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On November 29, 1898, Mr. Frost was married in East Jordan, Michigan, to Miss Ottie Renard and they have one daughter, Virginia, nine years of age, who is attending the Bishop private school. The family are well known in social circles of the city and Mr. Frost lias extensive club affiliations, belonging to the Cuyamaca, San Diego Country and Coronado Country Clubs. He is interested in aviation and has done much to promote and support this science in San Diego by his membership in the Aero Club. His political beliefs are republican but he is never active in public affairs as an office seeker. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Panama. He is a man who has always exercised a wide influence in financial circles of the city. His career has been inspired by landable ambition, enterprise and aggressiveness and these qualities have won hin prosperity and placed him among the foremost citizens of the county.
R. H. ANDERSON.
R. H. Anderson is one of the prominent manufacturers of southern Cali- fornia, being the inventor and sole owner of the Anderson wall bed, and in meeting the sale thereof he has established and conducts a plant of extensive proportions. Mr. Anderson is a native of the state of Maine. He left New England in 1895, going thence to Cuba and subsequently to Hawaii, where he owned a plantation. In 1907 he came to San Diego and established the busi- ness of which he is now the head. His experiments have resulted in per- fecting what is known as the Anderson wall bed, which he has patented and placed upon the market. This meets a popular demand at a time when congested dis- tricts with limited room call for the wise utilization of every inch of space. Moreover, the Anderson bed can be made a decorative feature of every home. These beds turn into the wall, thus being out of the way in the daytime, yet they combine also every feature of utility and comfort known to the open bed. They are sold with the guarantee of good workmanship and will be kept in order for five years from the day of installation. Not an ounce of cast iron is used in any portion of any supporting or working part of the bed, which is built throughout of steel with every bolt riveted where possible. Every model manufactured is fully covered by patents and although other manufacturers have contested the validity of several of these during the past four years, each
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one has stood the test with flying colors. Mr. Anderson is giving close study to the needs and demands of the present day, putting new and improved pro- ducts upon the market to meet changing conditions, and he is now manufac- turing a greater variety of models than any other concern on the coast. Be- cause of this great variety he can supply the one best adapted for the require- ments of any particular room or space. He has extensive shops well equipped with all latest machinery used in his manufacturing interests and the output is constructed according to methods devised, planned and patented by Mr. Anderson. The business has grown continuously and has reached gratifying and extensive proportions. It is a monument to the enterprise, inventive genius and business capacity of the founder and promoter.
THE WHITING-MEAD COMMERCIAL COMPANY.
The stable prosperity and substantial growth of every community depend upon the character and importance of its representative business institutions, upon the policies under which they are managed and the ability of the men who control their expansion. Therefore, the city of San Diego is fortunate in having within its borders so reliable, conservative and intelligently conducted an enter- prise as the Whiting-Mead Commercial Company and in numbering among its citizens such able and far-sighted business men as E. A. Kavanagh, its secretary.
The Whiting-Mead Commercial Company of San Diego is a branch of the Whiting Wrecking Company and the Whiting-Mead Commercial Company of Los Angeles, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the United States west of Chicago. It is controlled by two alert and enterprising young business men of the modern school, able, resourceful and aggressive, who understand fully modern business methods and how to make their way against existing conditions. Mr. Whiting, the senior member, is a splendid example of the self-made man of the west, for he commenced at the bottom round of the ladder and by the strength of his determined will, his industry and the force of his personality has won prominence and success and made his name known in many states as a synonym for honor in business and straightforward dealing in all the relations of life. The business manager of the home office and junior partner in the concern is W. H. Mead, also an alert, enterprising and progressive young man, whose personal popularity has supplemented his keen ability and forcefulness in the development of his success. The company does a large business, which is continually increas- ing in volume and importance, employing in their various departments over two hundred and twenty-five men.
