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EBENEZER BURR founded and has built up a business which is now one of the chief distributing and producing milk concerns in Los Angeles. Mr. Burr has had a wide and varied experience in business affairs, was at one time a clerk in Los Angeles, and secured his first practical knowl- edge of the dairy industry while living in Oregon.
He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, March 24, 1871, a son of Ebenezer and Annie Burr. He attended grammar school to the age of fourteen, worked on stock farms for three years, and for five years clerked in a dry goods store at Aberdeen. With his parents, he came from Aberdeen to Los Angeles, and in this city was employed a year as clerk for the J. M. Hale & Company dry goods house. Another three years was spent on a ranch near Los Angeles, after which he went to Spokane, Washington, and entered the service of the Hazelwood Cream- ery Company. He was first a driver, then salesman, and finally had charge of the branch of the company at Portland, Oregon.
Mr. Burr, having made a thorough study of the creamery and dairy business, returned to Los Angeles in 1901 and started the Burr Cream- ery Company, of which he has since been president. The first head- quarters of this concern were at the corner of Seventh and Olive Streets, in the Pellissier Block. The business began with a modest capital and equipment and only five employes. In 1906 the city offices were moved to Eighth and Towne Streets, and today the company has a hundred people in its employ, and operates twenty-five automobile delivery ve- hicles. They also have twenty acres near Los Angeles, at Vernon, equipped with a model dairy establishment. There are a hundred head of registered stock besides four hundred grade Holstein cows. A thons- and gallons of pure milk are produced every day at the company's plant. The company also distributes large quantities of milk bought from other producers.
GEORGIA P. BULLOCK. One of the important by-products of a great war is the liberation of ideas and ideals from prejudice and convention.
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Even now the world is viewing without consternation and in fact with approval changes in the economic and social structure which would have been called revolutionary four or five years ago. It is important to remember that while the war has been an actuated force in bringing these changes to the surface, their real cause must be traced much further back and is found in the resolute purpose and unflinching effort of many pioneers who formulated and directed the movement until the propitious time.
In the work which has been done to broaden the sphere of woman's vocational and political opportunity and freedom, one of those most active in Los Angeles has been Mrs. Georgia P. Bullock, herself a prom- inent attorney and one of the pioneers of her profession. In her pro- fessional career she has been actuated not only by an honest ambition to make the best of her talents in the profession but also to blaze the trail for other women to follow and demonstrate that the mental capa- city which admittedly is not less in woman than in man should com- mand the same positions and receive the same honors and rewards. Mrs. Bullock has given her time and energies to become a wholly cap- able lawyer, but through all her work has been guided and stimulated by the thought of what she might do to improve the status of woman in general.
Mrs. Bullock was born in Chicago. That her early training and edu- cation were such as to bring out and develop her best and broadest tal- ents may be inferred from noting briefly the institutions and sources of such education. She attended Von Ende's Private School for Girls in Chicago, Lake View High School, in the same city, the Archdeacon's School for Girls at Swansea, South Wales, England, St. Mary's Academy at Notre Dame, Indiana, had private tutors in foreign languages, was a student in the Chicago Musical College, graduated from the Isaac Wood- bury's Business College and some years ago she graduated from the Col- lege of Law of the University of Southern California, with the degree LL.B. She was admitted to practice law by the District Court of Appeal for the Southern District of the State of California, and was also ad- mitted to practice in the District Court of the United States in and for the Southern District.
Before taking up practice and while a student at the University of Southern California, she was made a voluntary probation officer in the Juvenile Court. She served in that capacity over a year and handled a number of cases. She spent considerable part of one year attending the sessions of the Department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles county devoted to cases of insane persons, in order to make a special study of nervous diseases. She has also done appraisement work in the Probate Department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles county, though she did not devote her time exclusively to that branch.
Mrs. Bullock was twice elected one of the vice-presidents of the National Women Lawyers' Association, particularly representing in that association the interests of the women of the State of California. She has also lectured before numerous organizations in Southern California on the subject of the "Woman's Court" and opportunities for women in the legal profession. Other subjects covered in these lectures pertain particularly to the criminal law. She acted as referee of the Woman's Police Court of Los Angeles for about two years.
