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Do not deface books by marks and wrltint;. ■- „.._ Cornell University Library F 860 P93 Clin 3 1924 028 919 152 Overs F ^^ Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028919152 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY (Southwest \ Edition ) '^rotables of ^ ^ the Q ^outhwest BEING THE PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE SOUTH- WEST, WHO HAVE HELPED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY MAKING OF THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY PUBLISHED BY THE LOS ANGELES EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 1912 Copyright, 1912, by Los Angeles Examiner. All Rights Reserved. p^z.h^^'^^ 1?3 HE "Pbess Eefeeence Libeaey" is primarily a publisher's utility library — a work of reference wherein can be found, in correct form, the basic facts, from birth down to date, regarding the lives of men of note and substantial achieve- ment, as well as the younger men, whose careers are certain, yet still in the making, together with half tones from latest photographs of the men referred to. Modern newspapers and periodicals attach great importance to illustration; in fact, most editors regard it as of equal importance with news. Newspapers require pictures of persons and places for reproduc- tion with current happenings. Although they exhaust every resource to secure up-to-date photographs, they often are compelled to reprint old-style line cuts or wash drawings, and in the majority of cases have no picture at all. The facts regarding men are often jumbled owing to the necessity of gathering them from whatever source available on a m,oment's notice. Every precaution has been taken to have the facts herein correct in every detail and the photographs of recent date. The work will be the ready reference book of the newspaper editor, writer and artist. This publication will go to all the International (Hearst) News Service and leading Associated and United Press News Service papers in the United States, and to the leading illustrated weekly and monthly publications under the classification of "National Periodicals." While the natural home of the Press Reference Library is the newspaper and periodical Editorial Boom, out of special compliment to the Southwest, the Examinee will have this Edition placed in all the leading public and college libraries of the country. of tlje OTorllr is! tfje Pios= rapijtcs! of (fireat jWen"— Carlple tlTibc Ubesi of tf)e men tn tijtsi publics^ turn sitanb out asi notable examples: of tftc tppe of men tufjo fjafae lent tljeir sf force or capital, st or botf), sf to tt)c up= tmilbing of tlje (great ^outl^toesit, sT sT from^anJfranciKco totKexasi. iWanp of tl)em pioneereb tfjrougf) tljc l)arb= «r tftipsi of tfje earlp baps, toljile otljers; battleb brabelp againsit toppling fiooms! anb prolongeb bepreKSiong of a periob notu past— in ttjis ^outfjtuesitern sT sT countrp. sT ©tljers, tofjile of more re= cent arriijal, tfje ^outljtoest is slab to number among ber otDn WHO THEY ARE By OTHEMAN STEVENS ECAUSE the great Southwest frowned on man, and pre- sented to his advance the redoubts of desert, withering heat and aridity man conquered it, turned its frown into a smile, turned its quivering furnace blasts into the calorics of fructi- fication, and quenched its thirst by uncovering its carefully hidden sources of water. So that today what forty years ago was the most forbidding region in this country has become the most inviting. The stretches that were cropped only with desolation surpass in returns for man's toil those more promising valleys which in the beginning of the na- tion lured with their promise of luxurious ease. From Texas to San Diego a generation ago there was nothing which would promise aught but a heart-breaking struggle with the untoward. American indomitableness dotted the desert sands with the bones of gold- seekers, and men marched, tortured by thirst, shriveled by pitiless heat, over countless acres then worse than worthless, and today richer in returns than were even the dreams of the Argonauts. When, in 1 847, by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the nation secured the larger portion of the territory involved in this Southwest, it was obtained for political purposes, and its value as an asset of the nation was as much laughed at as was the purchase of Alaska, which for a decade caused Secre- tary of State Seward to be regarded as either a dement or an incompetent. But nothing brings out the capaci ty of the American to accomplish the impossible more than the facing of the impossible. It was not over forty years ago when General Sherman said that if he owned Hades and Texas, he would sell Texas and live in the other place. New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California were, from the Sherman point of view, even less desirable. What has been brought about, when contrasted with what was, is almost of the impressiveness of a miracle. A miracle wrought by staunch courage, by strife because of the love of strife, with Nature herself. It is of the men who have aided in creating this empire of fertility where they found only the abomination of sterility that this volume treats, for these are the men who not only m ade blades of grass grow where none grew before, but where none could grow before. TTiey are the men who turned the sands into pleasant fields ; who went under the ground and took from the depths the seas of oil, and the ingots; they dug, and bored, and built reservoirs and aqueducts, and herded their cattle on the thousand hills, and built the cities, and created the factories. They are the men who, when Sa n Francisco was destroyed, turned their backs on the past and with indomitable spirit carved out for their great city a future mightier than its illustrious past. They are the men who removed the Far West from the map, and made West and East one. They are the men who conquered the Llano Estacado of Texas, with plow and pasture; they are the men who turned that dread, mysterious region of the delta of the Colorado into farms that yield fortunes to the acre; the cow counties of Southern California, under their ministrations of brain, tell a story of limitless wealth of products; they have dotted Arizona and New Mexico v«th American homes, and schools and colleges now shadow the former strongholds of the Apache. From the time the traveler leaves the Missouri River until he sights the Pacific, the work of these men and their fellows greets the pleased eye, and tales of what was seem incredible in the face of what is. What their forbears generations before did in New England, and in the Middle West, these men have done a thousandfold in the Southwest. Their work completed the conquering of the continent. DR. NORMAN BRIDGE PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY =1 R I D G E, DR. N O R M A N ; physician, teacher and busi- ness man, was born in Wind- sor, Vt., December 30, 1844, the son of James Madison and Nancy Ann (Bagley) Bridge. He is descend- ed from Deacon John Bridge, who came from England and settled in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, in 1632. Norman is of the seventh generation from John of Cambridge. His great grandfather, Ebenezer, was a colonel in Washington's army of the Revolution. Deacon John "saved the settlement" of Cam- bridge when Hooker seceded to Connecticut in 1636 and so was responsible for the pres- ent location of Harvard College. There is a bronze statue of him on Cambridge Common, in the garb of a Puritan. It was erected in 1882 and is the work of the artists, T. R. and M. S. Gould. Dr. Bridge was married in 1874 to Miss Mae Manford, daughter of the late Rev. Erasmus and Hannah (Bryant) Manford. Their only child died in infancy. The Bridge family removed to a farm in Malta, DeKalb County, Illinois, when Nor- man was twelve years old. The family con- sisted of father, mother, an older brother and a younger sister. The brother, Edward, was a soldier in the Civil War, Fifty-fifth Illinois Regiment, and died of disease in the service, after surviving a dozen battles. His father died in 1879 and his mother at an advanced age in 1903. Norman B. received his general education in the country district schools, and in the High Schools of DeKalb and Sycamore, Illi- nois. He taught a country school in the win- ter of 1862-63. He never attended the aca- demic department of a university or college. He was a fire insurance agent in Morris, Illinois , in 1864-65, traveling through the entire county of Grundy. In 1865 he began the study of medicine, attended the medical department of the University of Michigan in 1866-7, and of the Northwestern University in 1867-8, where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. He received the degree of A. M. from the Lake Forest College in 1889. His summer vacations from medical col- lege he spent in work on his father's farm in Malta, chiefly in harvesting hay and grain, and in threshing. He began teaching medicine from the time of his graduation, and from that day to this his name has appeared in the faculty of some Medical College— in his Alma Mater first, then in the Woman's College, and since early in 1874 in Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago, of which he is now Emeritus Professor of Medicine. He was for twenty years, more or less, an attending phy- sician in the County Hospital and in the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago. He re- ceived the ad eundem degree in medicine from Rush College in 1878. He has had his professional office in only two communities, Chicago, until 1891, and in Los Angeles since. Through the decade of the eighties he accepted appointive public office for seven years, first as a member of the Chicago Board of Education for three years, 1881-1884, after- ward as the Republican Election Commis- sioner for four years, 1886-1890. His health broke down with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1890, and in January, '91, he moved to California, where he has since resided, first at Sierra Madre (1891-4), then at Pasadena (1894-1910), and finally in Los Angeles. By 1893 he had so far recovered as to resume his work for a few weeks each autumn in the College and Presbyterian Hos- pital at Chicago. He continued the autumn hospital work until 1900, and the college lec- tures until 1905 inclusive. He has been regu- larly engaged in practice in Los Angeles for twenty years. Since 1905, however, his growing secular business has compelled him gradually to reduce his professional work, and he has regarded his active college service as terminated. The public appointments were unsought and each came as a surprise — that to the School Board from the first Mayor Harrison, and the Election Commissionership from the County Court — Judge Richard Prendergast. On his entry into the Board of Education he was elected Vice-President of that body, and in a few months was made President to serve out a fractional year ; after which he was , elected to the same office for a full year term. He was a Republican, and the Board con- sisted of twice as many Democrats as Re- publicans. The election office was illuminating in the study of human nature and government; NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST in ward politics and party strife. The Re- publican Commissioner was one of three, the other two were Democrats, and the County Court was democratic. His first appointment to the Election Com- mission was for an unexpired term of one year. Near the end of this term the "Trib- une," the leading Republican newspaper, began to attack his Republicanism, not be- cause this was open to the smallest criticism, but because he had a personal friend who edited a rival newspaper.* On one Sunday the paper contained a severe editorial attack upon him because of his alleged failure to do a particular thing in the Canvassing Board on the Friday before. As a matter of fact, he had tried to accomplish the thing referred to, but had been outvoted, as the Saturday edition of the "Tribune" in its local columns truthfully reported. The next day (Monday) both the "Daily News" and the "Inter- Ocean" printed in parallel columns the para- graphs referring to the Republican Commis- sioner, of the "Tribune" on Saturday and Sunday, and ridiculed the paper for its in- consistency and carelessness. This led to worse attacks, and retorts by the other papers. Finally there appeared in the "Inter- Ocean" of Thursday a biting open letter to the editor of the "Tribune" signed by the Commissioner himself. This inspired more reckless attacks on him and on the other papers, and culminated, the following Sun- day, in a libel on his professional character. Then, with his attorney, he went to the office of the paper and had a quiet and much re- strained conversation with the editor, which resulted in an editorial correction and apology the following morning. At the end of his year, which occurred during the week of this newspaper war, the County Judge reappoint- ed him for a full term of three years, which he served out. The only elective office he has held was that of one of a Board of "Freeholders" in the City of Pasadena, in 1900, to frame a new charter for the city. Their charter was adopted. Dr. Bridge has written considerably for medical journals and somewhat for the lay press. He is the author of four modest books, three of collected essays and ad- dresses: "The Penalties of Taste," "The Rewards of Taste," and "House-Health ;" and "Tuberculosis," which is a re-cast of his col- lege lectures on this subject. Dr. and Mrs. Bridge visited Europe in 1889 and in 1896, and he alone went to Lon- don on a hurried business trip in April, 1906. But his vacations have consisted mostly in some varying of his activities, for he has, through life, been a constant debtor to the joy of work. He believes that, outside his regular vocation, every professional man should have some avocations that make him touch, with an ample grasp, the secular world about him. His own early shortage in school education has encouraged an in- terest in schools in general. For some seven- teen years he has been one of the Trustees of Throop Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena, and most of that time as Chairman of the Board. He has seen that institution grow from a small academy until it has now come to be a college of technology of the highest standard. From January, 1906, to the present. Dr. Bridge has given a large part of his time to the oil and gas business, in association with Messrs. E. L. Doheny and Chas. A. Canfield. He is now a director and the treasurer of several of the companies operating and inter- ested in the gulf region of Mexico and in California, notably the Mexican Petroleum Co., Ltd., the Mexican Petroleum Co., the Huasteca Petroleum Co., the American Petroleum Co., and the American Oilfields Co., and of the Mexican National Gas Co., operating in Mexico City. The business interests in Mexico have taken him often to that republic, and he and his associates have many warm friends among Mexican citizens. They have for ten years conducted their business in complete harmony and amity with the government of Mexico and with its citizens both of the business and the working classes, for all of whom, and for the government, they have the highest respect. , Dr. Bridge belongs to several Scientific Societies, among them the "Association of American Physicians," the "American Cli- matological Association," of which he was one year President; the "American Academy of Medicine," the "Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters," the "Los Angeles Academy of Sciences," and the local. State and National Medical Associa- tions. His clubs are the "Union League," "Hamilton," and "University" Clubs of Chi- cago; the "California," "University," "Sierra Madre," and the "Sunset" Clubs of Los An- geles. ♦Melville E. Stone of the "Dally News." lO PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY IXBY, JOTHAM, Pioneer Stock Raiser and Capitalist, Los An- geles, California, was born at Norridgewock, Maine, January 20, 1831. He comes from the old stock of New Bnglanders who settled in Maine in the early days and who previously had come from Massachusetts. His father was Amasa Bixby and his mother Fanny (Weston) Bixby. On December 4, 1862, at San Juan Bau- tista, California, he married Margaret Winslow Hatha- way, second daughter of the Rev. George W. Hathaway, of Skowhegan, Maine. By this union there have been born seven children — George Hathaway, Mary Hathaway, (deceased), Henry Llewellyn (deceased), Margaret Hath- away (deceased), Rosamond Read (deceased), Fanny Weston and Jotham Wins- low Bixby. Mr. Bixby received his education in the common schools of his native state. Being one of ten children, and realizing that there were few opportunities for him in Maine, he determined to go to California, which at that time was attracting the eyes of the civilized world. The gold rush was on, and in 1852, Jotham Bixby found bimself aboard the ship, Samuel Appleton, California- bound. The ship went around the Horn and Mr. Bixby was landed in San Francisco, the Mecca City for adventurers and gold seeKers from all parts of the globe. In July, of the same year, Mr. Bixby, in company with several others who went out with him from his home village, entered the mining region near Volcano, in Amador County, California. He continued in placer mining for about five years and acquired a small amount of capital. In 1856, he went into sheep raising and the wool business and the following year moved south to San Luis Obispo County, California, near San Miguel. He remained there in close attention to his growing flocks for about nine years. The name and fame of Southern California had commenced to impress itself on a few of the far-sighted and, in 1866, Mr. Bixby sold his inter- ests in San Luis Obispo County, intent on settling near Los Angeles. A short time previous to this he and his equal partner, the well known pioneer firm of Flint, Bixby and Company, of which his elder brother, Llewellyn Bixby, was also a member, had purchased from John Temple the fertile and well-watered Rancho Los Cerritos, containing over 27,000 acres. This vast tract of land, which lies east of the San Gabriel River and fronts the Pa- cific ocean, includes the present townsltes of Long Beach and Clearwater, and the Llewellyn or New River district. Mr. Bixby was half owner and in full management of the property and soon became known as one of the largest and wealthiest stock JOTHAM BIXBY raisers in Southern California. With his indomi- table force of character, he gradually worked his way to the front. He made additional land pur- chases, financed numerous worthy development projects and became known as one of the most pro- gressive citizens of Los Angeles. As their flocks enlarged and their profits in- creased, Mr. Bixby and his associates purchased 17,000 acres of the Palos Verdes Rancho, and a one- third Interest in Los Alamitos Rancho, of 26,000 acres. Later he purchased, individually, 6000 acres in the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, as well as busi- ness properties in and around Los Angeles. With this expansion of holdings his stock was cor- respondingly increased and at times had 30,000 head of sheep on his ranges. From this herd 200,000 pounds of wool were obtained yearly. In later years he raised horses and cattle as well as sheep. Now his principal live stock interest is in Hol- stein-Friesian cattle and in scientific dairying. Mr. Bixby has had a great deal to do with the upbuild- ing of Long Beach, which stands on land formerly owned by him, and today, at the age of eighty, is as eager for its growth as he was at the time he bought this beautiful plateau facing the ocean for a grazing ground. He has now turned over the management of some of his interests to his sons. At the same time he takes a keen interest in looking af- ter business details, par- ticularly of his farming interests, his confidence in his own judgment therein being fully justified by the fact that farming formed the foundation of his fortune. He is president of the Bixby Land Co., the Palos Verdes Co., the Jotham Bixby Co. and many smaller corporations, and vice president of the Alamitos Land Co., the Alamitos Water Co., and the National Bank of Long Beach, being associated in some of these enterprises with other members of his family connection and in others with that eminent Pacific Coast financier, Isaias W. Hellman. Mr. Bixby has long occupied a comfortable, but by no means ostentatious residence overlooking the Pacific ocean at Long Beach, but recently (Septem- ber, 1911) he purchased the magnificent residence built there two years before by A. D. Meyers, a mining man, and which is one of the most palatial residences in Southern California. There he is rounding out the evening of a most active life in close and happy companionship with his wife and his surviving children and grandchil- dren, who, best of all, know and appreciate the sim- ple, unaffected and generous, but entirely vigorous traits of character which make this stalwart scion of a hardy and conscientious race a true historic representative of the best and most characteristic in the transformation of early California. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST II IXBY, GEORGE H., Banking, Long Beach, California, Is a native of that state, having been bom on Independence Day, 1864, at San Juan Bautista, San Benito Coun- ty. He is the oldest son of Jotham Bixby, the famous Southern California pioneer and settler, and Margaret (Hathaway) Blxby. His mother's father, the Reverend George W. Hathaway of Skowhegan, Me., was a graduate of Williams College and of the Andover Theological Seminary and served through the Civil War as chaplain of one of the Maine regiments. Mr. Hathaway traced in direct descent to Governor William Bradford, who came over in the Mayflower and was the first Governor of Plymouth Colony, and to Kenelm Winslow, a brother of Edward Winslow, the sec- ond Governor of the colony. On his famer's side, Mr. Bixby traces, as do probably all the families of that name scattered in various parts of the country, to Joseph Bixby, who came over from England in the early Puritan immi- gration and settled in Mas- sachusetts, from which state his descendants kept push- ing out to the frontier in many directions. This branch of the family settled in Maine, and Mr. Jotham Bixby's maternal grandfather, named Wes- ton, was one of the sturdy Maine woodsmen-farmers who lost their lives in the service of their coun- try in the first year of the Revolutionary War, while guiding through those pathless northern for- ests the ill-fated expedition of General Benedict Arnold against Quebec. Mr. Bixby married in Los Angeles, on August 31, 1887, Amelia M. E. Andrews, a native of Toronto, Canada, and daughter of Joshua and Dinah Eliza- beth Andrews, well-known old-time residents of the Los Nietos Valley. As a result of this mar- riage there are now surviving six children, Rich- ard A., Philip L., Margaret W., Barbara L., David W. and Stephen L. Blxby. Mr. Bixby was educated in the preparatory schools of Oakland, California. After graduating from the Sackett School in that city he entered Yale University, where he graduated with the de- gree of B. A. in 1886. In college he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. On returning to Long Beach from the East, he GEORGE H. BIXBY immediately took up part of his father's interests at that place, becoming secretary of the Alamitos Land Company. For several years he remained in this position, studying the business conditions of that vicinity and acquainting himself with his father's extended properties and holdings. About the year 1901 he was appointed Vice President and Manager of the Bixby Land Company and of the Palos Verdes Land Company, his father re- taining the presidency of these corporations, but looking to his son to assist him in the management of them. From that time down to date he has had his time well employed in managing and directing the various companies in which he holds office and in working for the development of the Long Beach community in general. He is a director of the Los Angeles Dock and Terminal Company, developing the Long Beach Inner Harbor; director of the Seaside In- vestment Company, owning and operating the Hotel Vir- ginia; director of the Wall Company Department Store; director Long Beach Dairy Company and other local cor- porations. He is also vice president of the National Bank of Long Beach, and president of the Long Beach Savings BanK & Trust Com- pany, a substantial and grow- ing institution. As an owner of extensive land holdings through- out the Southwest, Mr. Bixby has been in a posi- tion to understand the alignment and condition ot roads in Southern California. He was chairman of the Los Angeles County Highway Commission up to August, 1911, having served as Highway Commissioner for four years. During this time he has been occupied in studying the highway conditions of the county, in touring over the boulevards in the interests of his position and in laying plans for new improvements in this direction. Since retiring at the end of his second term in this office, he is devoting his time to his banking, real estate, ranching and other interests in Long Beach and to the upbuilding of his city, his work in this direction placing him in the forefront of civic factors. He is a member of the California Club in Los Angeles, the Virginia Country Club at Long Beach, as well as being an honorary member of the El Rodeo Club in the latter city. 12 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY GEORGE A. BATCHELDER NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 13 ATCHELDER, GEORGE AIKEN, Vice President E. H. Rollins & Sons, Bonds, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, was bom in that city April 13, 1860, the son of Joseph Moody Batchelder and Elizabeth (Aiken) Batchelder. He married Mary Whittemore Kitt- redge, daughter of Jonathan Kittredge, a California pioneer, in San Francisco, March 19, 1885, and two children were born to them, Doris Elizabeth (Mrs. De Lancy Lewis) and Kittredge Batchelder. Mr. Batchelder comes in direct descent through eight generations from the Reverend Stephen Batchiler of Hampshire, England, who landed in Boston from the "William and Francis" June, 1632. Oliver Wendell Holmes speaks of the Reverend Stephen as "that terrible old sinner and ancestor of great men." There has been some controversy as to the fitness of the first distinction, but of the second there can be no doubt. Among his well- known descendants are Daniel Webster, orator; John Greenleaf Whittier, poet; General Benjamin F. Butler, soldier and lawyer, Wm. Pitt Fessenden, statesman; Caleb Gushing, diplomat; General R. N. Batchelder, Grant's Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, and many others of lesser note. George Aiken inherited his wanderlust from the Reverend Stephen, who took his B. A. at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1586, afterwards lived in Holland and England, and sailed for America in 1632, after receiving from Charles I a grant of arms, notable as one of the few given for services performed in America — "Vert, a plow in fess; in base the sun rising, Or." He returned to England, dying in 1660, in the one hundredth year of his age. George A. Batchelder's mother's family came from Londonderry, in the North of Ireland, in 1660. His forbears proved their patriotism in the Colo- nial, the Revolutionary and the Civil wars. Joseph M. Batchelder reached California in 1850, but went to China in the sixties and died of sunstroke at Miyanosta, Japan, in 1893. He raised the sunken steamship Ajax, which had blocked the river at Shanghai; built the first ocean-going steamship constructed in China, the Yangtzi, and was shipowner, transporting the troops of the Mikado in the war with the Tycoon in 1869. Mr. Batchelder's education has been varied and somewhat cosmopolitan. In 1866-67 he attended a private school in Shanghai, China; in 1868 a pub- lic school in New Hampshire; the Mount Pleasant Academy, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1869-70; Al- len's English and Classical School, West Newton, Massachusetts, 1871-73; the Japanese Government Business School and the University of Tokio, 1874-79, and at the Columbia Law School, Wash- ington, D. C, in 1882-83. This extensive schooling was supplemented by traveling when pirates were afloat and traveling was not merely tripping in express trains and floating hotels, all of which combined to broaden his viewpoints. A three months' voyage to Shanghai, via Honolulu and Foochow, on the barque Valetta, Captain Cavan- augh, in 1866; a cruise in a private yacht through the Inland Sea of Japan, in 1867, while the Tycoon still reigned; a return to San Francisco in March, 1868, on the China, Captain Cobb, with Anson Burlingame's first Chinese Embassy; back to Mas- sachusetts via Panama in the same year, thence to Japan again in 1873 on the America, Captain Free- man, and from 1873 to 1880 traveling, attending school in Tokio and acting as Assistant Secretary at the United States Legation, form a kaleidoscop- ic record that suggests a course of moving-picture shows. An official touch is added by the fact that the American Government rented, for ten years, as its Legation in Japan, the residence of Mr. Batch- elder's father. The roving spirit again seized Mr. Batchelder in 1897 and sent him to Europe in that year; again, in 1902, to the South Seas, and Tahiti in 1904, and around the world in 1907-08. Mr. Batchelder's active business life began in 1880, when he entered the Quartermaster's Depot, U. S. A., in San Francisco, and rose in two years to the post of chief clerk of the depot. From 1882 to 1883 he was a clerk in the War Department at Washington, and in October of the latter year he became treasurer of the Dakota Investment Com- pany at Grand Forks in the Red River Valley of the then Territory of Dakota. In 1885 he became an officer of the corporation of E. H. Rollins & Sons as Western manager, and in 1892 went to Denver, Colorado, to take charge of its business there. Two years later, in 1894, he opened the San Francisco branch of the house, which thereby became the pioneer bond house of the Pacific Coast. Since that date he has placed more than thirty millions of outside capital in Cal- ifornia municipalities and corporations. In 1894 Mr. Batchelder introduced on this Coast the business of dealing solely in municipal and corporation bonds. The San Francisco office force of E. H. Rollins & Sons consisted of a bookkeeper and a stenographer, with a local business of per- haps $500,000 annual volume. Today the estab- lishment embraces twenty-six, with a volume of some $11,000,000 annually. It was not until 1905 that the second bond house was established in San Francisco, since which time some half a dozen other houses have been added. Mr. Batchelder has been a director of numerous corporations in various States, and among these his directorship of the Bay Counties Power Com- pany, which broke all previous records for long- ■ distance transmission of electric power, and that of the Western Pacific Railway, the first railroad to brenk into California against the will of the Southern Pacific, are those in which he took great- est pride, officially speaking. After the Continental rather than the American custom, he retired from active business at th? age of 50. He is now, he says, "taking life easy after the English and Japanese modes," enjoying his home and giving as much time as he can spare therefrom to certain necessary business interests and to his clubs and societies. Of the latter he has a varied assortment. Among them: The So- ciety of Colonial Wars, D. C, the Bohemian Club, the Pacific Union Club, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, California Commandery, and tne Menlo Country Club. 14 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ELLS, RALPH EVANS, Gen- eral Manager of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, Los Angeles, California, was born at Guelph, Ontario, Canada, September 24, 1866. His father was Arthur Wells and his mother Georgina Dora (Rideout) Wells. Mr. Wells' father graduated from Upper Canada College, Toronto, in Ontario, at the age of fifteen, going from there to the south of France, where he stud- ied civil engineering at the University of Avignon. Graduating from there five years later, he worked in the engineering depart- ment of the first railroad constructed in France, and later located and built the old Great Western, now forming a part of the main line of the Grand Trunk System between Niagara Suspension Bridge and Detroit. On December 3, 1889, at Topeka, Kan- sas, Mr. Wells married Frances Grace Haw- ley, by which union there are four children: Ralph Evans Wells, Jr., now attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- ton; Howard Hawley Wells, who enters the Boston institute this fall; Robert Hawley Wells and Frances Grace Wells. Mr. Wells was educated in the public schools of Guelph, Ontario, where he spent his boyhood days. At the age of sixteen Mr. Wells started in at what has proven to be his life work — railroading. His entrance into the railroad world was made as an office boy in the Audi- tor's office of the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad in 1883. .He re- mained in this position until the following September, when he was advanced to the position of Clerk to the Assistant Superin- tendent of the same road. In January, 1884, he secured a position as clerk in the General Manager's office of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, where he remained until May of the same year. From May, 1884, until February, 1885, he was Clerk in the First Vice President's office of the C, B. & Q. Railroad. For the next five years he was Secretary to the General Manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, in Topeka, Kansas. In May, 1890, he ^yas advanced to the position of Chief Clerk to the Vice President and Gen- eral Manager of the Santa Fe system. In July, 1893, Mr. Wells received an offer from the Mexican Cen- tral Railroad, which he accepted. He was made Chief Clerk to the Gen- eral Manager of that sys- tem, and retained that position until December, 1894. In April of the following year he became Assistant General Man- ager of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway, where he re- mained until February, 1901, when he resigned to settle in Los Angeles. On the organization of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, which took place on April 1, 1901, he was offered the position of General Manager, which he accepted. Mr. Wells immediately took charge of that system and has continued in the capacity of General Manager down to date. In 1903, when the tracks of the Oregon Short Line, south of Salt Lake City, were taken over by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, Mr. Wells moved his headquarters to Salt Lake City, taking charge of the reconstruction work on that system in both Utah and Nevada. He re- mained in that city for the following two years, returning to Los Angeles in Febru- ary, 1905, just prior to the opening up of the Salt Lake road for through traffic. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles and of the Alta Club of Salt Lake City. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 15 ARTORI, JOSEPH F., Banker, Los Angeles, Cal., was born on Christmas Day, in the year 1858, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, the son of Joseph and Theresa (Wangler) Sartori. He married Margaret Rishel, at Le Mars, Iowa, in June, 1886. He received the elementary portion of his education in the public schools of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, then went to Germany, where he spent one year (1877-78) at the Univer- sity of Freiburg. Return- ing to the United States, he entered Cornell Col- lege, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and was graduated from there with the de- gree of Bachelor of Sci- ence in 1879. He then en- tered the Law Depart- ment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was graduated from there in 1881. Upon completion of his college course he en- tered the law office of Leslie M. Shaw (former- ly Secretary of the Treas- ury and now president of a bank in Philadelphia), at Dennison, Iowa, and studied for eight months. He was admitted to the Bar at the end of that time, and from 1882 to 1887 he practiced his profession as a partner of Congressman I. S. Struble, of Iowa. In 1887 Mr. Sartori gave up his legal prac- tice in Iowa and moved to California, settling March 19, 1887, in the then new town of Monrovia. It was there that he made his first venture into the banking field, establishing the First National Bank of that place. He was its first cashier, and served as such until 1889, and is its vice president at the present time. Arriving in California during the years of its great boom, Mr. Sartori saw opportuni- ties for greater successes in the larger field of Los Angeles, and in 1889 he transferred his residence to that city. He organized, in February, 1889, the Se- curity Savings Bank, undoubtedly the largest of its kind in the entire Southwest, and has been connected with its management from the day it began business. He was elected which latter he was a charter member. JOSEPH F. SARTORI president of the institution in January, 1895, and has been its executive head since then. At the present time the bank has capital stock and surplus of more than $2,000,000 and total resources exceeding $33,000,000. The history of Mr. Sartori's banking ca- reer in Los Angeles would record in detail but one constant succession of advances, en- largements and accretions. He has put into it not only a complete academic knowledge, but practical methods and seemingly unerring judg- ment. Coming from Swiss- Italian ancestry of honor- able record and deep im- print on the conscious- ness of the people of that portion of Europe, Mr. Sartori, when he entered the banking world, met with unexpected and hearty support from a great number of persons who had known his fam- ily name in Europe, and to whom the probity and capacity of the Sartoris meant reliability. His remarkable in- sight into banking and economic conditions was never better illustrated than in his fight before the California Legisla- ture in 1911 for real re- forms in the State banking laws and over- sight of State financial institutions. He ap- peared before the committees on banks and banking as the leader of the reform forces, and his arguments had a palpable beneficial effect upon the legislation which resulted. In addition to his presidency of the Secur- ity Bank in Los Angeles, which is housed in one of the most beautiful structures in the country, Mr. Sartori is vice president of the Monrovia Bank, which he helped to found; has been a director for twelve years in the L. A. Brick Co., and is actively interested in nu- merous ranch properties in and about Cali- fornia. He is also a director of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. He is president of the California Club and holds memberships in the following: Jona- than, Annandale Golf, Crags Country, L. A. Athletic and the L. A. Country clubs, of i6 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY LARK, J. ROSS, Banking and Rail- roading, Los Angeles, California, is a native of ConnellsvUle, Penn- sylvania, born April 10, 1850. His father was John Clark and his mother