The San Diego branch of this great concern is in charge of a man ideally fitted by ability, experience and personal characteristics for this difficult position. E. A. Kavanagh is local business manager and secretary, with charge of sixty- two men in his office. He is ably assisted by Mr. Saint, superintendent of stores and warehouses, with headquarters on the northeast corner of First and G streets, and by E. Cresswell, who conducts the plumbing department. The lat- ter is well known in San Diego as an expert in his line of work and has made the branch under his charge profitable and up-to-date in every particular. The
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lumberyards and planing mills are situated at the foot of Sampson street and a stock of over five million feet of lumber is carried. As a business man Mr. Kavanagh is known as one of the most able in San Diego, for he possesses that executive force and power of control necessary to make ability effective. More- over, he has an unusual capacity for hard work and a rare power of concen- tration, and his offices are the scene of many interesting and hard fought business battles, in which the demands made upon his coolness, his resourcefulness, his judgment and shrewdness are fully met and paid.
CAPTAIN RUFUS M. CRESWELL.
One of the greatest individual forces in the promotion and development of water traffic interests around San Diego and in the spread of freight and pas- senger navigation is Captain Rufus M. Creswell, president of the Point Loma Ferry Company and the owner of a large and important line of boats operating on San Diego bay between various points in this vicinity. He is one of the men who base success upon long identification with a particular line of work and upon special training in an occupation for which they have a predilection and he has so studied conditions and standards as they have affected water traffic that he is recognized as an authority on details and methods. He was born in Louisa county, Iowa, September 9, 1849, a son of Ebenezer and Avis (Potter) Creswell, and as a child went with his parents across the plains to Oregon. The journey was made in 1852, in pioneer times, when danger lurked at every point of the trail, when Indians were numerous and buffaloes grazed in large herds upon the plains. The Creswell family were six months upon the journey, which they made with ox teams, and they finally settled in Port- land, Oregon, where Captain Creswell of this review received his education. At an early age he engaged in steamboating on the Columbia river and the first vessel which he bought was the sternwheel steamer Hydra, which he put into the freight and passenger traffic. After some time he bought an iron tug, the first of its kind ever run on Puget Sound, and he brought this down the river to Kalama, where he put it on board the Northern Pacific Rail- way and transferred it to Tacoma and from there to Puget Sound, upon which he operated it for a number of years. With this vessel and with various others Captain Creswell built up a flourishing business in passenger and freight steamboating and he remained upon Puget Sound for fifteen years. He was the first man to carry mail for the United States government between Seattle and the present site of the Bremerton Navy yard. For some time he con- ducted a wood yard on the site of the United States Navy yard for the use of his boats. In November, 1892, he left Oregon and came to San Diego. where he purchased ten acres of land on Point Loma. His business discrimi- nation and sound judgment are evidenced by the fact that this property is now one of the most valuable tracts in this part of California and is being divided into town lots under the name of the Warner Villa tract.
However, Captain Creswell had been in San Diego only one year when he resumed his former occupation and has since gained prominence and prosperity
RUFUS M. CRESWELL
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as a boat owner and operator. He first bought a small iron boat called the Hercules, which he ran as a passenger vessel between San Diego and Ballast Point for five years. At the end of that time he added another boat to his line. This vessel, the Point Loma, was later chartered by the government to carry supplies to Fort Rosecrans, which was then in process of construction. As Captain Creswell's business expanded and his financial resources increased he bought other boats and now owns eight vessels operating on San Diego bay. They are called the Golden West, the Fortuna, the Point Loma, the Dol- phin, the Comet, Biz, Bee and Owl. One of these boats operates between San Diego and the Coronado islands in Mexico but the others are all in local freight and passenger navigation. Aside from his professional duties Captain Cres- well was for seven years captain of the United States government boat Gen- eral De Russy, which runs to Fort Rosecrans. This position he has now resigned and gives his entire attention to his personal affairs. He built and owns his own dock at the foot of H street in San Diego and has besides two private docks at Point Loma. He is president of the Point Loma Ferry Com- pany and was the first man to run a ferry to that point.