Mrs. Bullock has been handling a private practice for seven years. On October 2, 1918, she was sworn in as deputy district attorney of Los Angeles county. The Los Angeles Express referring to that appoint-
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ment said : "Mrs. Georgia P. Bullock, one of the most prominent women menibers of the Los Angeles legal profession was appointed today as a deputy in the district attorney's office, to take the position left vacant by Mrs. Kemper B. Campbell, resigned. Mrs. Bullock is prominent socially. Lives in South Pasadena and has offices in the California Building. In many litigations before the courts of California Mrs. Bullock has figured prominently. Although most of her practice has been confined to civil courts, she has appeared as chief counsel in sev- eral of the most involved criminal cases before the Los Angeles courts in the last few years."
She is a member of the Phi Delta Delta Legal Sorority, the Bar Association of Los Angeles County, the Woman's Professional Club, and the Southern California Woman's Press Club. Mrs. Bullock has two children, Mary Morgan Bullock, aged eighteen, and Percy Wingfield Bullock, aged sixteen. The daughter is studying music under the noted voice teacher and critic Francis Walker. Her voice is being trained for the opera. The son is a student of the South Pasadena High School and his present ambitions are for the law.
OMA L. GRIMSLEY of Los Angeles has had perhaps as wide and diversified an experience in the real Far West as any other resident. He is a man of achievement, and at the same time is one of the younger and more progressive element in the affairs of Southern California.
Mr. Grimsley was born at Jonesboro, Washington County, Ten- nessee, August 23, 1877, and attended public school there to the age of fourteen. The next ten years he spent as a cow puncher in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. At Cripple Creek, Colorado, he achieved his first definite success in the mining field and acquired some valuable property there. At the end of eighteen months he sold out and, remov- ing to Goldfield, bought mining property, "The Goldfield Consolidated." This he later sold at a big profit. He then went to Rawhide and pur- chased other mining property. He did some development work and eighteen months later sold his holdings at a big profit.
In prospecting over the Southwest for another location, Mr. Grims- ley became interested in the district around La Paz, bordering on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. That had been a center for placer gold mining operations for half a century or more. In surveying the Indian Reservation the government in 1876 had run its mine so as to improve the placer field. Then, in March, 1910, the south boundary line was re-established, thus leaving the land open for private holding. Mr. Grimsley, having formed the New La Paz Gold Mining Company, of which he has since been president and general manager, acquired 1,546 acres of the placer lands, not far from Yuma, and immediately began operations for development by hydraulic mining. These opera- tions were halted when, in February, 1912, the government resurveyed the land and re-established it at its original location of 1876. At a cost of many thousand dollars, the company took the case before the Depart- ment of Interior, and in November, 1915, by executive order signed by President Wilson, the property was again freed, and since then the com- pany has been allowed to operate without further official hindrance. According to reports of engineers and other authorities, a hundred forty acres of the tract owned by this company has shown tests of profitable value, and the New La Paz Gold Mining Company has a correspondingly high rating on exchanges where legitimate gold mining stock is sold.
Mr. Grimsley in the meantime has been identified with a number
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of other enterprises. In 1902 he went to South America and spent a year mining in the Andes Mountains. From June, 1905, to October, 1907, he operated the Grimsley Wild West Show, one of the best organizations of its kind.
Mr. Grimsley is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, is a member of the Mines and Oil Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Pike's Peak Summit Motor Club. He is a re- publican in politics. At Santa Ana, California, February 21, 1912, he married Miss Ella M. Herron of Zanesville, Ohio. They have two children, Rose May, born in 1914, and John O., born in 1917.
Mr. Grimsley's parents were James Lofton and Polly (Hulse) Grimsley. His father was born in Washington County, Tennessee, February 11, 1841, and was a Tennessee farmer until 1902. He then spent four years farming and fruit growing in the Rocky Ford com- munity of Colorado, and since then has been owner of a garage at Swink, Colorado.
HORACE G. CATES, a former well-known physician of Santa Monica, and who died March 27, 1911, was one of the founders and until his death an active factor in the C. C. Harris Oil Company, which today is the largest company operating in the old Los Angeles oil fields.