Mary (Andrews) Clark. He married Miriam A. Evans on April 16, 1878, at Butte, Montana. As a result of this marriage there are two children, Ella H., now Mrs. Henry C. Lee, and Walter M. Clark. He received his early edu- cation in the public schools of his native State and con- cluded his studies with a course in the Academy of Bentonsport, Iowa. When Mr. Clark grew up his position, environments and opportunities were far different than those of the young men of today. To- wards the setting sun stretched that vast country known to Americans as the Great West. It was indeed to be a Greater West, for it was just entering on that phenomenal period of growth that has had no equal in the history of the world. It was young, wild and undeveloped. The Indians had not yet been subdued, the vast min- eral deposits lay untouched, unlimited timber tracts stretched away toward the mountains and the thousand and one industries that were later to add to the wealth and power of the country were unknown. Mr. Clark decided to try his fortunes there and, leav- ing Iowa in 1871, went directly to Montana, then one of the most rugged yet wealthy regions of the West. He went into business in the vicinity of Butte, Montana, with his brother. Senator William A. Clark, who had preceded him to Montana by several years. It was a hard struggle in those days. There were no railroads; stages being the only means of transportation known in those wilds. It took the strongest kind of character, courage and persistency to face the trials which confronted the pioneer, but all through the years that followed, Mr. Clark, determinate, remained in that country, and its history is linked largely with his success. Between the years 1871 and 1893, Mr. Clark was engaged in banking and mining throughout the Montana district, being closely associated with his brother in many of the largest copper mining enterprises of the Northwest. In 1876, the same year in which General Custer fought his battle on J. ROSS CLARK the Little Big Horn river, the Clarks established a private bank at Butte, Montana, which financial institution is still in operation. Mr. Clark became heavily interested in numer- ous mineral deals, in the building of smelters and in other industries adapted to the Montana country. He was identified with every great move for the development of that State as well as with the neighboring territories; with the founding of cities, construction of railroads, organization of terri- torial government, and in fact his work is part of the his- tory of Montana. In 1892 he moved to Los Angeles, where he saw an immense field for operation, and where his family could live amid more beautiful sur- roundings. Mr. Clark's rec- ord in Southern California has been as brilliant as it was in Montana, and he has shared in the development of Los Angeles to a high de- gree. In 1896 he built the Los Alamitos sugar factory in Southern California, which he managed for several years. He has since turned this business over to his son, Walter M. Clark, who holds the position of manager. As vice president of the Salt Lake railroad, of which his brother, the Senator, is the principal genius, Mr. Clark has made a conspic- uous success. He is also a liberal philanthropist and aids many worthy institutions. Perhaps his most generous assistance was rendered when the Young Men's Christian Association of Los Angeles was in severe straits. Ever ready and willing to put his shoulder to the wheel, Mr. Clark took charge of the destinies of the association, and after a long, hard campaign for new life, new home and new funds, he put the association in the position it occupies today — a splendid institution, with branches in all parts of the city, engaged in a wonderful work. He is deeply Interested in many Southern Cali- fornia corporations, is Vice President of the Los Alamitos Sugar Company and is a Director and Vice President of the Citizens' National Bank of Los Angeles. He is identified with many of the larger movements for a Greater Los Angeles and has played the part of a distinguished factor in the growth of the Southwest. He is a member of the California, the Jonathan and Sierra Madre clubs, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and the Silver Bow Club of Butte, Montana. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 17 -/ COTT, JOSEPH, Attorney-at- ' Law, Los Angeles, California, was born at Penrith, County of Cumberland, England, July 16, 1867. His father was oseph Scott, and his mother, Mary (Don- nelly) Scott, was a native of Wexford, Ire- land. On June 6, 1898, he married Bertha Roth at Los Angeles, California. To them were born eight children : Joseph, Jr., Mary, Al- fonso, George, Cuthbert, John Patrick, Helen and Josephine Scott. Mr. Scott received his first education in his na- tive country, where he at- tended Ushaw College, Durham, from 1880 until 1888. He matriculated with honors at London University in 1887, being the gold medalist of his class. At St. Bonaven- ture's College, Allegany, N. Y., he received the de- gree of A. M. in 1893, and the honorary degree of Ph. D. at Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, Cal., in 1907. Mr. Scott came to America from England in 1889, and entered into journalistic work in New York City. In this he had more success than remuneration and about that period he had the hardest struggles of his life. He was un- used to manual work, but during his financial difficulty he took employment of various kinds, in some cases consisting of the hard- est kinds of physical labor. In 1890 St. Bon- aventure's College, Allegany, N. Y., accepted his application for the position of Senior Pro- fessor of Rhetoric and English Literature. He held this position until 1893, when he re- signed and removed to Los Angeles, where he took up the study of law. He was admit- ted to the bar in April, 1894, and his strong personality soon brought him to the front in civic affairs, in which he has been a leading factor, especially in matters educational and those furthering the interest and growth of Southern California. His energy in this line won for him from President Taft the compli- ment of being "California's greatest booster.' JOSEPH SCOTT busy one. A case especially worthy of men- tion in which he is playing a prominent part is at this time in course of preparation. It is the world-famous "McNamara Case," involv- ing charges of murder growing out of the ex- plosion of the Los Angeles Times building. Mr. Scott has been engaged by the defense. This case, it is expected, will be one of the most bitterly fought cases that was ever tried in the United States and the attention and interest of the world is centered on it — the public out of general interest and the legal profession out of professional interest. Mr. Scott is a fluent and versatile speaker, his addresses being marked for their sound logic and wit, and he has frequent- ly been called upon to represent the city upon social and civic occasions. He was Speaker at the banquet to President Taft upon his visit to Los An- geles in 1908, and Toast- master at the banquet given to the officers of the battleship fleet during its stay there upon the trip around the world in 1908. He represented California at Washington in the successful fight for the Panama-Pacific Ex- position to be held at San Francisco in 1915, and his work in this won praise at every hand. He has taken deep interest in educational matters and is at the present time president of the Board of Education, which office he has held five terms, although no salary is at- tached thereto, and has been instrumental in the building and directing of Los Angeles' splendid school system. He was first elected to the Board in 1905. Mr. Scott is a director of the Equitable Savings Bank. He was a member of the Charter Revision Committee in 1903; is a member and director of the Chamber of Com- merce, of which he was president in 1910; a member of the Executive Committee of the Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America and vice president Southwest Museum. He is a member California, Union Mr. Scott's professional life is a big and League, Sunset, Newman and Celtic clubs. i8 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY REEN, BURTON E., presi- dent Amalgamated Oil Co. of Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Wisconsin, Sept. 6, 1868, his parents being Richard Green and Amanda Hill (Bush) Green. On January 14, 1905, Mr. Green mar- ried Miss Lilian Wellborn, a daughter of Judge Olin Wellborn, U. S. Dist. Judge. They have two little daughters, Dorothy and Liliore. As a boy he attended the public schools of Wisconsin and the Beav- er Dam Academy of the same State. In 1886 his parents moved to Califor- nia, and in 1889 he grad- uated from the High School of Los Angeles. Soon after his gradua- tion he went to Redlands and became interested in orange culture, which he pursued successfully for five years. This occupa- tion did not afford suf- ficient activity and he re- turned to Los Angeles to seek a larger field of busi- ness possibilities. At this time the oil industry seemed to ofjfer the greatest opportuni- ties, and associating him- self with M. H. Whittier they entered the oil business under the firm name of Green & Whittier. Mr. Whittier, as a practical oil operator, looked after the drilling operations, while Mr. Green attended to the administrative and financial portion of the business. The first operations confined to the Los Angeles field were undertaken with excellent judgment and satisfactory results. After drilling one of the first wells in the Coalinga district, because of greater activity in the Kern River district they transferred their operations to the vicinity of Bakersfield, and soon had a splendid production. The Green & Whittier Oil Co. was one of the three original companies which were com- bined to form the Associated Oil Co. Mr. Green was elected director and member of the executive committee, and is still one of its board of directors. The Associated Oil Co. probably does the largest volume of business of any oil company on the Pacific Coast. BURTON E. GREEN In 1905 the Amalgamated Oil Co. was formed, with activities confined principally to Southern California, where it does the bulk of the oil business. Soon after its formation Mr. Green was elected president, and still fills this position. He is also largely interest- ed in and president of the Belridge Oil Co., one of the newer oil companies, which, on ac- count of its tremendous holdings of 32,000 acres in the rich Lost Hills district, promises to be an important factor in the oil business of the State. Aside from his oil in- terests he is largely inter- ested in the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., a corpora- tion owning approximate- ly 200,000 acres of excel- lent timber land in Ore- gon and a number of large mills, near several ot which it has been instru- mental in building up towns. Mr. Green is also the largest stockholder in the Rodeo Land & Water Co., a corporation owning a valauble tract of about 3000 acres of land near Los Angeles. A portion of it has been subdivided and, as Beverly Hills, is known as one of the most exclusive subdivisions in Southern California. Outdoor life appeals strongly to Mr. Green, and whenever his business affairs per- mit he indulges in hunting, fishing, golf and motoring. As a member of the Bolsa Chica Gun Club, the Flatrock Club (whose grounds are in Idaho) and the San Ysidro Rancho Co. of Mexico, he has ample opportunity to grat- ify his shooting and fishing proclivities, while his membership in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Country clubs give him access to the best links to test out his prowess as a golfer. His enjoyment of club life is further evi- denced by his membership in the California Club, the Jonathan Club and Crags Country Club of Los Angeles, and the Pacific Union Club and the Bohemian Club of San Fran- cisco. In all of his clubs he has a large circle of friends and acquaintances among whom he is most pleasantly and favorably known. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 19 OCHRAN, GEORGE IRA, president of the Pacific Mu- tual Life Insurance Company, attorney and financier, Los Angeles, Gal., was born in Province of Ontario, Canada, 1, 1863, son of Rev. George Oshawa, on July Cochran, D. D., and Catherine Lynch (Da- vidson) Cochran. Mr. Cochran has been twice married. His first wife was Alice Maud Mc- Clung, whom he wedded in Canada on August 6, 1890; his second wife was a sister of the first, Isabelle May McClung, and was married to Mr. Cochran in Los Angeles on April 3, 1907. His education was had in private schools in To- kyo, Japan ; Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and the University of To- ronto; he was admitted as barrister-at-law at Os- good Hall, Toronto, shortly after graduation, and was admitted to prac- tice in the Supreme Court of California in February, 1888, the year of his ar- rival in Los Angeles, where he has since made his home and the scene of his busy career. His primary occupa- tion of the practice of law, combined with long and studious visits to Europe and the Orient, served to prepare his mind and de- velop his mentality for the tasks which they were to undertake; qualities which were fur- ther strengthened by an inheritance of strong character and rectitude from his forbears ; his father was a most prominent religious factor in Toronto, and his mother was a descendant of the Wesleys, the founders of the Metho- dist Church; it is thus an atavistic trait of Mr. Cochran to display those qualities of conscience and of righteousness which carry conviction of his honesty and capacity. A recital of his financial positions will serve to show the scope of his business activ- ity: He is president of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., president of the Pacific Mutual Indemnity Co., director of the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, director of the Southern California Edison Co., director GEO. I. COCHRAN of the Broadway Bank & Trust Co., director of the Anglo-California Trust Co. of San Francisco, president of the Rosedale Ceme- tery Association of Los Angeles, director of the Rindge Land & Navigating Co., president of the Holland Land & Water Co., director of the Empire Navigation Co., president of the Southern California Cremation Society, direc- tor of the Seaside Water Co., vice president of the Maclay Rancho Water Co., and interest- ed as investor in a myr- iad of other enterprises. But a formal recital of the positions attained by Mr. Cochran make a faint reflection of his po- tency and activity in business aflfairs. As president of the Pacific Mutual Life In- surance Co., Mr. Cochran finds himself the execu- tive of one of the great insurance associations of the country ; one that originated in the West, but which has been con- ducted with such acumen and wisdom as to have become one of the fore- most financial institutions of the country. His life insurance company car- ries over $20,000,000 of investments, supervised and directed by him ; when added to this duty are the immense details of his other enterprises, the fact that he is able to conduct all of this business without the os- tentation of exclusiveness that surrounds most great financiers, and that he has main- tained a simplicity and directness of method which marked his earlier years, the steadfast- ness and reliability of the man become ap- parent. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Charter Commission in 1893, is a trustee of the State Normal School at Los Angeles, is a member of the Republican County Cen- tral Committee ; he is a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association, and trustee and treasurer of the University of So. California. He belongs to the California, Jonathan, University, Los Angeles Athletic, Los An- geles Country and Union League clubs, and Federation of Clubs of Los Angeles ; also the Pacific Union and the Bohemian clubs of San Francisco. 20 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ! -.^ ANZIGER, JAKE MORRIS, Attorney and Oil Operator, Los Angeles, California, was born in New York City, May 7, 1882. His father was Mor- ris Danziger and his mother Lena (Mendel- son) Danziger. At Salt Lake City, Utah, July 25, 1900, he married Daisy C. Canfield, by which marriage there are two children, Daisy Canfield and Beth Chloe Danziger. M r. Danziger was taken to Los Angeles, California, when he was one year old and obtained his education in the pub- lic schools of that city, later taking a course at the Los Angeles Poly- technic High School. He studied law at the Uni- versity of Southern Cali- fornia. After further studies in law he was admitted to the Bar in Los Angeles, October, 1903, when he immediately went into practice for himself, and since that time has be- come one of the most prominent corporation at- torneys on the Pacific Coast. In 1905, Mr. Danziger became associated as counsel with a coterie of oil and petroleum men and now is one of the most important factors in that line in the Southwest. He is associated with C. A. Can- field, E. L. Doheny, Dr. Norman Bridge and others, whose names are linked with the dis- covery and development of oil fields, both in Southern California and in old Mexico. His first work was in the Golden State as legal adviser for C. A. Canfield. When Mr. Canfield and his associate turned their money into Mexico, for the development of the large properties of the Mexican Petroleum Com- pany, he became interested with them. The operations in Mexico cover a wide range of territory and the properties are regarded as some of the best investments in the repub- lic of the South. Another important en- terprise controlled by these men is the Mexican National Gas Company, of Mex- ico City, the corporation having installed a modern gas plant in the capital city, which now furnishes all the gas used there. These properties represent investments of millions of dollars. It would seem that these works alone would be enough to keep a man busy, but Mr. Danziger is one of the kind that thrives on hard work and he counts among his activities nearly a score of cor- porations. In 1906 he was made counsel for the oil department of the Santa Fe Railroad, retaining his position with them until 1909, when he resigned to devote his entire atten^ tion to the furtherance of the companies in which he was interested. Mr. Danziger became the manager of the Land Department of the Amer- ican Oilfields Company on its organization and has since been interested largely in that company. He also looks after the legal phases of the com- pany's business. His work at the pres- ent time is entirely in the interest of oil and petrol- eum corporations ; the American Oilfields Com- pany, the Mexican Petrol- eum Company, and the National Oil and Gypsum T M nAN7TrT7T? Company being among J. M. DANZIGER ^^^ prominent ones. He is manager of the Land Department and a di- rector in the first named company, is a direc- tor in the Herastein Petroleum Company, manager of the Bankers' Oil Company, presi- dent of both the Ruby and Opal Oil Compa- nies, is the treasurer of the Jade Oil Compa- ny, and a director in the Mexican National Gas Company. He is also treasurer of the Sapphire Oil Company. Interested as he is in so many progres- sive concerns, it is a natural sequence that Mr. Danziger should be regarded as one of the upbuilders of the Southwest. He has aided materially in any movement that had for its object the betterment of Los Angeles. Mr. Danziger is a member of the L. A. Athletic Club, the Sierra Madre Country Club, is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-second degree, and a member of the Elks Lodge No. 99. He is a Shriner and is a Republican in politics. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 21 EWMARK, MAURICE HARRIS, wholesale grocer, Los Angeles, California, is a native of that city. He was born March 3, 1859. He is the son of Harris Newmark, retired pioneer merchant of Los Angeles and founder of a number of the most substantial enterprises operating today. His mother was Sarah Newmark. On July 3, 1888, he married Rose Newmark at San Francisco, Califor- nia. There is one daugh- ter, Florence Newmark (Kauffman). Mr. Newmark attend- ed private and public schools in Los Angeles from 1865 till 1872, when he went to New York and there attended a pri- vate school for one year, after which he went to Paris, France, where he devoted his time to study from 1873 to 1876, in which year he graduated and shortly after returned to Los Angeles. Upon his return from his studies in France, Mr. Newmark entered the employ of the H. New- mark Company, the orig- inal house from which springs the present large institution, of which he is vice president, M. A. Newmark and Company. The original house was established by his father in 1865, and continued under its origi- nal name of H. Newmark and Company and under the sole control of its founder until 1885. Under the able direction of Harris Newmark, the house, which is the oldest es- tablishment of consequence in Los Angeles, has continued successfully and is today one of the most important commercial houses in the state. Up to 1885 Mr. Harris Newmark had as- sociated with him as partners at different periods such well known men as Mr. Kaspare Cohn, Mr. Samuel Cohn (deceased), Mr. M. J. Newmark (deceased), and Mr. M. A. Newmark. When in 1885 Mr. Harris Newmark re- tired from active connection with the firm, the name was changed to its present one of M. H. NEWMARK M. A. Newmark and Company, and M. H. Newmark's interest became that of a full partnership. Mr. Newmark has been and is today iden- tified with practically every movement of Southern California intended for civic or commercial betterment possessed of actual merit and worthy of the expenditure of time. He at present holds the important and honor- ary office of harbor commissioner of Los An- geles under appointment by Mayor Alexander. He has been president of the Associated Jobbers since that body was organizeo thirteen years ago. He has been president of the Southern California Wholesale Grocers' Association for the past ten years, and has served in one important capacity or another in most of the city organizations, such as the Chamber of Com- merce, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Associa- tion and the Board of Trade, in all of which he is or has been an active director. He is also a di- rector in the Southwest Museum, an adjunct of the Archaeological Socie- ty of America, established for the purpose of histor- ical research and the pres- ervation of prehistoric and historic relics of the Southwest. He is a firm believer in home industry and has backed this policy with his capital and time. As the official head of various commer- cial bodies he has advocated fair and generous policies that have had the effect of bringing business to Los Angeles, and under his ad- ministration determined steps have been taken to bring about a fair equalization of railroad freight rates. Among his business enterprises are the following: Vice president Harris Newmark Co., first vice president M. A. Newmark & Co., vice president Los Angeles Brick Co., director Equitable Savings Bank, director Standard Woodenware Co., and director Montebello Land and Water Co. He is a member of the Concordia and the Jonathan Clubs. Mr. Newmark has a valuable collection of stamps. He also enjoys fishing, and finds time each year to spend with rod and reel. 22 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ELI P. CLARK NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 23 LARK, ELI P., Railroad In- terests and Investments, was born near Iowa City, Iowa, November 25, 1847. He is the son of Timothy B. Clark and Elvira E. (Calkin) Clark. He married Lucy H. Sherman, April 8, 1880, at Prescott, Ari- zona. Mrs. Clark is a sister of General M. H. Sherman, of 'Los Angeles, and for some years resided in Arizona, where her brother was superintendent of schools for Arizona. To the Clarks were born four children, Lucy Mason, Mary Sherman, Katherine Tritle and Eugene Payson Clark. Mr. Clark's parents moved to Grinnell, Iowa, when he was eight years old, and there he received his education, first in the public schools and later at Iowa College, lo- cated there. When he was eighteen years old he was teaching school, but gave it up after two years and moved with his family (1867) to Southwestern Missouri, where he worked with his father during the summer and taught school during the winter. In 1875 Mr. Clark crossed the plains to Prescott, Arizona, the journey requiring three adventurous months. There he first met General Sherman. Mr. Clark engaged in various mercantile enterprises and served a year as postmaster of Prescott. In 1878 he embarked in the lumber manufacturing business with A. D. Adams, under the firm name of Clark & Adams. A year prior to this he had been made Territorial Auditor for Arizona, and served four terms, ten years in all. It was while in this position that the close friendship between Mr. Clark and Gen- eral Fremont, then Governor of Arizona, was formed. Branching out, he became interested in railroads and was instrumental in securing the passage of a bill by the Legislature in 1885, granting a subsidy of $4000 per mile for a railroad to be built from Prescott to connect with the Atlantic & Pacific Railway at Seligman. He helped to organize the original company, being elected secretary and treasurer. Within a year the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad was operating. Ten years later it was succeeded by the pres- ent Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway. In 1891, Mr. Clark came to Los Angeles and joined General Sherman. He was made Vice President and Manager of the Los An- geles Consolidated Electric Railway, now the Los Angeles Railway. All the lines were consolidated in 1894, when Mr. Clark ac- quired the local Pasadena lines and con- structed the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Interurban Road, the beginning of the great Pacific Electric Railway System. The rebuilding in 1896 of the old steam road between Los Angeles and Santa Monica marked the start of the Los Angeles Pacific Company's lines, of which Mr. Clark was President and Manager until the fall of 1909, when the property passed to the control of the S. P. Co. This property was his special pride and through the work of General Sherman and himself was made one of the finest inter- urban railroads in the county. It also served to build up much of the foothill country around Los Angeles. Another progressive venture of Mr. Clark was the starting for the Los Angeles Pacific Railway, of plans for the first sub- way, to be run out of Los Angeles, right- of-way for which he was instrumental in securing. In addition to his railroad development, Mr. Clark has done much for the develop- ment of real estate in and around Los An- geles. Associated with General Sherman, he has large oil holdings in some of the most promising sections of the California oil fields, and also is the owner of considerable beach property. Most of his property inter- ests are operated under the Clark & Sherman Land Company. Mr. Clark is a member of the following organizations: President of the Mt. Hood Railway and Power Co., President of Clark & Sherman Land Co., a holding company; Vice President Main Street Co., member California Club, University Club and Los Angeles Country Club, member of Board of Trustees Pomona College, President Board of Trustees First Congregational Church, also Congregational Union, member of Y. M. C. A. Board and other corporations. He has done a great deal of good for Los Angeles and vicinity, and has given aid to churches and other worthy works. 24 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OLLIDAY, WILLIAM HARRISON, Banker, Los Angeles, Cal, was born at St. Louis, Mo., July 27, 1863. His father was Samuel Newton Holliday and his mother Maria (Fithian) Holliday. He married Flora Adeline Bald- win at Los Angeles, October 30, 1889, and to them was born one child, Maria Louise Hol- liday. Mr. Holliday re- ceived his early education in the schools of St. Louis and upon completion of his studies there went to Phillips Exeter Academy to prepare for university work. Graduating from the Academy in 1881 he entered Harvard Univer- sity the following year and was graduated in 1886. Upon completion of his education Mr. Hol- liday went on a tour of Europe. He remained abroad for an entire year, visiting practically every place of interest in the Old World, and then re- turned to the United States. His first employment was in a bank, and the story of his career, begin- ning there, is the chron- icle of a financier growing up with the business. He went to Los Angeles upon his return to his native land, and in May, 1887, became a bookkeeper in the Farmers and Merchants' Bank of that city. He remained there for two months and then took charge of the books of the old Southern California Na- tional Bank of Los Angeles. When the Southern California National Bank was succeeded by the Merchants' Na- tional Bank, Mr. Holliday went along with the assets and good will, and has been with that bank ever since, a matter of more than 24 years. In quick succession he went from the bookkeeper's desk to the teller's window, from that to assistant cashier, and in 1895 he was made cashier of the institution. This of- fice he held until 1906, when he was elected president of the bank, a trust he has admin- istrated to the present. That, in a few words, is the story of how Mr. Holliday rose to the top of his profession and acquired the knowl- WILLIAM H. HOLLIDAY edge which makes him one of the leading financiers of the West, but it does not tell the whole story of his activity in the commercial and banking life of the city of his adoption, for he has not confined himself, in later years, to directing the affairs of one bank. Instead, he is interested in a multitude of concerns and the busy life he leads may be gleaned from the following lists : He is president of the First National Bank of Covina, Cal., and is on the Board of Directors of the Security Savings Bank of Los Angeles, the First National Bank of Azusa, Cal. ; First National Bank of Glendale, Cal., and the First National Bank of Artesia, Cal. ; Title Guar- antee and Trust Co. of Los Angeles, and Globe Grain and Milling Co. of the same city. The banks in which Mr. Holliday is interested form a financial chain in and around Los Angeles and control many millions of dollars, in the adminis- tration of which he is a powerful factor. In addition to the above, other financial as- sociations claim much of his attention : Mr. Holli- day is president and chair- man of the executive committee of the Los Angeles Clearing House Association, which is generally regarded as the barometer of the city's prosperity. With one exception Mr. Holliday is the oldest active banker, in point of service, in the City of Los Angeles. He has been con- tinually in harness for nearly a quarter of a century, and, with the exception of the two months he put in with the Farmers and Merchants' Bank when he first went to Los Angeles, has been connected all that time with the same house. Individually and as a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Holli- day has aided greatly in the upbuilding and modernizing of Los Angeles and is regarded as one of its civic leaders. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic Shriner and a member of the Califor- nia and the Los Angeles Countrv CluBs. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 25 IXDLEY, WALTER, Physi- cian and Surgeon, Los An- geles, California, was born in ^lonrovia, Indiana, January 13, 1852. His father was Mil- ton Lindley, distinguished in the history of Los Angeles, and his mother, Mary Eliza- beth (Banta) Lindley. He is of Quaker stock. His father was for several years Treasurer of Los An- geles County and at his death was a member of the Board of Supervisors of the County. On his mother's side his ances- tors fought in the Revolu- tionary, Indian, Mexican and Civil Wars, four of his mother's brothers be- ing United States officers in the latter. He is a graduate of Minneapolis High School, Keen's School of Anat- omy, Philadelphia; Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, leaving the latter in 1875. After graduation he went to Los Angeles to prac- tice medicine and since that time has been one of the greatest con- structive factors in the modernizing of that city. As Health Officer of Los Angeles, mem- ber of the Board of Education and Superin- tendent of the County Hospital of Los An- geles in the days when the city was emerg- ing from the conditions of a Mexican pueblo, Dr. Lindley did much for the future of the place. Dr. Lindley was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Orphans' Home, the Los Angeles Humane Society and the College of Medicine of the University of Southern Cal- ifornia, the latter one of the foremost insti- tutions of the kind in the United States. He also founded the Whittier State School of California, a reformatory institution for the youth of both sexes, which has been of in- estimable penologic and educative value. He is President of the Board of Trustees. DR. WALTER LINDLEY His greatest work, however, is the Cali- fornia Hospital, undoubtedly one of the fin- est private hospitals in the world. He founded the institution and is Secretary and Medical Director. Following the founding of the hospital, he organized the College Training School for Nurses, the first of its kind established in Southern Cal- ifornia. He is President of the California State Board of Medical Exami- ners, ex-President of the State Medical Society, former Vice Presi- dent of the National Conference on Charities and Correction, and was appointed by President Grover Cleveland a s Pacific Coast Delegate to the great Inter- national Prison Congress held in Paris in the year 1895. He was given the degree of LL. D. by St. Vincent's Col- lege. He is a director of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles, and holds a position financial integrity. As a mem- Board of Directors of the of solid ber of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Committee on Publications and Statistics he is doing much toward the advancement of Southern California. His learned and facile pen has found valuable employment in the Southern California- Prac- titioner, a publication which he created a quarter of a century ago and which is now the recognized medical journal of the State. This magazine he still edits and publishes. His literary works include : "California of the South" (in third edition) ; "Shakespeare's Traducers: an Historical Sketch"; numerous papers and pamphlets on medical, social and climatological subjects. Dr. Lindley is a member of the Califor- nia, University and Union League Clubs, the Los Angeles Humane Society and the His- torical Society of Los Angeles. 26 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY AN NUYS, ISAAC NEWTON, cap- italist, Los Angeles, California, was born at West Sparta, New York, November 20, 1835. His fa- ther was Peter Van Nuys and his mother Harriet (Kerr) Van Nuys. In 1880 he married Susanna H. Lankershim, a daughter of Isaac Lankershim, at Los Angeles. There are three children — Annis H., James Benton, one of the substantial business men of Los Angeles, and Kate. In his childhood he at- tended the public schools of West Sparta, New York, sup- plementing this by entering the Academy of Lima (N. Y.), where he was a student for one year. During his school years he worked on the family farm assisting his father. At the end of Mr. Van Nuys' school days his entire time and attention was de- voted to agricultural pursuits, at which he became a master, until 1865, when he removed to California in search of health, new opportunities and an ideal agricultural country. His first location in California was at Napa, from where he shortly removed to Monticello, California, and entered the mercantile field as proprietor of a large coun- try store. After several years spent in the mercantile line he again turned to the soil, and in 1868, in company with Mr. Lankershim and others, he purchased what has since become famous as the Van Nuys and Lankershim Ranchos, located in the fertile San Fernando Valley, just outside of the present boundary line of Los Angeles. This enormous property, comprising more than 60,000 acres, he devoted to stock raising], principally sheep. He continued stock raising until 1873, when he began raising grain. In 1871 Mr. Van Nuys disposed of his store at Monticello and removed to Los Angeles. The city little realized that it was welcoming a man destined to become so great and important a factor in its upbuilding. Here he did his part in both private and public life in a manner that has enriched the city and has added to its social and business stand- ing. His labors for civic development and his standard of integrity have been recognized by all who know him. From the standpoint of historic interest at this time, when Los Angeles is in the act of developing an ideal harbor at San Pedro, the fact is of utmost I. N. VAN NUYS importance that Mr. Van Nuys, in 1876, sent forth the first two vessels loaded with wheat to clear from San Pedro (Los Angeles) Harbor. In 1880 Mr. Van Nuys and Mr. Isaac Lanker- shim organized the Los Angeles Farming and Mill- ing Company for the principal purpose of milling their own vast holdings of wheat, but which soon consumed most of the wheat raised in Southern California. This business is thriving today and Is one of the substantial institutions of the city. In 1896 he built the fa- mous Van Nuys Hotel, which has attained an en- viable international reputa- tion. This property he still owns. Mr. Van Nuys controlled the Van Nuys and Lanker- shim Ranchos until the spring of 1910, when he and his associates disposed of their entire holdings to a syndicate who have subdi- vided the property into small country estates and built magnificent boulevards and have been Instrumental in having the traction lines enter the property, placing them within easy reach of Los Angeles. This deal con- stituted one of the largest realty transactions ever con- summated in the Southwest and has involved an expendi- ture in improvements esti- mated at two million dollars. One of the principal busi- ness corners owned by Mr. Van Nuys is at the corner of Seventh and Spring streets. On this property he has started the erection of one of the finest and largest office buildings in the West. It is interesting to not© that on the site where this magnificent modem of- fice building will stand but recently stood the origi- nal Van Nuys homestead. At the time of Mr. Van Nuys' purchase of this property (1880) it was considered far in the outskirts of the city, but in this short period the growth of the city has surrounded it with modern buildings until It Is today the heart of the business district. While Mr. Van Nuys' business Interests are ex- tensive, he Is gradually shifting the management of them to his son. He is vice president of the Farmers and Mer- chants' Bank, director of the Union Bank of Sav- ings and a director of the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company. He Is a member of the California Club and the Craggs Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 27 ALCH, ALLAN CHRISTO- PHER, general manager Pa- cific Light & Power Co., the Southern California Gas Co., and vice president of the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, Los