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The ideals in art and literature which Mr. Macauley cherished throughout his career are being applied to the creation of pictures. His cartoons have jibed at human follies, fought injustice and oppression and wrung out a tear for human woes. The ambition of greed and the ruth- lessness of power, the problems and perplexities of the everyday man and woman, and the joy of the little child have been the materials with which he has worked in the past and with which he will continue, I am sure, to work in the future.
S. BARTLEY CANNELL. It is rather people of exclusive tastes and desires than the general populace who know and appreciate the Cannell & Chaffin establishment, of which S. Bartley Cannell is president and founder.
Mr. Cannell was born in Liverpool, England, August 8, 1869, and crossed the ocean with his parents at the age of thirteen. After his education he went to work in a stock broker's office, and at the age of nineteen joined the great publishing house of Charles Scribner & Sons of New York City. He remained with that firm as a book salesman until 1899, and then resigned to go into the publishing business for him- self. At Denver, Colorado, he assisted in forming the firm of Tandy & Wheeler Publishing Company, which he served as vice president for three years. He sold his interest in this business in 1905 and moved to San Francisco, where he conducted a publishing and high-class book' business under his own name. The fire and earthquake in 1906 caused him to leave San Francisco, and at that time he came to Los Angeles, where for nearly ten years he studiously endeavored to meet the local requirements as a dealer in all kinds of rare books. He founded the firm of Cannell & Chaffin, Incorporated, in 1916. Besides their book de- partment they have the largest collection of paintings and the most com- plete stock of porcelains and antiques on the Pacific Coast. The location and environment of the firm are in complete keeping with the quality of the business, the building having been especially designed for the purpose.
Mr. Cannell is a York Rite Mason, a life member of the Scottish Rite Consistory and Islam Temple of the Mystic Shrine, is a member of the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, San Gabriel Valley
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Country Club, and a republican in politics. At Los Angeles, November 24, 1905, he married Laila Rosetta Knapp, whose father was George A. Knapp, a prominent Michigan banker. Mr. and Mrs. Cannell have four children: S. Bartley Jr., born September 3, 1906; Joseph Knapp, born August 23, 1907; Philip Shakespeare, born October 6, 1912, and Elizabeth Laila, born December 13, 1915. All the children are natives of Los Angeles and the sons are attending public school.
JOSE DIEGO SEPULVEDA. The Sepulvedas are a fine old family whose names figure prominently in the romantic history of the ancient regime of Southern California and in later generations the name has been one of distinction in connection with the social and material development and progress of this section of the state.
Jose Diego Sepulveda was a son of Dolores Sepulveda, who came from his native Castillian province in Spain to California in the employ of his government, bringing with him his wife, Maria Yquacia Avila, also a native of Spain. The families of both Sepulveda and Avila had provinces in Spain bearing their name. In return for his services Dolores Sepulveda was given the Rancho Palos Verdes, which extended from San Pedro to Redondo.
On this great estate Jose Diego Sepulveda was born in 1813. He later became an heir to the Palos Verdes grant of thirty-nine thousand acres, also owner of the Yncaipa Rancho in San Bernardino county and part owner of the Rancho San Bernardino present site of the city of San Bernardino, which he and other owners sold to the Mormons in 1852.
He was a somewhat conspicuous figure in connection with the historic Los Angeles revolt of 1846-47. He and Serbelo Verela and Ramon Carrillo had been dispatched from the Paderon Blanco with a command of fifty or more men to oppose Wilson and his retainers. Jose Carmen Lugo was already in command of a force of about twenty men on the San Bernardino frontier with instructions to watch the foreigners and he marched with his men to Chino. Lugo claimed to have been the first to arrive at that point and to have been joined late at night by Varela. The Americans were summoned to surrender and it is possible that a few shots were exchanged between the contending forces at this time. Varela promised protection to the Americans as prisoners of war, and the terms were accepted and Wilson and his men after surrendering were soon on their way with their captors to Los Angeles. Sepulveda and his men were in the advance and in charge of most of the prisoners, who were in due time turned over to Flores, eight or ten of the more prominent of the number being held in captivity until January, 1847.