Dr. Horace G. Cates was born at East Vassalboro, Maine, in May, 1863, son of Dr. C. B. Cates, who also came to California and practiced medicine at Santa Monica. Horace G. Cates graduated from Colby University, in Maine, in 1883, being the youngest member of his class. He studied medicine at Minneapolis, Minnesota, graduating from the Hospital College there in 1887. He then began practice at Santa Monica, where, in addition to his professional responsibilities, he entered actively into many business affairs and did much to improve the business district of Santa Monica.
In 1906 Doctor Cates, with C. C. Harris and Alton Cates, organized the C. C. Harris Oil Company. In February, 1909, the business was in- corporated under the same name, with Dr. Cates as president, and C. C. Harris as manager. On the death of Doctor Cates, in March, 1911, his widow, Mrs. Cates, succeeded him as president. In April, 1914, C. C. Harris resigned as manager and director and was succeeded by E. R. Snyder as secretary, general manager and director. Alton M. Cates, a brother of the late Dr. Cates, is now vice president, director and attorney for the company, while C. C. Donnatin is treasurer and director, and C. B. Cates a director. The business is still located where it was estab- lished, at 701 College Street, in Los Angeles. The partners opened their operations by drilling and buying old wells, until at the present time they own one hundred sixteen wells and lease eighteen. They manufacture oil for street and road paving and their wells produce about seven thousand barrels per month.
ALTON M. CATES, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, is also vice president, director and attorney for the C. C. Harris Oil Company, the largest corporation in the Los Angeles oil field.
Mr. Cates was born at East Vassalboro, Maine, June 13, 1872, son of Dr. Charles B. and Margaret B. Cates. He was liberally educated, first attending a private Quaker school, known as the Moses Brown School. At the age of seventeen he entered the University of Minne- sota, graduating in the classical course with the degree A. B. in 1894. He spent the following year in the law department of the same university,
Johanna Jarchov. J.J.J. Jan chan
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and on coming West to Los Angeles, where his parents had located some years previously, he spent one year in the law offices of Bicknell and Trask. He was then admitted to the bar and has practiced law ever since. He has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States and is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Association. On December 1, 1913, he formed the partnership of Cates & Robinson, whose offices are in the Washington Building, at Los Angeles. Mr. C'ates is a republican in politics.
May 18, 1912, at Los Angeles, he married Claire Smith. By a former marriage he has a son, Vincent, who was born at Los Angeles July 20, 1902. Vincent attended the Los Angeles Military Academy and is now a student in Washburn College, at Topeka, Kansas.
JOACHIM H. F. JARCHOW. It is difficult to do full credit in a brief sketch to the life history of the late Mr. Jarchow, who for more than forty years made his home at San Gabriel and during that time gave the best that was in him and of his influence to the growth and welfare of his community. His life story is that of a self-made man, one who came poor and alone to American shores, and exemplified the finest virtues of the pioneer in the conquest of the Middle and the Far West.
He arrived in this country more than sixty years ago, reaching New York with a single dollar in his pocket, one-half of which he spent for his first American breakfast. From humble and inauspicious be- ginnings he made steady progress by force of his industry, integrity and application and honest efforts. In his declining years he enjoyed the fruits of his well spent career at his attractive home at Mission Road and Main streets in San Gabriel, where amid his orange groves and flowers, surrounded by friends and neighbors, he quietly passed away September 21, 1919, when in his ninety-fifth year.