Angeles, California, is a native of New York State, being born at Valley Falls, March 13, 1864. His father was Ebenezer Atwood Balch and his mother Hannah (Hoag) Balch. On April 29, 1891, at Oakland, Cal., he mar- ried Janet Jacks. Mr. Balch was edu- c a t e d in the public schools of his native State, including the Cam- bridge High School, after which he entered Cornell University, graduating in 1889 with the degrees of M. E. and E. E. Immediately after his graduation Mr. Balch de- cided to go West, where greater opportunities were to be found. In 1889 he moved to Seattle, where he became a mem- ber of the firm of Baker, Balch & Co., and shortly after a director and gen- eral manager of the Home Electric Co. of that city. This company was merged with several other similar organizations and formed the Union Electrical Company, of which Mr. Balch was made the general manager. He remained in this position for two years, re- signing in 1891 to accept a better oflfice with the Union Power Company of Portland, Ore. He was made manager of that company, which supplied light and power in Portland, especially all power for operation of the street railways there. In 1896 he moved to Los Angeles, where he became one of the founders of the San Gabriel Electric Company, the Sierra Power Company and the Mintone Power Company, three large corporations with gigantic plans for the future development of power in the Southwest. Later these companies were merged into the corporation known as the Pacific Light and Power Company. Included in this large organization were the San Ber- nardino Gas and Electric Company, the Riv- ALLAN C. BALCH erside Power Company and the San Antonio Heights Railway Company. In conjunction with H. E. Huntington and W. G. Kerckhoff, Mr. Balch purchased the City Gas Company, now the Southern California Gas Company. The management of these gigantic institutions demanded a man of exceptional training. Mr. Balch, with his qualifications consisting of education, ex- perience and executive ability, was selected to occupy the position of general manager of the combined organizations. Other corporations have been merged into the Pa- cific Light and Power Company, all of which come under Mr. Balch's direction. In 1902 W. G. Kerck- hoff and Mr. Balch bought the San Joaquin Light and Power Com- pany, bringing the execu- tive offices of that con- cern to Los Angeles. A short time later the gas, railway and power cor- porations of Bakersfield and Merced were pur- chased by them and merged into the immense organization under the general managership of A. G. Wishon. Mr. Balch is heavily interested in the Coalinga Water and Elec- tric Company, which is in itself a corporation of no mean consequence ; also in the Fresno Irrigated Farms Company, the Summit Lake Improvement Company and the Lerdo Land Company. He is a large stockholder and holds office in the following: General Man- ager, Pacific Light and Power Company; General Manager, Southern California Gas Company ; Vice President, San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, and Vice President Coalinga Light and Power Company. He is a member of the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the Crag's Country Club of Los Angeles ; and also of the Bohemian Club and Pacific Union Club of San Francisco. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a Shriner, and while at Cornell University was a member of the Greek Letter Fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. 28 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OSENHEIM, ALFRED P., Archi- tect, Los Angeles, California, was bom in St. Louis, June 10, 1859. His father was Morris Rosen- heim and his mother, before mar- riage, was Mathilda Ottenheimer. In 1884 he married Frances Graham Wheelock, at Boston, Massachusetts. His equipment for the important works which have stamped his name permanently on the history of Los Angeles was thorough; from the public schools of St. Louis he went in 1872 to Hassel's Institute at Frank- fort-on-Main, Germany, stay- ing there over two years and achieving an absorption of broad European standards which were to be of great value to him in later life. He returned to this country and during the terms 1874-79 he was a student at Washing- ton University in St. Louis. The years 1879-81 he spent at Massachusetts Institute of Technology In Boston, as a "special student" in archi- tecture, entering the same as a third year "regular" on the strength of the record made at St. Louis. In 1884, after his mar- riage, he returned to his na- tive city, St. Louis, where he began his professional career by entering the employ of Major Francis D. Lee, then by far the leading architect of that city. Mr. Rosenheim's progress was rapid and fore- casted the remarkable success he was to attain; for Major Lee died in August of 1885, and in that brief space of time Mr. Rosenheim found himself in a po- sition to practice on his own account and succeeded to the business of his late employer January 1, 1886. At once he was placed in a foremost position in his profession by the number and importance of his undertakings; from this date until his removal to Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 1903, his work was constant and varied in all important departments of con- struction; all classes of structures mark his efforts in and about St. Louis, and as far north as Minne- apolis, south as far as New Orleans and east as far as Boston. The knowledge of the quality of his work and his comprehensiveness spread to such an extent that when in 1903 the late Herman W. Hellman de- vised his project of erecting the monument to his memory — the magnificent structure on the north- east corner of Fourth and Spring streets, he se- lected Mr. Rosenheim as his architect, after care- fully investigating his record and personally in- specting his work in the East. Mr. Rosenheim moved to Los Angeles Feb. 1, 1903, to commence actual operations on the H. W. Hellman Building. The result was such a commanding success that A. F. ROSENHEIM Mr. Rosenheim found his services in great demand, and opened permanent offices in Los Angeles, where many of his creations in beauty and utility are found among the most imposing of the buildings which grace the city. His next important undertaking was the mag- nificent building of the Hamburger Department Store at Eighth street and Broadway, an edifice which has been pronounced by experts to be the equal of any and superior to most of similar estab- lishments of the world. An- other and most impressively beautiful edifice from the capacity of Mr. Rosenheim's brain is the remarkable Sec- ond Church of Christ, Scien- tist, on West Adams street, which is deservedly a build- ing of great pride to Its congregation and a show place for visitors of discern ment of the beautiful. Other equally important structures created by Mr. Rosenheim are "Mercantile Place," the original Security Banking Room in the Hell- man Building; the premises occupied by Montgomery Brothers, Jewelers; banking room of the Merchants' National Bank, buildings for Anheuser-Busch and the Los Angeles Brewery. The list includes buildings for the Hicks-Hager Estate, for Newmark Brothers, Wm. H. Clune and for many others. His capacity tor the de- signing, both in point of ef- fectiveness and resourceful- ness, has been shown in his plans for the offices occupied by James H. Adams and Company, R. A. Rowan and Company, Robert Marsh and Company and many others. Cafe Bristol and the Bristol Pier (Santa Monica) are also his work. In no less degree than his work for commer- cial undertakings has Mr. Rosenheim achieved a deserved renown as a designer of beautiful homes. Those who have seen the houses occupied by Mr. Carl Leonardt, Robert Marsh, E. W. Britt, John Howze, Edward L. Doheny, D. A. Hamburger, A. C. Bird, Jas. B. True have enjoyed the symmetry and adroitness of perception of environment shown by Mr. Rosenheim. Mr. Rosenheim is a "Fellow Member" of the American Institute of Architects and a member of its Directory; he is a member of the Southern Cal- ifornia Chapter of the American Institute of Archi- tects and has been its past president for three con- secutive terms; he is a member and director of the Engineers and Architects' Association of Southern California and is its past president; he is also pres- ident of Architectural League of the Pacific Coast; member Municipal Art Commission of the City of Los Angeles; president Fine Arts League of Los Angeles; member Los Angeles Architectural Club; member Board of Governors of Museum of History, Science and Art, at Exposition Park, and member of the American Society for Testing Materials. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 29 -===^ ICKNELL, FREDERICK THOMP- BA SON, Physician and Surgeon, Los M Angeles, California, was born at Jericho, Chittenden County, Ver- mont, on April 20, 1842, his par- ents being Nathaniel and Fanny Thompson Bicknell. In the family blood is that of Hannah Dustin and R. H. Dana. Dr. Bicknell was twice married, his first wife being Etta Cooper of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and to them a daughter, now Mrs. Etta Florence Bicknell Zombro, was bom at Neosho, Missouri. On December 6, 1882, he married Carrie E. Fargo at San Francisco. Dr. Bicknell resided in Vermont until 1852, when he moved with his parents to Lake Mills, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, where he worked on his father's farm and at- tended district school until he was seventeen years old. Then he attended Albion Academy, at Albion, Wiscon- sin, where he studied during the fall terms and taught school in the winter terms. On August 15, 1862, he en- listed in the army in Com- pany A, Twenty-third Wis- consin Regiment, and re- mained in active service un- til mustered out at the end of the war, July 4, 1865. While in the army his ser- vice was in the Department of the Mississippi, first under General Grant, from the beginning to the end of the Vicksburg campaign. Then through the Red River campaign under General Banks and General A. J. Smith. Then came the Mobile, Alabama, campaign under General Canby. Throughout the entire war Dr. Bicknell was a soldier in the ranks, and while his discharge re- cords thirteen pitched battles, it does not tell of the imnumbered skirmishes and scouting expeditions where danger and death were no less in evidence than in the most active battles. A blistered scalp from the sharpshooter's bullet, knocked down by the concussion of a nearby exploding shell, and a gun shattered in his hands, were but a few of the close calls experienced by him. Upon receiving his discharge in 1865 he returned to Madison, Wisconsin, and entered the State Uni- versity, studying there and working in summer on the farm until 1867, when he began studying medi- cine in the ofTice of Dr. John Faville of Madison ; he then attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, graduating in 1870. Mill mr i ^Btami DR. F. T. BICKNELL In the fall of that same year Dr. Bicknell set- tled in the City of Neosho, Missouri, in partner- ship with Dr. Lewis Wills. In the spring of 1872 Dr. Bicknell returned to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and married Etta Cooper, and returned at once to Neosho. A daughter was born to them, but Mrs. Bicknell survived the event but a little more than a month. In the fall of 1873 Dr. Bicknell went with his old preceptor. Dr. John Faville, to New York and took a postgraduate course at Bellevue College and Hos- pital. After a short return to Wisconsin, he went to Cali- fornia in April, 1874. Find- ing the Panamint mining ex- citement on, he went as physician and surgeon to that region for the Panamint Mining and Milling Com- pany, at that time owned by United States Senators Jones and Stewart of Ne- vada. On the close of the camp he served in the same capacity at the Caso Mine of Darwin, and then practiced at Independence, in Inyo County, where he had charge of the County Hospital. He later went to Bishop Creek, a larger town of the valley. In the summer of 1881 Dr. Bicknell returned to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, to get his little daughter. Miss Etta, whom his mother-in-law had been fostering; he there be- came engaged to his present wife, who was Miss Carrie Fargo, and returned to Los Angeles. Miss Fargo came to San Francisco, at which place Dr. Bicknell met her, and the marriage took place December 6, 1882. After his marriage Dr. Bicknell returned at once to Los Angeles and since that time his only busi- ness has been the practice of medicine and surgery. Among the leading professional organizations with which Dr. Bicknell is associated are the fol- lowing: He is a member of the American Medical Association and of his State and County societies. He is ex-President Southern California Medical Society; ex-President Los Angeles County Medical Society; ex-President of the California Hospital, and ex-Professor Gyocology of the Medi- cal College of Southern California. He is a member of the University Club, of the Chamber of Commerce, and of the Masonic Order, Southern California Lodge, No. 278, F. and A. M. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, Stanton Post. 30 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ORGAN, OCTAVIUS, archi- tect, 'Los Angeles, California, was born in Canterbury, Eng- land, on October 20, 1850. Giles Chapman Morgan was his father and Caroline Tyler (Adams) Morgan was his mother. Mr. Morgan was married in 1884 to Margaret Susan Wel- ler Offenbacker, and two children have been born of the union, Octav- ius Weller and Jessie Car- oline Morgan. Mr. Morgan was edu- cated at Kent House Academy, at the Thomas Cross Classic School, and at the Sydney Cooper Art School in Canterbury. It was during his pre- liminary education that he began the study of his profession, as he was at the same time employed in Canterbury in the of- fice of F. A. Gilhaus, an architect and contractor of high repute in Eng- land. He followed this practical study for five years, when he decided to seek his fortune in a new country, and selected the United States as the scene of his efforts. He arrived in this country in 1871, coming via Canada and locating in Denver, Colorado, where he found employ- ment for a time in the office of a Mr. Nichols, who, as was the practice in those days, com- bined the work of an architect with that of a builder and contractor. Denver was at that time in an incipient stage of development and architecture was about the least thing in demand ; the city only had a population of four thousand and at the time he was there Mr. Morgan saw two thousand Ute Indians camped in the Platte River bottoms. Mining was the absorbing occupation then, and Mr. Morgan soon quitted the office for the mountains and traversed the greater portion of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Nevada, seeking on his golden quest, il- lusive fortune ; finally he came to California, still mining, and secured a claim on Lytle Creek in .San Bernardino county; but his at- tention was soon called to the rapidly grow- OCTAVIUS MORGAN ing Los Angeles, and he abandoned his pan and rocker and made his home in that city. He reached Los Angeles in June, 1874, hav- ing been three years on his journey from Denver. He immediately saw the professional pos- sibilities of the city and associated himself at once with R. F. Kysor, a pioneer architect; this firm continued until 1888, when Mr. Kysor retired from business and since that time the concern has been Morgan and Walls. Mr. Morgan has incessantly followed his vocation ex- cepting a time spent in 1878-80 in a tour of the East, and again in 1898- 90, when he traveled in Europe. To Mr. Morgan be- longs the proud record of having up to a few years ago done fully one-third of all the architectural work of the city ; even now, when the building operations have grown from the $600,000 which it was when he began his professional career, to the enormous total of $12,- 000,000 per annum, he continues to do ten per cent of the work. Some of his principal works have been, the city's first modern hos- pital, the Sisters of Charity hospital and the first high school, on the site of the present Court House. More recent buildings are the Farmers and Mer- chants' Bank edifice, the Van Nuys and the W. P. Story buildings; he built the original residences on both the Kerckhoff and the I. W. Hellman lots, tearing them down in the course of time to replace them with the pres- ent modern business blocks. His activity has always been displayed in city affairs, and he has invariably been with the progressive elements of the community; in 1898, and again in 1900, he served as a member of the Freeholders' Charter Board. He is a member and a past president of the Engineers and Architects' Association, the Southern California Chapter of the Amer- ican Institute of Architects, and the Califor- nia State Board of Architecture ; a member of the California and Jonathan clubs, a Mason and an Odd Fellow. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 31 ESS, STODDARD, Banker, Los Angeles, California, was born at Fox Lake, Wisconsin, December 3, 1856. His father was George Jess and mother Marion Theresa Judd. George Jess, like many of the middle-westerners of those days, made the eventful trip across the plains in 1850. On arriving in California he mined for several years, but returned to Wiscon- sin. On his mother's side Mr. Jess comes from a family of distinguished Americans. Stoddard Judd, grandfather of Stoddard Jess, served his district in the Legislature of the State of New York for several terms, and later, on receiving an ap- pointment from Presi- dent Polk as receiver of the United States Land Office in Green Bay, Wis- consin, moved to that State, where he spent a greater part of his life. He was a member of the Wisconsin Constitutional Conventions and at dif- ferent times a member of both houses of the State Legislature. On January IS, 1871 Mr. Jess married Carrie Helen Chenoweth at Monroe, Wisconsin. As a result of this mar- riage there were two children, Jennie C. (de- ceased), and George Benjamin Jess. Stoddard Jess attended the public schools of Fox Lake, Wisconsin, and entered the University of Wisconsin in 1870. He gradu- ated there in 1876. On closing his college career Mr. Jess commenced his business life with the First National Bank of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. A year later he became cashier of a banking firm, George Jess and Company, at Waupun, Wis., of which firm Mr. Jess' father was the head. He continued as cashier until 1885. In the meantime he had taken a very active part in the civic proceedings of the city, hav- ing served on the City Council up to 1884, when he was elected Mayor of the city. A year later he refused a re-election owing to the failing health of his father, who wished to leave for California. STODDARD JESS With his father, Mr. Jess settled at Po- mona, Cal., where he opened the First Na- tional Bank of that city, June, 1886, becom- ing cashier, which position he held until 1898. On the arrival of Mr. Jess at Pomona that city was in its infancy. Mr. Jess immediate- ly took an active part in its development. He became first treasurer of the city and partici-- pated in the organization of its Board of Trade, of which he was made first president. He was for several years a member of the Board of Library Trustees, and served as its president during 1902-1904. In 1886 on the advice of his phy- sician he gave up his pub- lic work. On moving to Los Angeles, in 1904, he was made vice president of the First National Bank of that city, which posi- tion he retains today. Into this bank he introduced the system of abandoning the usual method of hav- ing separate paying and receiving tellers, and has instead divided the bank into a number of separate departments in alphabeti- cal subdivisions. Each has its clientele under the control of one teller who both receives and pays. The system has been so successful that it has been adopted by a number of large bank- ing institutions. Mr. Jess is also a director of the Los An- geles Trust and Savings Bank. He is a mem- ber of the Clearing House Committee, and is conceded to be among the most conservative bankers in the State. As a widely known and respected authority in his profession, he has made numerous addresses on banking subjects, and has written many articles there- on. He is known as one of the most progress sive and representative citizens of Southern California. He was chairman of the Los An- geles Consolidation Committee, and is now president of the Harbor Commission of Los Angeles. He is a member of the California, Jona- than and Union League Clubs of Los An- geles; is a Knight Templar, an Elk and a Thirty-second Degree Mason. 