During the remainder of October, 1846, a large part of the Cali- fornia army-at least about a hundred men, were kept in service between Los Angeles and San Pedro, the chief encampment having been at Temple's Rancho of Los Carritos, and a small detachment being estab- lished at the Palos Verdes Rancho of Sepulveda, near the anchorage at San Pedro.
Jose Diego Sepulveda choosing the stock industry as his occupation made the Palos Verdes Rancho his headquarters. He bought and sold " large numbers of cattle, horses and sheep and over the hills for miles in every direction roamed his herds and flocks. Sepulveda handled his vast possessions with keen judgment and great energy, proving himself the inheritor of his father's talent. At the time of his death Sepulveda was fifty-nine years of age. His widow was Maria Francisca Elisalde, member of a prominent San Diego family, whose father was the first
DON JOSE DIEGO SEPULVEDA
MARIA ELISALDE DE SEPULVEDA
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major domo, overseer, of all Mission lands, a government appointment.
At Senora Sepulveda's death she was survived by three of their eleven children, Aurelio W., now deceased, and Raman D. and Rudecinda Florencia (Mrs. James H. Dodson, Sr.), both residents of San Pedro. .
HARRY B. SMITH, who has spent most of his active business career on the Pacific coast, conceived the idea and furnished the initiative for the Pacific Audit and System Company, Incorporated, of which he is president. This is one of the largest private agencies in the country for acting as a clearing house for trained and expert office, executive and technical help. The business is now represented by branch offices in half a dozen of the leading American cities.
Mr. Smith was born at Lima, Ohio, April 30, 1886, son of J. S. Smith. He graduated from high school in 1904, and then followed three months of work as a messenger with the Standard Oil Company. On coming to Los Angeles he continued with the same corporation, but in the capacity of chainman of a surveying gang. After two years he went to San Francisco and became bookkeeper with the Mountain Copper Company, remaining in that work for two years also. He was then office manager and cost accountant for the Crowell Portland Cement Com- pany two years.
It was with this experience that Mr. Smith started the Pacific Audit and System Company at San Francisco. In 1913 the business was in- corporated and Mr. Smith has since been president and general manager. He has developed a high class employment agency, operating what is known as the "Bulletin Abstract System," furnishing capable men and women for all clerical, technical, sales and office positions. In the spring of 1914 the second branch of the business was established at Los Angeles. January 1, 1917, an office was opened at St. Louis under the name Bulletin Abstract System Company. On October 15, 1917, another office was opened at Seattle, Washington, known as the Pacific Audit and Sys- tem Company. April 1, 1918, the same service was extended to Chicago under the name of the Consolidated Agencies. January 1, 1919, a similar office was opened at Cleveland, Ohio, also under the name Consolidated Agencies.
At the present time Mr. Smith has fifty-five people in his employ in the different offices, and the business now constitutes one of the largest expert labor exchanges in the country.
Mr. Smith, whose home for a number of years has been in Los Angeles, is a member of the Jonathan Club. He is independent in politics and a Protestant in religion. At Los Angeles October 19, 1909, he mar- ried Julia Webber. They have one son, Harry B., Jr., born in 1910 and now a student in the public schools.
EDWARD BRANT JONES. One of the best known osteopathic phy- sicians and surgeons is Dr. Edward Brant Jones, who has practiced his profession in Los Angeles since 1910 and is now specializing in urology, skin and rectal diseases, and is professor of genito-urinary and rectal dis- eases and surgery in the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Jones was born at Canton, Ohio, October 30, 1885. His Ameri- canism is of undiluted quality, and his ancestry included the famous John Paul Jones, the great naval hero of the Revolution. His father, Paul D. Jones, was born at Ligonier, Indiana, and when an infant his parents
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moved to Ohio and were very early settlers at Canton. Paul D. Jones graduated from Oberlin College, and for many years was superintendent of the municipal water works of Canton. He died September 14, 1897. His wife, Margaret S. Jones, was born in New York City, and is now living at Long Beach, California.