Mr. Creswell was married November 18, 1892, to Mary Etta Settle, a daughter of Dr. Josiah and Mary Etta (Hondyshell) Settle. Dr. Settle was one of the pioneers of Oregon, settling near Portland in 1849, whence he had come from Indiana, driving across the plains with ox teams. They removed to Seattle in 1860 and were again among the very early settlers of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Creswell have four children, Lena N., Avis, Oakley and Alice.
`Captain Creswell is connected with Seattle Lodge, No. 7, I. O. O. F., but beyond this has no fraternal affiliations. Although he came to San Diego when the city was well established in its industrial, social and trade relations, he was nevertheless a pioneer in his particular line of work and not only a pioneer but a developer and promoter. To him the city owes the establishment of a most important trade interest and the spread of its local navigation, so that he is justly numbered among the city's builders.
NOLTLEY S. HAMMACK.
For twenty-three years or since 1889 Noltley S. Hammack has been an active representative of the San Diego bar and that he is gradually advancing step by step is due to his studious habits, to his understanding of the demands of the profession and his laudable ambition to attain success therein. He was born at Keithsburg, Illinois, October 3, 1855, and is a representative of old southern fam- ilies, his grandparents having been Daniel and Mary A. (Dodson) Hammack, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Kentucky. Their son Ephraim Hammack wedded Mary Amanda Mosely, a daughter of Churchill P. and Fran- ces A. (Chastain) Mosely. The ancestry of this family can be traced back to French Huguenots who fled from the north of France during the Huguenot per- secutions.
While spending the days of his boyhood and youth in the Mississippi valley Noltley S. Hammack supplemented his early educational opportunities by a
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course of study in the Baptist College at Burlington, Iowa, in which he com- pleted his course and was graduated with the class of 1879. He then turned his attention to journalism and during the two succeeding years was city editor of the Burlington Gazette. But he regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor and when his reading had made him sufficiently familiar with the principles of jurisprudence to pass the required examination for the bar he sought admission at Burlington and was licensed to practice in 1881. In that year he was chosen justice of the peace there and capably filled the office for seven years or until 1888, his decisions being strictly fair and impartial owing to the fact that they were based upon both the law and equity in the case. Mr. Hammack was active as a practitioner before the Burlington bar until 1888 and the following year came to San Diego where he has since remained. Advancement in the law is proverbially slow. The young lawyer must enter into the keen competition with the older established and experienced practitioner and must give proof of his ability to cope successfully with the intricate problems of the law. This Mr. Hammack has done. For almost a quarter of a century he has resided in San Diego and the court records attest his ability by the many favor- able verdicts that he has gained. He now has a distinctively representative client- age and his devotion to the interests of those whom he serves in a professional capacity has become proverbial.
Mr. Hammack has an interesting military chapter in his life record covering service with Company B of the Seventh Regiment of the National Guard of California, in which he was corporal. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and he has labored earnestly and indefatigably for its success yet not with the hope of being rewarded with official preferment. He recognizes the duties and obligations of citizenship and always keeps well informed on the questions and vital interests of the day.
On the 29th of December, 1881, occurred the marriage of Mr. Hammack and Miss Mary Bramhall, a daughter of J. H. and Henrietta Bramhall. To them have been born four children, Edwin B., Edith C., Isabella S. and Noltley S., Jr. Mr. Hammack's fraternal relations are with the Ancient Order of Foresters and the American Order of Foresters, and he has been financial secretary and chief ranger in each. The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian church and their influence is always given on the side of progress, reform and improvement. The high ideals which Mr. Hammack has cherished have found embodiment in practical effort for their adoption and in San Diego where he is widely known he is held in the highest esteem by reason of his many sterling qualities.
CHARLES EDWIN MARSH, M. D.
Comprehensive college training and practice have well qualified Dr. Charles Edwin Marsh for the active and arduous duties connected with the preservation and restoration of health. During the years of his residence in San Diego he has gained a large practice and in his professional ministrations he follows the
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advanced scientific methods of several schools. He was born in Rochester, New York, on the 16th of May, 1862, a son of Benjamin F. and Sarah S. (Smith) Marsh, who were pioneer members of the Greeley colony of Colorado in 1870, removing westward from their native state of New York.