The late Mr. Jarchow was born January 13, 1825, in the northern portion of Germany about fifty miles from the city of Hamburg. He grew up on a farm. At an early age he learned to assume his share of farm duties. As a boy he milked the cows and did other farm tasks fitted to his size and strength. He was eighteen years of age when his father died. Being the oldest of seven children he conscientiously assumed increased responsibilities in looking after the family and re- mained on the home farm until he was nearly thirty years of age. Then, having seen his brothers and sisters come to manhood and womanhood, he determined to seek the greater opportunities of America. October 20, 1853, he sailed from Hamburg on a sailing vessel. After three months on the ocean the boat reached New York harbor January 10. 1854. There he met a friend who supplied him with transportation to Buffalo. At Buffalo he cut wood for a time, and soon found an oppor- tunity to work on a small farm at wages of ten dollars a month and board. He milked cows, looked after the stock and did other farm work. The second year his wages were raised to twelve dollars a month. His next employment was on a large milk farm, where he milked twenty or more cows night and morning. When he tired of this employment he made the next important step in his pioneer progress, going out in Minnesota Territory, and at Stillwater for one year, 1856-57, he worked in a lumber yard. He also took up a government claim. About the time the Civil war began in America he and his three brothers went to a point twenty miles below Memphis, Tennessee, and took a con- tract to cut wood. Soon the trend of fighting moved in their direction and the brothers gave up their enterprise and returned to Minnesota
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where they resumed farming on their claim. Jointly they had a hun- dred twenty acres, most of which they cleared and improved and brought under cultivation. They were stock farmers, and while in Minnesota Mr. Jarchow did much to improve and raise the standard of dairy cows in his district. He and his brothers were the first settlers in their par- ticular locality, and they did real pioner work in laying the foundation of a civilization which later comers enjoyed.
Mr. Jarchow left Minnesota and came to California. in 1876, the centennial year. Tales of the marvelous resources and wonders of the Southwest were being continually read at that time as at present, and Mr. Jarchow finally determined to t. st the words of others by his own personal observation. Selling his Minnesota farm he arrived in San Gabriel, February 28, 1876. At first he rented a small tract but soon bought his home place of ten acres. This land like most of the lands around San Gabriel at that time, was raw and practically unproductive. Once again Mr. Jarchow started in as a pioneer, in a manner repeating what he had done in Minnesota many years previous. He set out an orange grove, from year to year added to the beauty and adornments of his home. While without experience in the growing of citrus fruit, orang › culture seemed to come natural with him, and in the course of time he was regarded as an authority on orange growing in his valley. At an early day he sold his oranges for as high as five dollars a box. One season his oranges were awarded the only gold medal given by the Pasadena Fair. He had many other medals given his crop at fairs and exhibits, and he probably took more satisfaction in the superior quality of his fruit than in the financial profit that he gathered. He was identi- fied with every progressive movement in his locality, being a member of the Grange in early years. He used his influence and co-operated with his neighbors in creating and perfecting the water system for the irri- gation of the lands in his district, and for a number of years served as water superintendent. Throughout his residence at San Gabriel he was known as a stanch friend of education and served his school district very capably as a member of the Board of School Trustees.
Mr. Jarchow was twice married. His first wife was. Miss Sophia Bruck. They were married in Minnesota, in 1862. Her death occurred in San Gabriel, in 1900. Two years later at San Gabriel Mr. Jarchow marri d Mrs. Johanna Kretchmer, widow of Otto Kretchmer and daugh- ter of Henry Lahl. Mrs. Jarchow was born in Germany and came to the United States February 16, 1882.
FRANK P. DOHERTY, who served as a captain and major of infantry with the Ninety-first Division in France, has been known for a number of years in Los Angeles. He has practiced law in California ever since his admission to the bar in 1911.
Mr. Doherty was born at Baltimore, Maryland, August 27, 1885, a son of Edward and Mary (Byrne) Doherty. He was raised in his native state and Virginia. After finishing high school he attended college for one year at Baltimore. He lived for one year in the Panama Canal Zone at the time the government first start. d operations upon the Panama Canal. After returning from the Canal Zone he lived in New York and Arizona, and later moved to Los Angeles. He studied law at the Uni- versity of Southern California, and was graduated in 1911, receiving the degree LL. B. He was associated in practice with Kemper B. Camp- bell until April, 1914, and after that practiced alone until he entered the army.
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In August, 1917, he entered the Second Officers' Training Camp at the Presidio in San Francisco and was commissioned captain of infantry. He was assigned to the Ninety-first Division at Camp Lewis, Washing- ton, and served with the Ninety-first Division continuously, both in the United States and in France. He participated in the San Mihiel drive, September, 1918, and in two phases of the battle of the Meuse-Argonne. He was wounded. near Gesnes, France, October 9, 1918, but was suf- ficiently recovered to rejoin his division November 13, 1918, remain- ing with this organization until demobilization, May 1, 1919. He was commissioned major of infantry October 10, 1918.