Dr. Jones acquired his early education in the grammar and high schools of Canton, also attended a business college there, and before tak- ing up the study of osteopathy was employed as a general clerk in a bank at Canton. He graduated in 1910 from the College of Osteopathic Phy- sicians and Surgeons of Los Angeles and in 1913 finished a general medi- cal course in the Pacific Medical College of Los Angeles. During 1912 Dr. Jones served as city health officer of Oroville, California.
In addition to his busy practice he is treasurer of the Cancellograph Company, manufacturers of cancelling machines for use in postoffices. He claims to have been a republican since infancy, and certainly he has not deviated in allegiance from that party since he acquired the right of suffrage. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member and past president of Gamma Chapter of Iota Tau Sigma fraternity, and is a mem- ber of the Culver City Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, and the Optimus Club.
Dr. Jones married at Los Angeles April 4, 1910, Adele Young, daugh- ter of Frank T. Young, a contractor. Her sister, Mrs. Philip Zobelein, has achieved considerable fame as a vocalist. Dr. Jones is proud of his three children, Jean Lorenze, born in 1910, and Philip Curtis, born in 1914, and Barbara Virginia, September, 1920.
JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY; poet, historian and playwright, was born in Foster township, Luzerne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania, August 20, 1862. He is the son of Mary and Hugh Montgomery McGro- arty, his father being a grand-nephew of Gen. Richard Montgomery who was famous as one of Washington's generals in the American Revolution and who fell in the immortal assault on Quebec in 1778.
John Steven was educated in the parochial and public schools of his early home, and later pursued his studies in The Hillman Academy of Wilkes-Barre. At the age of sixteen years he entered the profession of teaching, which he abandoned at the end of three years to take up journalism, serving his apprenticeship on the Wilkes-Barre "Leader," of which he rose to be managing editor.
Taking an active interest in politics, Mr. McGroarty was elected Justice of the Peace the year he obtained his majority, being the youngest man to hold that office in the history of his native state. At twenty-six he was elected to be treasurer of Luzerne County, being also the youngest man ever elected to that office. At the expiration of his term as county treasurer he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar where he practiced law for three years, and then accepted an offer from Marcus Daly, the famous "Copper King" of Montana, to join his legal staff in the moun- tain state where he remained until the time of Mr. Daly's death. He then toured Old Mexico and the southwest, finally locating in California where he became chief editorial writer on the Los Angeles "Times" under the late Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. He held this position for a period of upwards of fifteen years, retiring from its active duties to prosecute special literary work of his own. He is still, however, a member of the staff of "The Times," contributing to its colums as an occasional and not infrequent writer.
Mr. McGroarty's best known books are the two volumes, "California"
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and "Wander Songs," the one a fascinating narrative of the romantic history of the Golden State, and the other a volume of poems. He has also now in press with the publication firm of Doubleday, Page & Com- pany, New York, a new California narrative which will appear under the title of "The High House," and which deals with a phase of history hitherto quite untouched by any other writer.
The one great and doubtless immortal literary production of John Steven McGroarty, however, is the now world-famed "Mission Play," produced for a season every year at Old Mission San Gabriel. The "Mission Play" is declared by Dr. Henry Van Dyke to be the world's greatest pageant drama. It has been visited by hundreds of thousands of people from every part of the globe and its prosperity and popularity increases with each passing year.
Mr. McGroarty's home in California is situated in a lovely nook of the Verdugo Hills, about twenty miles distant from Los Angeles. It is an ideal situation for a writing man, and it is a spot from which the world expects still greater inspirations from its well-beloved poet.
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