Dr. Marsh was largely reared in Greeley and completed his preliminary education in the high school there. He afterward attended the Electro-Ther- apeutic College at Lima, Ohio, and later entered the California Medical College at San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Naturopathic College at Los Angeles and has won the degrees of Master of Electro-Therapeutics and Doctor of Naturopathy. He arrived in San Diego on a visit in May, 1887, and from that year until 1890 was a resident of Pasadena, California. In the latter year he removed to Salt Lake City, where he remained until 1893, when he returned to San Diego, where he has since engaged in practice. His professional patronage is now large, having been won by reason of the skill which he has displayed in meeting the needs of suffering humanity.
Dr. Marsh was married at Cheyenne, Wyoming, January 31, 1886, to Miss Jennie E. Marslı, a daughter of Clark M. Marsh, and to them has been born a daughter, Alpha Belle, the wife of Frederick Bernard Cary. The military chapter in the life history of Dr. Marsh covers service as first sergeant with the National Guard of Colorado, from which he was honorably discharged in 1887. He has attained high rank in the Knights of Pythias as a past chancellor of the local lodge and has been a member of the grand lodge of California. He joined Greeley Lodge, K. P., on its organization in 1886 and he belongs also to Chapul- gas Tribe of Red Men at San Diego, the Modern Sons of America and the Knights of Malta. He was for many years a member of the uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, and served as treasurer and second sergeant of San Diego, Chevalier Company, No. 6. Along professional lines he is vice president of the association of Naturopathic Physicians of California, to which office he was elected in October, 1912. The twenty years of his residence here have brought him a wide acquaintance and a well deserved professional reputation and throughout the city he has many warm friends.
C. C. VALLE, M. D.
Dr. C. C. Valle, a prominent and successful representative of the medical fraternity in San Diego, was born in Fredericktown, Madison county, Missouri, June 10, 1850, his parents being Francis L. and Mary L. (Tesraeu) Valle. He acquired his early education in the public schools of his native city and after- ward entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1879. He practiced for three years in Brewer, Missouri, but removed at the end of that time to Breckenridge, Texas, where he became prominent and successful as a physician and surgeon. After three years, how- ever, he came to California and settled in San Diego in 1885, where he has since practiced. His patronage has steadily grown as he has demonstrated his skill and ability in the line of his chosen vocation and he is widely recognized as one of the most progressive and able medical practitioners in the community. He
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has made his ability broadly effective and his days are filled with hard and un- remitting work. He makes it a constant practice to rise at five in the morning and after spending a few hours in his office goes to Tia Juana, California, where he is acting assistant surgeon of the examiner of immigrants of the United States public health service at that port. Aside from his general practice Dr. Valle is examiner for twelve fraternal organizations, the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, and also assistant city health officer. A democrat in politics, he was elected a member of the council for two terms and has served for many years as county health officer.
Dr. Valle married in 1875 Miss R. Ann Hudson, and they became the parents of three children. The family are well known socially in San Diego and have an extensive circle of friends. Dr. Valle is a collector of ceramics, antiques, curios and the beautiful in art. In professional and social life he holds to high standards and enjoys in large measure the confidence and trust of those with whom he is brought in contact in every relation of life.