32 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY TIREY L. FORD NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 33 ORD, TIREY LAFAYETTE, Attor- ney and General Counsel for the United Railroads, San Francisco, California, was born in Monroe County, Missouri, Decemljer 29, 1857, the son of Jacob Harrison Ford and Mary Winn (Abernathy) Ford. He comes from a long line of agricultural forbears and was himself bom on a farm. In the first ship that sailed from Holland to Virginia, in January, 1700, was a band of French Huguenots whom William, Prince of Orange, after he became King of Eng- land, had invited to make their home in America, and among these first French immigrants were Pierre Faure (later called Peter Ford), his wife and child, his brother, Daniel, and his two sisters. From the time that this Pierre Faure first settled on his allotted land along the James River, in Vir- ginia, to the death of Jacob Harrison Ford, father of the subject of this sketch, in Kansas City, Mis- souri, in November, 1908, his American ancestors have been tillers of the soil. Mr. Ford married Miss Emma Byington, daughter of the Hon. Lewis Byington, one of the leading pioneers of Sierra County, In Downieville, California, February 1, 1888. To them were born three children — Relda (now Mrs. Fred V. F. Stott) and Byington, and Tlrey Lafayette Ford, Jr. The phrase "born," or "raised on the farm" has been elevated in America from a term somewhat jocular to one of something like distinction, such is the character of the men chiefly responsible for the elevation. And from milking cows at daybreak, husking corn and performing other feats on some cultivated acres, even though the latter be situated in the Show-Me State of Missouri, to an attorney generalship and the post of general counsel of one of the richest corporations in the country Is a progression that doesn't mar the acquired nature of the foregoing phrase. This, in brief, is the ca- reer, at a glance, of General Ford. The district school of the county, 1863 to 1873, and the hign school, from which he was graduated in 1876, gave him his early education. During these years, however, he worked at night and on Sat- urdays "doing chores" to pay his expenses, and on the other weekdays rode his father's mules to the schoolhouse. When he was 19 years of age he reached Cali- fornia via an emigrant train, February 11, 1877, and started his Western life as a ranch hand in the Sacramento Valley. This healthful, if not especially remunerative, occupation held him in Butte and Colusa counties for the next two years. But on January 1, 1880, stimulated by the posses- sion of a few hundred dollars he had accumulated, and by a legal ambition he had perchance inherited from his mother's father, an attorney, he began the study of the law In the office of Colonel Park Hen- shaw at Chlco. Less than three years of this suf- ficed to fit him for admittance to the bar, in August, 1882. The outlook he found on his return to Chlco, however, was not brilliant. With neither office, money nor clients he became depressed and wrote to his father for a little financial encouragement. The sire answered In a letter full of wise advice, but lacking the more substantial stimulus. As the son was not of the quitting variety, however, he managed to make his way to Orovllle, where he hung out his shingle, and, pending the desired lure thereof, helped his little income by keeping books for some of the merchants of the town. In January, 1885, he moved to Downieville, where his legal efforts met with a little better re- ward. His progress thenceforward was rapid, marked by his election in 1888, and again in 1890, to the District Attorneyship of Sierra County, to the State Senate in 1892, wherein he served from 1893 to 1895, and, on his change of residence to San Francisco, by his appointment to the attorney- ship of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. In all these offices he made a brilliant record. As a Senator he had the special distinction of vot- ing, with only one colleague, against the "free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1," and as attorney for the Harbor Commission solved the difficult legal problem, thereby giving to San Francisco the area known as Channel street, now a part of the city's harbor. In January, 1899, after considerable opposition frem the regular Republican organization, so called, he became Attorney General of California. The policy to which he adhered throughout his term he outlined to his deputies thus: "With lawmaking and with State policies this office has nothing to do. The Governor and the Legislature will attend to that. Our business is to know the law, to dis- close it as we find it and to protect and maintain the State's legal rights." Among his noteworthy acts in this capacity was his argument on rehearing before the Supreme Court whereby he secured a reversal of the former decision touching the inheritance tax on the Le- land Stanford estate and thus converted the $250,- 000 Involved to the use of the public schools of San Francisco. General Ford's appointment, in August, 1902, as general counsel for the United Railroads obliged him to resign his Attorney Generalship. To insure the continuance of the office on the plane he him- self had chosen, he selected for his successor his friend and former mountain neighbor, U. S. Webb, at that time the District Attorney of Plumas County. In this instance he triumphed again over the opposition of the so-called regular Republican organization. In April, 1905, after some hesitation, he accepted the appointment from Governor Pardee to member- ship on the State Board of Prison Directors. Here, too, his work has been distinguished by the same system of thoroughness he had applied to all his previous offices. His creation of the special bureau for paroled prisoners, by means of which 985 pris- oners have been paroled, and his able and elab- orate report on the principal reformatories in the United States have added not a little lustre to his record as a public officer. General Ford is a member of the Pacific Union, Bohemian, Union League, Press, Transportation, Commercial, Amaurot and Southam Clubs, as well as of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences of Philadelphia, the American Prison As- sociation, the American Humane Association and the Golden Gate Commandery, K. T. For many years he has been one of the trustees of the Me- chanics' Institute. He is also a golf enthusiast and characteristically has reduced his operations on the links to a system. 34 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY UTTON, WILLIAM JAY, President of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, San Francisco, California, was born in Bangor, Maine, Jan- uary 23, 1847, the son of Henry Button and Frances Cushing (Stevens) Button. Of Eng- lish origin, he counts among his distinguished American ancestors his paternal great-grand- father. Colonel Samuel Button of Revolutionary fame, and a maternal for- bear. Chief Justice Cush- ing, who had the addition- al honor of swearing in George Washington as President of the United States. On Becember IS, 1868, Mr. Button was married in San Francisco to Miss Mary Grayson Heydenfeldt, and is the father of Robert McMil- lan, Henry Stevens, Wil- liam Grayson, Frank Cushing, Mary Page and Mrs. Gertrude (Button) Howell. His education may be summed up as follows : A few years in a primary school in Bangor, the public schools in San Francisco from 1855 to 1860, the next three years at the San Francisco High School, and from 1863 to 1867 at the old City College, where he took a course in classics and higher math- ematics, whence he was graduated into the North British Insurance Co. as junior clerk. In a few months he left that company to organize the Marine Bepartment of the Fire- man's Fund. Thenceforth his rise was rapid, marked on the way up by his selection as secretary of the Marine Bepartment in 1869, assistant secretary in 1873, general secretary of the company in 1880, vice president and manager in 1890, and by his election to the presidency in 1900. Buring these years Mr. Button has built a lasting reputation as an expert in ma- rine underwriting. His company has today the most extensive system of agents of any American company west of the Ohio River and is the only California organization of any kind represented in every State and city of the United States. WILLIAM J. BUTTON The Fireman's Fund was a heavy loser in the San Francisco disaster of 1906, and, with all its records burned, its local assets largely unsalable and facing almost 6,000 claims, ag- gregating over $11,000,000, the case certainly looked hopeless. Under Mr. Button's direc- tion a new company — the Fireman's Fund Corporation — was formed, with a million dol- lars of new capital and a million of surplus. The new corporation then reinsured all the outstand- ing policies and continued the business just as though no disaster had oc- curred. Instead of 35 or 40 cents on the dollar, which experts reported might be realized within three years under a re- ceivership, the company paid all policy-holding claimants their first 50 cents within three months. Within a year the agency plant and out- standing business throughout the United States were repurchased from the corporation, its stockholders' subscrip- tions returned to them in cash or re-invested in the stock of the old compa- ny, and in April, 1907, the old Fireman's Fund re- sumed its old position. For ten years Mr. But- ton was pres. or vice pres. of the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, and for 20 years chairman of legislative committee; pres. Board of Marine Underwriters of San Fran- cisco 21 years, and 35 years a member of its adjustment committee. He was on the com- mittee of three who selected the executive committee of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and is pres. of the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Home Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Chairman San Francisco Municipal conference of 1911, vice pres. Merchants' Ex- change of the California Bevelopment Board, treas, Presidio and Ferries Railroad, chair- man of Trustees First Congregational Church, director San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, vice pres. Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses. Clubs: Union League, Commercial, Pa- cific-Union, Commonwealth, Presidio Golf, S. F. Golf and Country and Claremont Country. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 35 INKLE, FREDERICK CE- CIL, Consulting Engineer, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Viroqua, Wis- consin, where he waa born May 5, 1865. His father was Thurston Finkle and his mother was Sophia (Mich- elet) Finkle, a descendant of the cele- brated French historian, Jules Michelet. Mr. Finkle was mar- ried on September 18, 1901, in San Francisco, to Miss Priscilla Ann Jones, a son being born of the union, Frederick Cecil Finkle, Jr. After graduating from the public schools of his native town, Mr. Finkle took a special course of engineering at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, ex- tending from 1882 until 1887, when he came to California, settling at San Bernardino, where he at once plunged into impor- tant engineering employ- ment. From 1887 until 1888 he was chief engineer for the North Riverside Land and Water Company, the Jarupa Land and Water Company, and the Vivi- enda Water Company, for irrigation systems costing approximately six hundred thousand dollars. From 1889 to 1893 he was city engineer of San Bernardino, during the construction of the water works, of streets, and many other municipal improvements, and at the same time as consulting engineer for the State of California for water works and for sewer systems for state institutions. From 1893 to 1897 Mr. Finkle was chief engineer for the East Riverside Irrigation district, the Riverside-Highland W^ater Com- pany and the Grapeland Irrigation district, and from 1897 to 1906 he served notably as chief engineer for the Southern California Edison Company and allied concerns, in charge of designs and construction of seven hydro-electric power plants costing ten mil- lion dollars. Since 1906 Mr. Finkle has been retained as consulting engineer and expert in hy F. C. FINKLE water supply companies in California, Ore- gon, Colorado, Arizona, Mexico and other regions. He is consulting engineer for thirty or more large corporations, partly mutual water companies and partly public service corporations. Among these are : All the mutual water companies in the Imperial Valley, Cal. ; the Southern California Edison Company, Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company, Redlands and Yucaipa Land and Water Company, Mount Hood Railway and Power Com- pany of Portland, Ore., and many others. Mr. Finkle's most im- portant works and those which have attracted world-wide attention are the Kern River plant No. 1 of the Edison Company, the largest impulse water wheel plant in the world; Mill Creek No. 3 plant of the Edison Company, op- erating under nearly 2000 foot head, and Ar- rowhead Dam at Little Bear \^alley, the highest earth dam in the world. Mr. Finkle ranks as one of but few men who are considered the high- est authorities on hy- draulic power, irrigation and domestic water sup- ply, and hydrographic geology in the world. He has contributed somewhat to engineering publications on these subjects. He built and owns the Finkle Building, Los Angeles, a beautiful eight-story rein- forced concrete structure occupied by the Hotel Snow ; he owns the Monitor Apart- ments at Ocean Park and other properties. As a conservative Democrat Mr. Finkle has taken occasional interest in politics. He belongs to the American Institute of Electri- cal Engineers, the American Society of Irri- gation Engineers, the So. Cal. Engineers and Architects' Association and the So. Cal. Chap- ter of the American Institute of Electrical En- gineers. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles, the Bohemia Club and Sierra Club of San Francisco, the Denver Club of Denver, the Automobile Club of So. Cal., and the Automobile Association of draulic work for a score of irrigation and America. 36 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OUDGE, HERBERT J., At- torney-at-Law, Los Angeles, California, a native of Lon- don, England, was born in 1863, on April 26; his parents were JNathaniel Edmund Goudge and Agnes (Bateman) Goudge. He was niarried on February 1, 1891, to Miss Nellie Agnes Tighe, in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Goudge have three children: Agnes, George Philip and Mildred Goudge. He attended first the City of London School, then the City of London College, and then Kings College in London, fol- lowing a course of legal studies, for which he had a natural inclination. But finding his health failing, he was forced to forego the professional career contemplated and begin a quest for strength, one that hap- pily proved eminently successful. He spent two years in travel about his own country and on the con- tinent of Europe, after- wards coming to New York, where a branch of his family have lived for _ , generations. There he •'■ remained for a short time and then projected a lengthy journey to Panama, which he under- took and which led him later to the west coast of Central America and Mexico, and ' finally to San Francisco, where he arrived in 1888. California presented its varied attrac- tions and rcFources to him, and after travers- ing the State from San Francisco to San Diego, with a view to a life in the open, he entered farming, moving to Ventura County, where he set out a very large tract of land to citrus and deciduous fruits. While pursuing the life of a farmer with a high degree of success, Mr. Goudge found the lure of the law still insistent, and he resumed his readings and studies, adapt- ing himself readily to the requirements of the profession as existing in California, and was admitted to practice in the Superior Courts of Ventura County in 1893. Almost immediately (1894) he was ad- mitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the State of California, and in 1907 he at- tained the right to appear before the highest tribunal of the country and successfully ar- gued his iirst case before the United States Supreme Court. Soon after his admission to the California bar Mr. Goudge found that his business grew so rapidly that he was encouraged to place himself in a larger circle and more pro- nounced center of affairs, so he removed to Los Angeles in 1895, where he engaged in the practice of his profes- sion. He took a decided in- terest in municipal af- fairs, and was led to ac- cept the position of First Assistant City Attorney in 1901, a place that he continued to fill with credit to himself and val- uable results to the city until 1906. During his term of of- fice Mr. Goudge distin- guished himself by his work in connection w>th the legislation required by the tremendous growth of the city. Both in construc- tive legislation and in the presentation of such matters before the Senate and Assembly at Sacramento Mr. Goudge proved of great worth to the community. He played a prominent part in many impor- tant events in the history of the city, such as the taking over of the City Water Company's plant, the acquisition of the Owens River water rights and the preservation of the Los Angeles River bed from private exploitation. On his retirement from office Mr. Goudge became a member of the new firm of Coch- ran, Williams, Goudge and Chandler, which after the retirement of Mr. George I. Coch- ran from practice became Williams, Goudge and Chandler. He is a director of the Home Savings Bank and president of the Cotenants Co. He is a member of the Southwest So- ciety, Archaeological Institute of America and L. A. County Horticultural Society, the California, I'nion League and Sunset Clubs. GOUDGE NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST i7 AYMONVILLE, BERNARD, Vice President of the Fire- man's Fund Insurance Com- pany of San Francisco, Cali- fornia, was born on March 24, 1860, at Bowmanville, Cook County, Illinois (now a part of Chicago). His ancestors came from the Ardennes and the Rhine Provinces, where for many generations they were prom- inent in the iron mining and smelting industry. His grandfather, Joseph Faymonville, settled in the country which subse- quently became Cook County, Illinois, in 1837, when Chicago was still known as Fort Dear- born. He is the son of Tillman J. Faymonville, eldest son of Joseph Fay- monville, above referred to, and of Katherine (Fisher) Faymonville. Mr. Faymonville was married at San Jose, Cali- fornia, on April 19, 1881, to Miss Dora Belle Ries, a descendant of an old Holland Dutch family of Northern New York. Their three children are Le Roy B. (now de- ceased), Philip R. and Bernard Faymonville, Jr. The family has resided in San Francisco since March, 1882. During 1865 to attended the public schools of his native town, then took a two years' course in the preparatory school of Professor J. P. Lauth in Chicago. He entered the employ of a real estate and brokerage firm in the same city in 1875, and for the two following years applied him- self to mastering the varied duties and work usual to such oiifices located in a growing and pushing community. Broader opportunities and the lure of California drew him to this State in Septem- ber, 1877. Settling first at Fresno, then a newly established county seat, he secured employment in an abstract and real estate oflfice, and soon acquired on his own account a number of insurance agencies. After sev- eral years, by means of perseverance and consolidation, he had built up one of the largest local insurance agencies in Central BERNARD FAYMONVILLE 1873 he California, consisting of forty-three com- panies. During this period he was also actively interested in promoting the colonization of Fresno County. The fire insurance profession appealed to him strongly, and realizing that progress and success depended on broader opportunities and a larger field, he accepted on March 1 1882, the position of Spe- cial Agent for the whole Pacific Coast for the Fireman's Fund Insur- ance Company. Since that date he has been continuously in the employ of that distin- g u i s h e d corporation, sharing its successes, as well as the reverses which overtook it during the trying times follow- ing the great San Fran- cisco disaster. From this it emerged stronger and more powerful than ever, and in a manner that will always reflect the great- est credit on the State of California. In 1887 Mr. Faymon- ville was elected Assist- ant Secretary of the com- pany, and three years later he became its Secre- tary. In 1893 he was elected Second Vice President and First Vice Presi- dent in 1900. This position he now holds. He is Vice President of the Executive Com- mittee of the Board of Underwriters of the Pacific, President of the Underwriters' Fire Patrol, and President of the Underwriters' Inspection Bureau. He has served as Supervisor and as Presi- dent of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the City of San Francisco. Mr. Faymonville has contributed various articles on insurance to papers and periodi- cals devoted to that subject, and also to associations. He is much interested in club life, being a member of the Pacific Union Club, the Bohemian Club, the Olympic Club, and of the San Francisco Golf and Country Club, and the Presidio Golf Club. He is also a member of the Country Club of Bear Valley, in Marin County. 