he removed to Los Angeles to become associated with Lewis W. Andrews in the practice of the law. That association has developed into the present firm of Andrews, Toland, Gregg & Andrews, and the firm has been in charge of the legal department of the Union Oil Company of California since 1910.
Mr. Toland is a member of the various Masonic bodies, including Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Odd Fellow, having been a member of Santa Paula Lodge No. 314 since 1884. He is a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Cali- fornia ; in politics is a democrat, and is a member of the Los Angeles County and the California State Bar associations, and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
August 16, 1900, he married Miss Carrie Anna Fleisher, of Santa Paula, California. She is a graduate of the State Normal School of Los Angeles and a member of the Eastern Star and the Ebell Club.
JOHN G. BULLOCK. Travelers the world over find men and women who have heard and remembered the name-"Bullock's, Los Angeles." It is associated with achievement, not alone in the matter of "Merchandise of Character," but also in that it is an organization which is in the van-
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guard of modern business. The story of Bullock's is the story of the character and idealism of a man who knows his fellow men-John G. Bullock.
When the snow was on the ground, man-deep; when the cold and bitter winds whipped across the plains, John G. Bullock was born. The day was January 14, the year 1871, and the place Paris, Ontario, Canada. Something of the hardiness of the North was in his blood, and something also of its clean, irresistible force and integrity.
His father belonged to that type of the pioneer English, at once constructive and daring. His mother was of sturdy Scotch, rich in faith, strong in the love of her husband and her family. They have their place among the deep, shrewd, practical men and women who are the backbone of humanity. John G. Bullock was like his parents in that, but he had in addition a certain faculty which was to take him high and far in the world. "A Practical Idealist" he has been called, and it is most certainly true that he has created an organization which very nearly approaches the ideal.
There is a kind of genius that expresses itself in the ability to set men free. Such genius is rare. Indeed, when one comes to think of it, it is a question whether or not all genius has, as one of its attributes, the capacity to set others free, whether it be through music, through painting, or through that which is among the most exacting and ethical of the arts-modern business. Human beings are hemmed about with various kinds of restraining influences, most of them being their own fears. To this type of human being, whether man or woman, the business genius holds open the right door, and the timid one finds himself-finds that place in his consciousness where the creative instinct lies ; he finds his courage, his initiative and the depths and heights of his own abilities which immediately begin to grow and expand like a plant in good soil. Therein lies Mr. Bullock's genius. He knows how to take advantage of the love of the human soul for freedom. It is rare knowledge indeed, the newest and the most powerful of the truths that are slowly dawning upon the minds of American masters of finance.
Perhaps it was because his father died when Mr. Bullock was but two years of age that he set out to become independent when he was only eleven. Among other bits of work he secured was that of driving a delivery wagon. At fourteen he had settled down to regular work, still as a clerk and driver for the neighborhood grocer. For a few months he tried operating an electric light plant, and for six months he was in the pattern shop of an iron foundry, but mostly he stuck to his grocery wagon, and it is quite possible that he was drawn to that work because it offered an opportunity for contact with human nature and the chance to be out-of-doors.
But all this time his ambition prodded-and California called. California seemed to his youthful imagination a place where a man might realize his dreams, and so in 1896 he bade his mother farewell and came to the Golden State. We next find him as a salesman in a Los Angeles store ; in another three months as its buyer and manager, and in 1899 its superintendent, during which year he was married.
He organized Bullock's of Los Angeles, opening its doors on March 4, 1907, with 450 employees. Since then his life has been that of a successful man. He is now president of the board of trustees of the Westlake Presbyterian Church, a trustee of Occidental College, a director
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of the Young Men's Christian Association, a member of the Merchant's and Manufacturer's Association, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the Athletic Club. He is a republican.
His city home is at 627 South Ardmore Avenue, but he has com- pleted a circle in that home in the country where he lives now, whenever possible, his country place, "Brae Side," at La Canyada. He has also a large ranch at Etiwanda which comprises 1500 acres, much of it devoted to fruit-grapes, melons and oranges. His grapes are a very special source of pride, being among the finest shipped to eastern markets. His ranch, like the big store which bears his name, reflects his great, kindly presiding spirit in its orderly efficiency and scientific manage- ment.
His mother has always exercised a most profound influence upon the life of Mr. Bullock. Indeed, she has lived again in him-realized her ambitions through him and centered her affections on him. He has responded with a devotion so powerful that it has colored the conduct of his entire life. It has been said that he has never failed to write to her once each week-a statement which carries its own full meaning.
Always devoted to his family, his home life is one of real happiness. His wife is to him truly an inspiration and an ideal. A gracious and charming woman, she shares with him and their children an intense love for their home. There are four children: Edwin, a graduate of Pawling Preparatory School and now at Williams College; Margaret, a graduate of the Westlake School for Girls, later a student at Occidental, and now at Pine Manor, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Ruth and Helen, both in the Westlake School for Girls.
Through his rare knowledge of character, as well as through his keen business instincts, Mr. Bullock has created an elastic organization in his store capable of endless expansion. The spirit of reaching upward -the tendency toward having an ideal and striving to achieve it is found, not alone in the merchandise but amongst Bullock workers. Con- sciously or unconsciously, they are imbued with a desire to serve-to serve those who are customers and to serve each other. Service and courtesy and helpfulness-high words, indeed, if men truly live up to them as Bullock workers do. In some strange occult fashion those who work for a man interpret his character to the world. The man behind Bullock's must be one of great excellence of character to impart so fine a spirit of wide and generous tolerance-of loving kindness and invincible in- tegrity to the administration of the store which bears his name.
ROBERT B. MORAN, who established his professional offices in Los Angeles in 1916, is widely known as an expert geologist and mining engineer, and has had a wide scope of experience and association in some of the leading industrial corporations on the Pacific Coast.
He was born in Madison County, Kentucky, December 31, 1879. When he was six years of age his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Moran, came from Kentucky to San Luis Obispo, California, and there he re- ceived his first advantages in the public schools. Later he attended high school at Berkeley and Oakland, and at the age of eighteen went abroad and spent a year in Europe. On returning to California he entered Leland Stanford University and graduated, having specialized in geology and mining engineering. Mr. Moran was connected with the Southern
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