W. G. OLIVER, D. V. S.
The name of Dr. W. G. Oliver, veterinary surgeon, is prominently connected with the establishment of the great veterinary hospital in San Diego, one of the most unique and important institutions in the city. By virtue of his position as its originator, proprietor and manager Dr. Oliver has become widely known and it is hard to estimate the importance of the work he has done not only in the practice of his profession but in promoting public health by his study of the diseases of animals which supply food to the community. He was born in Eng- land in 1865 and his fundamental education was received in his native country, while his veterinary learning was acquired in Chicago in McKillip's Veterinary College. In 1908 he came to San Diego and in the same year established the hospital, to which he has given his time and energies ever since. Almost every year the institution is enlarged to accommodate the increased expansion and it is now thoroughly and scientifically equipped with all kinds of modern apparatus. It is supplied with the latest appliances for operating upon animals of every description and is as perfect in its details and management as the finest modern hospital. It makes possible a great and needed work-the systematic study of animal diseases and especially of tuberculosis in cows. Dr. Oliver makes a spe- cialty of treating this disease and in this relation has ably supplemented the work of the medical fraternity in conserving the public health by making it possible for the city of San Diego to secure a supply of pure milk. Dr. Oliver is one of the few men engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery who by earnest, scientific and intelligent labor are raising the standards of the profession and bringing about more systematic and practical work in investigating the diseases of animals. He keeps himself in touch with the trend of modern thought in his profession by his membership in the American Veterinary Medical Association and the California Veterinary Association. He is well known in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in the San Diego Rotary Club. While he was a resident of England he joined the British Benevolent Society and the British
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Social Society and still retains his connection with these organizations. Thoroughly qualified for the profession which he has undertaken as a life work, he has long since passed out of the ranks of mediocrity to stand with the suc- cessful few and his large practice is at once an indication of his skill and of the confidence reposed in him.
ANDREW J. BRADLEY.
Andrew J. Bradley, of the firm of Bradley & Woolman, undertakers in San Diego, and one of the most able business men in the city, was born in Toronto, Canada, May 7, 1852, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradley. He attended the public schools of his native city and left the Toronto high school when he was sixteen years of age. Immediately afterward he learned the cabinet-maker's trade and worked at it with great success for seven years. When he abandoned it he left Canada and went to Missoula, Montana, and there established himself in the undertaking and furniture business, with which he has been connected in different sections of the country since that time. He remained in Montana until 1884 and at that time went to Phoenix, Arizona, where he conducted an under- taking establishment for ten years. In 1894 he came to San Diego and formed a partnership with Mr. Woolman, with whom he has been associated in the undertaking business ever since, operating under the name of Bradley & Wool- man. His business interests have been carried forward ably and discriminatingly and in eighteen years he has gained a representative place among the successful men of the city.
Mr. Bradley married in New York city, in July, 1881, Miss Lila Walker, and they have one daughter, Mrs. Edna Woolman, of San Diego. In fraternal circles Mr. Bradley is well known and prominent, being a thirty-second degree Mason and an active member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He belongs also to the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, the Fraternal Order of. Eagles, the Fraternal Brotherhood and the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters. He has been a republican since he attained his majority and is a stanch adherent of the progressive branch of that party. All who know him respect and esteem him for the integrity which has distinguished his business dealings and the genial and upright qualities which have marked the private relations of his life.
EUGENE LAWLER.
Eugene Lawler is the secretary of the Mission Wine Company which has won an international reputation in the manufacture of wines, its business extend- ing to all parts of this country, having reached large proportions. Mr. Lawler was born in Alameda county, California, on the 3d of December, 1868, and at the usual age entered the public schools of his native town. After completing a high-school course he became interested in the raising of cattle and other stock
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and made a scientific study of the business. He learned the breeds that could best be raised in this state and his annual sales amounted to a large figure. For ten years he carried on stock-raising but during that period took up the study of grape culture, investigating all of the varieties of grapes grown in California. He began the propagation of the fruit and greatly developed and enlarged the business until the Mission Wine Company with its varied and important inter- ests has resulted. This is one of the largest concerns of the kind in San Diego and they handle all of the choicest wines manufactured in America and Europe. Their trade has now reached mammoth proportions, their output being sent all over the country. In addition to the manufacture and sale of wine they carry preserves of all kinds and they have ever followed the rule never to place upon the market anything but of the highest grade. Adhering to this plan they have won an international reputation in this respect and the name of the Mission Wine Company is a guarantee for their products. The wine companies of the state are doing much in the interests of temperance by driving out the strong alcoholic liquors which have been the bane of humanity and are encouraging the use of mild, health-producing wines. They claim among their patrons the best families of San Diego and their business here has already reached large and profitable proportions. Mr. Lawler has concentrated his efforts upon this undertaking and his well formulated and carefully executed plans have been a salient feature in the success of the business.
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