Upon returning to Los Angeles he immediately re-entered the prac- tice of the law, and is associated with Leo V. Youngworth, with offices in the Merchants National Bank Building.
Mr. Doherty is a charter member of the American Legion, is a member of the Los Angeles Realty Board, Chamber of Commerce, and Los Angeles Athletic Club, is an Elk, a Knight of Columbus and a republican. He married Sarah E. Patten, a native daughter of Cali- fornia. They have three children, Frank W., born in 1915; James A., born in 1917, and John E., born in 1919.
ARTHUR KEETCH. The city of Los Angeles is the home of many men prominent in the learned professions, and the law is ably repre- sented by practitioners of talent and experience. A leading member of the bar here is Arthur Kectch, who has been an active, useful citizen of Los Angeles for sixteen years, and during that time has achieved eminence at the bar.
Arthur Keetch was born at Birmingham, England, March 15, 1867, and is a son of William and Louise (Hawkes) Keetch. Before he was twenty-one years old he had enjoyed a short period of school attendance, then had gone to sea, and before returning to England had made cruises that encircled the globe and acquired a fund of practical knowledge that in atterlife has not come amiss.
In England he took up newspaper work, and after coming to the United States secured a position as an official reporter on the staff of the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C. He continued for some years his interest in this line of work, and then returned to jour- nalism. Desiring to fit himself for the legal profession, he entered Lake Forest University, Illinois, in 1890, successfully passed his bar examina- tion, and immediately entered upon the practice of law in the city of Chicago. He remained there several years, then moved to Texas and established a practice at Galveston and was appointed city recorder. After eight years of satisfactory practice there, and the building up of pleasant social relations, the great flood that overwhelmed Galveston and disturbed the foundations of normal business for a time was the ca.ise of his removing to New Mexico, and there, with headquarters at Alamo- gordo, he resided until 1902, as assistant attorney for the El Paso & Northeast. rn Railroad. In that year he married, and a year later came to Los Angeles, where he has been in active practice ever since, both c.vil and criminal law.
In 1910 he was appointed deputy district attorney, and served in that capacity with much distinction for a period of eight years. He resigned his official position to enter private practice, but was retained as a special pros. cutor of arson cases by the Board of Fire Under- writers of the Pacific. He also made a special study of automobile law, and in this connection published a brochure entitled "The Motorist and the Law," which has received much favorable comment.
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In October of 1919, Mr. Keetch was appointed deputy attorney general for Southern California, which official position he now occupies.
Mr. Keetch was married in 1902, at Denver, Colorado, to Miss Amber Minerva Yates, daughter of a well-known merchant of Farming- ton, Illinois, and they have one child, Florence, who is attending school. Mr. Keetch is a member of the Los Angeles Bar Association and the California State Bar Association. He is a Mason and an Elk, and is identified with the lodges of these organizations at Pasadena.
WILLIAM M. BOWEN is a lawyer of wide and successful experience, an active member of the California Bar for over thirty years, and achieved his early successes as a result of a tremendous expenditure of energy in combating circumstances that did not permit him to acquire his educa- tion by a comfortable routine.
He was born at Lowell in Lake County, Indiana, January 16, 1862. and in 1870, when he was eight years of age his parents, Peter M. and Chloe (Miller) Bowen moved to Osage County, Kansas, then a frontier Indian district. He lived there four years and in 1874 the family returned to Indiana and located in Jasper County. There Mr. Bowen, while attending school, worked on a farm. In 1876, at the age of fourteen, he went out to Sedgwick County, Kansas, and was busied with farming there until 1880. The following four years he spent farm- ing at Stewartville, in Clinton County, Missouri, where in the summer of 1884 he sold all of his earthly belongings on time, and in September, 1884, arrived in California and located near Niles, where he soon was enrolled as a student in Washington College. Shortly after entering college his creditor in Missouri went through bankruptcy and left him without a penny. He was determined to get an education ; to pay his board and tuition, he worked every day on the college farm from seven o'clock in the morning until noon, attending his classes in the afternoon, and from eight o'clock in the evening until eleven done janitor work.
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