38 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY RAVES, JACKSON ALPHEUS, Banker and formerly Attorney-at- Law, Los Angeles, California, was born in Hauntown, Clinton County, Iowa, on December 5, 1852. His father was John Q. Graves, and his mother Katherine Jane (Haun) Graves. Mr. Graves was married October 23, 1879, in Los Angeles, to Alice H. Griffith, the issue be- ing: Alice Graves Stewart, wife of H. F. Stewart; Selwyn B. Graves, deceased (March 1, 1908); Katherine Graves Armstrong, wife of E. S. Armstrong; Jackson A. Graves, deceased (March 23, 1910), and Francis Porter Graves. The Graves family re- moved to California in Oc- tober, 1857, locating first in Marysvllle, Yuba County, where Mr. Graves received his first education from the public schools of that town. He later attended the San Francisco High School, from which he graduated in 1869. His home in the meantime had been moved to San Mateo County, California (1867). After graduating from the San Francisco High School, Mr. Graves en- tered St. Mary's College, San Francisco, graduating from that institution in May, 1872, with the degree of A. B., and in 1873 from the same college with the degree of A. M he began the study of law in the offices of the firm of Eastman and Neumann in San Francisco. On June 5, 1875, Mr. Graves moved to Los An- geles, where he continued his law studies with Mr. Eastman, who had gone to Los Angeles and formed a partnership with the late Judge Brunson. On January 13, 1876, Mr. Graves was admitted to prac- tice by the Supreme Court of the State of Califor- nia, and then was formed the law firm of Brunson, Eastman and Graves. From that time on until he forsook the law for the intricacies of finance Mr. Graves had a con- tinuous advancement in position in his pro- fession. The firm of Brunson, Eastman and Graves was dissolved in June, 1878, and the young attorney practiced alone with most satisfactory results until June 1, 1880, when he associated himself with the late John S. Chapman in the firm of Graves and Chapman; this connection endured until January 1, 1885, when this firm was dissolved and Mr. Graves united his ability with that of Henry W. O'Melveny, the designation being Graves and O'Melveny, the firm being formed on April 10, 1888; later Mr. J. H. Shankland was admitted to the firm and the title read Graves, O'Melveny and Shankland until January 1, 1904, when Mr. Graves withdrew from the practice in order to assume the position of Vice President of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles. He had already, back in 1901, became Vice Presi- dent, the President being I. W. Hellman, whose enlarged interests about this time called him to San Francisco, and in June, 1903, Mr. Graves entered actively into the management of the bank. From this time the Indi- cation of his talent for busi- ness affairs which Mr. Graves had given by his wise investments and ca- pacity for foresight were thoroughly justified; he or- ganized the first title and abstract company in the city; then his activities took the direction of oil matters and he built, with Edward Strasburg, storage tanks near the Llewellyn Iron Works, having organized the Oil Storage and Transporta- tion Company; this property T A PRAVFc; *^ ^°'^ owned by the Amal- J. A. UKAVlib gamated Oil Company; since after which that period his interests in oil properties through- out the State have vastly increased. Another industry in which Mr. Graves Is largely interested is orange growing. He started in grow- ing citrus fruit more than thirty years ago, and de- spite his increasing responsibility in connection with other interests, still is active in his groves. Besides his active place as Vice President of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank, Mr. Graves is Vice President of the Southern Trust Company, President of the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank of Redondo, California; President of the United States National Bank of Azusa, California, and is a director in the following institutions: Security Savings Bank and the United States Na- tional Banks of Los Angeles; of the Whlttier Na- tional Bank of Whlttier, California; of the First National Bank of Monrovia, California; of the First National Bank of El Monte, California; of the Na- tional Bank of Long Beach, and of the Long Beach Savings Bank and Trust Company. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 39 AVIE, ROBERT PARSELL, Sugar Manufacturer and Land Owner, Eos Angeles, California, was born at Flush- ing, Genesee County, Mich- igan, August 22, 1867. His father was Ly- man Ellis Davie, and his mother was Puella L. Davie. He married Martha Hays at Pueblo, Colorado, October 15, 1890. As a result of this marriage there were six children, Sydney R. (deceased), Marjorie Puella, Rachel Leah (deceased), Lois Elizabeth, Martha Fran- ces, and Robert Parsell Davie, Jr. ]\Ir. Davie obtained his education in the pub- lic schools of Flushing, Michigan, and in a dis- trict school near his father's farm. He taught himself pharmacy. He moved west to Colorado in 1888, when Cripple Creek was a Mec- ca for mining men. He followed several lines with more or less success, and in 1890 became own- er of a drug store in that city, continuing until 1895, when he moved to Colorado Springs, Colo- rado. At that time he had become interested in the real estate business in Colorado Springs. In association with J. R. McKinnie, now a successful realty opera- tor in Los Angeles, California, he organized the McKinnie-Davie Realty Company. At the same time Mr. Davie became interested in mining enterprises in Cripple Creek, and he and Mr. McKinnie were influential in financing several enterprises in that district. Later Mr. Davie formed a number of cor- porations that are today flourishing in the Colorado country. Napoleon B. Broward, Governor of Flor- ida at the time, conceived the idea of drain- ing the great Everglade country of that state and hundreds of thousands of acres of sub- merged lands. Mr. Davie at that time be- came interested in Florida property. He as- sisted Governor Broward with the problem, and as a result the state is now reclaiming several million acres. R. P. DAVIE In 1901 he with J\lr. J. R. McKinnie or- ganized the Western Sugar and Land Com- pany at Grand Junction, Colorado, for the purpose of taking over the defunct beet sugar factory there. The task was a tremendous one, for the farmers of that region were op- posed to it by reason of previous failures, but Mr. Davie with Mr. McKinnie staid with the proposition and in three years had developed one of the greatest indus- tries in the country. A similar achievement was the construction of the United States Sugar & Land Company fac- tory at Garden City, Kansas, which marked the beginning of the beet industry in that section. In 1908 he took hold of the Southwestern Su- gar and Land Company factory at Glendale, Ari- zona, which had been a complete failure in the hands of a company of English capitalists, re- modeled the factory, and persuaded the farmers in that region to take up the sugar beet industry, and in three years has turned that region into a sugar producing section. To- day it is recognized as one of the largest indus- tries in Arizona. Mr. Davie moved to Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, late in 1909, and has since been per- manently located in that city. He retains large interest, both mining and realty, in Colorado, Florida and Arizona, but is now interested in several California enterprises. He is Vice President of the Western Sugar and Land Company, President of the South- western Sugar and Land Company, Vice President of the Everglades Sugar and Land Company, Director in the Colorado Title and Trust Company of Colorado Springs, and a Director of the Valley Bank of Phoenix, Ari- zona. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles, the Annandale Country Club of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Country Club, The Denver Club of Denver, Colorado, El Paso Club of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Pikes Peak Club of Colorado Springs, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. 40 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY UCK, FRANK HENRY, Fruit Grower, Oil Man and Capital- ist, San Francisco, California, was born in Cortland County, New York, June 8, 1859, the son of Leonard William Buck and Anna Maria (Bellows) Buck. He comes from clean, wholesome stock, English on the pa- ternal side and Irish on the maternal, a com- bination that is well ex- pressed in his most char- acteristic traits. On April 29, 1886, ]\lr. Buck was married, at Va- caville, to Miss Anna Elizabeth Stevenson and still retains his residence there. Of this marriage the children are Frank H., Jr., and Leonard William Buck. Mr. Buck's education, in the schoolroom sense of the term, was limited to the public school of Clinton, Iowa, and to the high school of the same place, from which latter he was graduated in 1873, when he was but 14 years of age. Two years later, in 1875, his father took him to California, where with him he entered the fruit - growing business, specializing in deciduous fruits. In this congenial pursuit he may be said to have grown up, gradually increasing his holdings and building up a reputation that has redounded alike to the credit of Vacaville, Solano County and the whole State, to say nothing of himself. To all who are familiar with the industrial development of California the name of Frank H. Buck should evoke a vision of smiling fruit orchards and spouting oil wells. He has been so long identified with the former, and of late years so extensively associated with the latter, that he seems to have be- come an essential element of both. And his success in these prolific fields has mellowed him into the smiling, genial personality of today. He began to be interested in the oil busi- ness in 1898, and the following year yielded to the excitement that grew out of the dis- covery of the oil fields in Kern County. With characteristic energy, he soon took a leading FRANK H. BUCK part in the development of this new industry and was one of the organizers of the Associ- ated Oil Company. He was not only on the first board of directors of this corporation, but ever since its formation has remained on the board, and has always been a member of the executive committee, controlling the management. Among his directorships at the time of the consolidation were those in the Chicago Crude Oil Company, the Toltec and the Aztec, all operating in the Kern River district. Since then his directorates and inter- ests have expanded to in- clude the Associated Oil Company, the Amalgama- ted, the Associated Pipe Line, of which the South- ern Pacific Railroad Com- pany owns one-half; the Transportation Company, t he Bakersfield Iron Works, the Belridge Oil Company, of Los Angeles, the Sterling Oil and De- velopment Company, the West Coast Oil Company of Los Angeles, the Rodeo Land and Water Compa- ny of the same place, the California Fruit Distrib- uters of Sacramento, the Booth - Kelly Lumber Company of Eugene, Ore- gon, and the Frank H. Buck Fruit and Ship- ping Company of Vacaville. Of the last three he is also president, and of the latter two owns a large majority of the stock. Add to his formidable array his vice presi- dency of the State Board of Horticulture and his presidency for twelve years of the Board of Town Trustees of Vacaville (incorpo- rated) and we have a somewhat bewildering view of commercial activity. During the last few years, however, he has devoted much of his attention to his oil and lumber interests. Air. Buck's interest in life has not been confined even to the considerable world of business activities. He still keeps in touch with his clubs and associations, among which are the Bohemian, the Pacific-Union, the San Francisco Golf and Country Club, the Clare- mont Country Club of Oakland, the Sutter Club, the Odd Fellows and the Knights Templar. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 41 ^ RNOLD, RALPH, Consulting Geologist and Engineer, Los Angeles, California, was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, April 14, 1875. His father was Delos Arnold and his mother Hannah Rich- ardson Mercer. Mr. Arnold came to Califor- nia in 1880 and took up his residence in Pas- adena. He was married July 12, 1899, to Frankie Winninette Stokes of South Pasa- dena. Mr. Arnold received a thorough technical edu- cation in his profession. He graduated from the Pasadena Grammar and High School in 1894; from the Throop Poly- technic Institute in 1896. From Throop he went to Leland Stanford Junior University, where he re- ceived the degree of Bachelor or Arts in 1899, Master of Arts in 1900, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1902. At Leland Stanford Junior University he was Assistant in Mineralogy in 1898 and 1899, and also Physical Director at Hoitts School, Menlo Park, in 1899 and 1900. He was made Assistant in Geology at Stanford in 1900, which place he held as well as that of Field Assistant in the United States Geologi- cal Survey until 1903. From 1903 until 1905 he was Geologic Aid in the Geological Sur- vey, and from 1905 until 1908 he was Paleon- tologist. From 1908 until 1909 he was Geol- ogist with the United States Geological Sur- vey. Mr. Arnold resigned from the Govern- ment service June 1, 1909, to take up private practice as consulting geologist and engineer, specializing upon the California oil fields. Mr. Arnold has served as Director and Consulting Geologist and Engineer of the Montebello Oil Company and California Counties Oil Company ; as Consulting Geolo- gist and Engineer of the Vallecitos Develop- ment Company ; the Gato Ridge Oil Com- pany; the Oak Ridge Oil Company; the Al- liance Oil Company; the Esperanza Oil Com- pany; the Redlands Oil Company; the Mid- RALPH ARNOLD pany; the Coalinga-Kettleman Oil Company and the Torrey Canyon Oil Company. He is Director of the Pan-American Hardwoods Company, professional correspondent of Thompson and Hunter, No. 3 Lombard street, London. He is Consulting Petroleum Engineer to the United States Bureau of Mines and also holds a temporary scientific assignment with the United States Geologi- cal Survey. Mr. Arnold rendered professional ser- vices to many individual oil companies and syndi- cates, especially foreign. He is also of the firm of Arnold and Fisher, con- sulting geologist and en- gineers of Denver. Mr. Arnold is a Fel- low of the Geological So- ciety of America; of the Paleontological Society of America ; of the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society; of the National Geographic Society ; of the Washington, D. C, Academy of Sciences ; of the California Academy of Sciences ; of the Geo- logical Society of Wash- ington ; of the Biological Society of Washington ; of the Seismological So- ciety of America ; of the Cooper Ornithologi- cal Club and of the Le Conte Geological Club. Of the important contributions Mr. Ar- nold's pen has made to science are the follow- ing: "Memoir of the California Academy of Sciences on the Paleontology of San Pedro," a volume of 400 pages with 50 plates ; "Re- cent and Fossil Pectens of California," Pro- fessional Paper No. 47, U. S. Geological Sur- vey; "Fossils of the Coalinga District," Bul- letin No. 396, U. S. Geological Survey; Bul- letins Nos. 309, 317, 321, 322, 357, 398 and 406 of the U. S. Geological Survey descrip- tive of California oil fields and about thirty articles descriptive of geology, paleontology, oil and mineral resources of California, Ore- gon and Washington published in the pro- ceedings of the United States National Mu- seum, the Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Geology, the American Journal of Science way Union Oil Company ; the K. H. Oil Com- and other technical publications. 42 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY UTLER, SIDNEY ALLCUT, County Supervisor, Los An- geles, California, was born March 10, 1847, at Milwau- _ kee, Wisconsin, the son of T. D. Butler and Mary Jane (Allcut) Butler. He married Kitty Keller at La Crosse, Wis- consin, December 24, 1869, and to them were born two children, Sidney T. and Edward J. Butler. Mr. Butler's grandfather, the Rever- end David Butler, was an Episcopal minister in Troy, New York, during the latter days of George Washington's period and served in the pulpit dur- ing the early years of the nineteenth century. Mr. Butler's uncle, the Rever- end Clement M. Butler, was rector of Trinity Church, Washington, D. C, and served as chaplain of the United States Senate before and during the Civil War. Mr. Butler attended the common schools of his native city up to the middle of the Civil War, when he left his books, in 1863, and enlisted in a Wisconsin regiment. He was one of the youngest men under arms in the great -conflict, taking part in numerous engagements, and in 1865, was mustered out. At that time he returned to his studies and for eight months was en- rolled at Flint, Michigan. In the fall of 1866, he quit school finally, and went to work as Assistant Agent of the American Express Company at La Crosse, Wisconsin. At the end of two years he left that position to go with Cameron and Com- pany, engaged in railroad construction work. In a short time he was made superintendent of construction for the firm at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and served in that capacity for one year, when he resigned and went to Memphis, Tennessee. During the years 1869, '70 and '71, he was assistant agent of the Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Company, but left in the latter year and re- turned to La Crosse for another year of con- struction work. In 1873 he went to Florida as a member of the railroad contracting firm SIDNEY A. BUTLER of Rossiter and Company, but returned to La Crosse in a year. He then went into the banking business under J. C. Easton, owner of a chain of banks in the Northwest, and from 1874 to 1876 was in charge of the Eas- ton Bank at Wells. Minnesota. He rejoined the Cameron Company as agent at Chicago and for three years was again busy in railroad construction. He left the Cameron Company and went to work with A. A. Robinson, Chief Engineer for Santa Fe Railroad building. His most notable work, per- haps, was the building of the Santa Fe Railroad's branch through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas River, sometimes called The Royal Gorge. He as- sisted in building the Santa Fe road between Las Vegas and Lamy, N. M., then retired in 1879, and returned to Kansas City, Mo., where he be- came clerk of the Pacific Express Company; in six months he was general agent ; before the end of a year the Pacific and Uni- ted States Express Com- panies consolidated and he was made general agent for both companies. In 1886 he resigned and went to Los Angeles, as- sisting in building a railroad to Flagstaff, Arizona. In 1889, he was made agent of the Wells Fargo Company at Los Angeles, and held that until 1904, when he was transferred to San Francisco. In 1905, he was made assist- ant superintendent in the Northwest, and the next year put in charge of the San Francisco office, retiring in 1907. He then returned to Los Angeles and was the "father of the good roads movement" there. He organized the Los Angeles County Roads Association. He was one of the men who caused Port San Pedro, Cal., to be made a part of the city. He went abroad in 1909, and in Europe received so many communications asking him to run for Supervisor, that he did so and was elected on the Republican ticket in 1910. He is an ex-director of the L. A. Chamber of Com- merce and was first chairman of the Lincoln- Roosevelt Republican League. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 43 S YRNE, JOHN JOSEPH, Assistant Passenger Traffic Manager of the Santa Fe Railroad, Los Angeles, California, is a native of the ^ Dominion of Canada. He was psg ^^^JyUt born at Haimilton, Ontario, in 1859. His father was Andrew W. Byrne and his mother Mary (Flannigan) Byrne. In Chicago, Illinois, June 8, 1892, he married Mary Castle. There are three children, Constance, Beatrice and John Castle Byrne. He was educated in the schools of Hamilton, Canada, in which city he spent his early life. Mr. Byrne has been a railroad man all of his busi- ness lite, which began in 1873, with the Great Western Railway system in Canada. There he worked his way from the position of office boy in that company, with promotion after promotion following in rapid succes- sion, until today he holds an enviable place in the rail- road world. However, the history of his success has not been a jump from office boy to the top, but has been a series of many merited ad- vances, with years of per- sistent study and the devel- opment of a genius for his chosen work. From office boy in the auditor's office of the Great Western Railway he was advanced to clerk in the same office, December 19, 1877. On October 14, 1880, he became clerk in the General Passenger Agent's office of the Chicago and Alton Railway, with offices at Chicago. From that date until one year later he acted in the ca- pacity of rate clerk on the St. Louis, Iron Moun- tain and Southern Railway. His next advance was into the office of the Gen- eral Passenger Department of the Missouri Pacific Railway. From January 1, 1882, until March of the fol- lowing year he was employed in the same position with the Michigan Central Railway During the next two years he was made secre- tary of the Chicago Railroad Association, with of- fices in that city, and at the same time he acted as chief clerk in the General Passenger office of the Michigan Central system. On April 1, 1885, he went to Oregon, where he became the general passenger and ticket agent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. In August, 1887, he was made passenger agent for the Atlantic and Pacific Railway of San Fran- cisco, with headquarters situated in that city. He became a typical Western railroad man, display- ing that interest in the growth and upbuilding of the Far West which was so essential to the pros- perity of his interests. He devoted his princi- pal efforts to colonization work, thereby creat- ing the phenomenal growth of railway sys- tems on the Pacific Coast. From December 1, 1887, until the following Septem- ber, he acted in the capacity of chief clerk of the Pas- senger Department of the Chicago, Santa Fe and Cali- fornia Railway, with its headquarters located at Chi- cago. He was next made as- sistant general passenger and ticket agent of the road, which office he retained un- til January 1, 1890, when on the consolidation of that system with the Santa Fe lines he went over to the parent organization and re- mained in various capacities up to January 31, 1895, when he took up the important du- ties of assistant passenger traffic manager of that rail- road. Meanwhile he was made general passenger agent for the Southern Cali- fornia Railway, a subsidiary interest, and on March 1, 1896, was appointed gen- eral passenger agent of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroads, another Santa Fe interest, both of which were later merged into the growing Santa Fe System. On July 1, 1899, he was made general passenger agent of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, another line that was ultimately consoli- dated with the Santa Fe system. On October, 1905, he became assistant passenger traffic manager of the Santa Fe Railroad. For twenty-seven years he has been in the rail- road profession, during which time he has worked with most of the leading Western and Canadian railroads. When he received a position he stayed with it until he had successfully mastered the du- ties of the office, and as a result he is today ac- knowledged to be one of the best equipped railroad men in the West. His work in behalf of Southern California has been one of the strong factors in the upbuilding of that country. He is a member of the California, Sunset, Celtic, Gamut and Los Angeles Country Clubs; belongs to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association. BYRNE 44 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OMEROY, ABRAM BHLE, Real Estate Operator and Investments, Los Angeles, California, although born in Athens, Michigan, Octo- ber 2, 1838, is a typical Califor- nian, having moved to that State in January, 1853. His father was Charles W. Pom- eroy and his mother Permelia (Valentine) Pom- eroy. On December 6, 1871, he married Florence A. Wilcox at San Jose, California, and they have one son, Walter V. Pomeroy. Mr. Pomeroy was edu- cated in the grammar schools of California, and after con- cluding his preparatory schooling entered the Uni- versity of the Pacific at San Jose, California, where he re- ceived the degrees A. B. and A. M., graduating in 1864. Shortly after leaving his Alma Mater he was appoint- ed Deputy County Clerk of Santa Clara County, which position he held with such credit that on the completion of his services as Deputy he was elected County Clerk. For eigbt years he held these two positions, and it is with pleasure that he looks at those early offices at a time when he was a young man just out of college. Mr. Pomeroy lived in those days in the central and northern portions of the State — San Jose, San Fran- cisco and Sacramento. His father was a significant force in the building of the little Sacramento and Shingle Springs Rail- road. Associated with him in this project of em- pire and railroad building was the noted engineer, Theodore P. Judah. The latter was a personal friend of the Crockers of San Francisco and played an important part as chief engineer in the construc- tion of the overland roads. Railroad building in the early days of California was far different from what it is today. The steel for the rails had to come across the Isthmus or around the Horn, and had to be driven inland by means of ox teams or equally slow transportation. The obstacles were in time overcome, and what Mr. Pomeroy and his associates originally started as the Sacramento and Shingle Springs line eventually was merged into the Central Pacific, the system which forced its mighty steam monsters across the mountains, bringing thousands of Western col- onists to populate the fertile California valleys and form cities. In 1881 Mr. Pomeroy severed his connection!. A. E. POMEROY with all interests in Northern California and in that year settled in Los Angeles. From that date up to the present writing he has been identified with the business, educational and political move- ments in Southern California to such an extent that he is recognized as one of the progressive and representative men of Souttem California. During his career in Los Angeles his adminis- trative traits were recognized by his appointment as Trustee of the State Normal School at Los An- geles, where he assisted in the advance of that institution to a remarkable degree during (his nine years of service. His work as Chairman of the Los Angeles City Board of Education, during three years, was productive of the most valuable results, his business faculties enabling him to meet and overcome the constantly arising em- barrassment of overcrowded school buildings. During his long residence in Los Angeles he has fol- lowed the real estate busi- ness and left his imprint on the geography of the coun- try. He has been a town site promoter of unusual activity. Mr. Pomeroy and assistants promoted the city of Long Beach and the following towns and subdivisions: The Rancho and town of Temec- ula, the Rancho and town of San Jacinto, the town of Al- hambra, of Gardena, of Her- mosa Beach, the Providencia Rancho, the town of Burbank, the Grant Tract, the Los Berros Tract in San Luis Obispo, and many tracts and subdi- visions in Glendale, Pomona and neighboring Southern California cities. All of these sections are now well populated and are among the most thriving in the southern part of California. Other organizations in which he is interested are the A. E. Pomeroy Company, real estate; mana- ger of the Grant building and vice president of the State Mutual Building and Loan Association. He has been a Trustee of the University of the Pa- cific and is now Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California. In these latter positions he has instituted many improvements and his Influence has been as strong as he exerted in connection with public education. He has attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry, is a charter member of the California Club and a member of the University, Union League and Federation Clubs, and a charter mem- ber of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 45 AUGHLIN, HOMER, Capi- talist, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born at 'Little Beav- er, Columbiana County, Ohio, March 23, 1843. His father was Mathew Laughlin and his mother Maria (Moore) Laughlin, the former of whom was born in Columbiana County in the year 1814, one of the pioneers of Columbiana County, Ohio, engaged for half a century in the milling business at Little Beaver. James Laughlin (the grandfather of Homer Laughlin) was of Scotch- Irish descent, but born in Maryland, passing the latter part of his life in Pennsylvania. On June 18, 1875, Ho- mer Laughlin married Cornelia Battenberg at Wellsville, Ohio. There were three children. Ho- mer, Jr., Nanita and Gwendolen V. Mr. Laughlin received his education, first in the common schools and la- ter Neville Institute. On July 12, 1862, Mr. Laughlin enlisted for Civil War service at East Liverpool, Ohio, in Com- pany A, 115th, Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, remain- ing in service till July 7, 1865, when he was mustered out, as Sergeant at Cleveland, Ohio. As a young man, Mr. Laughlin went to New York where he became associated with his brother, Shakespeare Moore Laughlin, in the wholesale importation of English earth- enware, the firm operating from October 1, 1871, to October, 1873, under the firm name of Laughlin Brothers. In September, 1873, this firm built a pottery for the manufacture of fine white earthenware at East Liverpool, Ohio, and continued until 1879, when Mr. Laughlin bought out his brother's interest and personally conducted the business as the Homer Laughlin China Company until 1897, when he removed to California to live a re- tired life. Under his personal management his pottery business grew to be much the largest and leading industry of the kind in the United States. The company while now under other ownership still retains the es- HOMER LAUGHLIN tablished name of The Homer Laughlin China Company. Immediately after taking up his residence here, Mr. Laughlin recognized the possibili- ties of the city and commenced the construc- tion of the Homer Laughlin Building, on Broadway, the first fire-proof office building in Southern California. This undertaking es- tablished a standard for fire-proof construc- tion much in advance of the times. About 1901, he built the building oc- cupied since its construc- tion by Jacoby Brothers, a few doors south of the Homer Laughlin Build- ing. It occupies the site of the old First Methodist Church. In 1905, he began the construction of the "An- nex" to the Homer Laughlin Building, it be- ing a typical re-enforced concrete structure, cover- ing a large area and ex- tending to Hill street. It has the distinction of be- ing the first re-enforced concrete building erected in Southern California. Mr. Laughlin was held in high esteem by the late President William Mc- Kinley, of whom he was an intimate friend for over thirty years. When President McKinley and his Cabinet visited Los Angeles, he was President of the Recep- tion Committee. Mr. Laughlin was for years President of the U. S. Potters' Association and from 1878 to 1898 chairman of the executive committee. He received medals from the Centennial Ex- position, Philadelphia, 1876; Cincinnati Ex- position, 1879; World's Columbian Exposi- tion, Chicago, 1893, for superior manufactory of pottery. He has been on the Board of Managers of the American Protective Tariff League since 1882; was a member of the First Crusaders party of Knights Templar to Europe, June 1. 1871 ; is honorary life member Girvan En- campment of Glasgow, Knights Templar of Scotland; member Allegheny Commandery No. 35, Knights Templar; member Republi- can Club of New York and California Club, Los Angeles. 46 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY HARMON BELL NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 47 ^^^ ELL, HARMON, Counselor at Law, San Francisco, California, was born in Oakland, that State, March 23, 1855, the son of the Reverend Dr. Samuel B. Bell and Sophie B. (Wadsworth) Bell. His father, a Presbyterian clergyman, was a pioneer in the Golden State, built the first Presbyterian church in Oakland and had the additional distinc- tion of introducing into the Legislature the first bill for the estaoiishment of the University of Cali- fornia. He had previously helped to. found the old California College and had seen the advantage of merging this institution into what he hoped would be, and what has proved to be, one of the greatest universities on the American continent. Mr. Bell's mother was the daughter of a pioneer. His paternal ancestors were New Yorkers, originally Scotch, and on the maternal side he is of Revolutionary stock, partly English and Holland Dutch. Mr. Bell mar- ried in San Francisco, January 16, 1880, Miss Kath- erlne Wilson, the daughter of two early Califor- nians, her father having been A. C. J. Wilson, a miner in the first part of the gold rush. They have two children living, Traylor W. and Joseph S. Bell. Mr. Bell's father being called to different charges while the son was in his youth, the latter's school- ing necessarily was divided, frequently interrupted and obtained in a number of different Institutions. His early training was provided by the Lyons Acad- emy, in Lyons, New York State, and he next at- tended the Hillsdale College of Michigan, where he remained only a short time. His final schoolroom work was done in the Washington College, a pri- vate school of Alameda, California, and then he de- termined to take up the study of the law. Mr. Bell's law studies began in the office of Dirlam & Lehman, in Mansfield, Ohio, whither his father had taken him in 1875. Moving thence to Kansas City the following year, he completed his legal studies in the office of Judge Turner A. Gin, and on May 1, 1878, was admitted to practice. For twenty years he devoted himself to his profession in Kansas City, taking a little political flyer in the Legislature from 1881 to 1882, where he was one of the few Republican Representatives of the State. His practice was of a general nature, chiefly civil, with only an occasional venture into the devi- ous lanes of criminal law, and though it was marked by a number of important cases it was not en- livened by any noteworthy relief from the monotony of ordinary legal routine. His first case at the bar, however, was illumined by an amusing incident that furnished significant evidence of young Bell's powers of observation. The case had not progressed far before he saw that the Presiding Judge had a decided admiration for the feminine propensity of getting in the last word. But the opposing counsel subsequently made the same discovery. Thence- forth the proceedings developed into a sort of men- tal catch-as-catch-can contest for the ultimate sylla- ble. Whether skill or endurance was responsible for the victory has not appeared; but at all events young Bell won the case. In 1898 Mr. Bell returned to California and opened a law office in San Francisco. There he developed a considerable corporation practice, his success in which had much to do with his sum- mons to Oakland in 1904 to become the attorney of the Oakland Traction Company. His labors in this connection have been little short of Herculean. Previous to his advent all the company's lines had been separate lines. These he consolidated into the present efficient system, which has been one of the chief factors In the marvelous growth of Oakland and its environs. He drew up all the papers for the establishment of the Key Route (com- pany, an allied corporation operating in opposition to the Southern Pacific ferry lines, and he has had charge of all the cases of these combined compa- nies, 1. e., the Oakland Traction, the Key Route and the Realty Syndicate of Oakland. The bond Issues and the damage suits alone have involved a task to which a less robust consti- tution than that of Mr. Bell would have succumbed. Recently he has relinquished the management of the latter to able assistants. Since his connection with the Traction Com- pany his practice has been confined entirely to their interests and he has acquired the deep knowledge of business methods that is now an essential part of a corporation lawyer's equipment. The necessity of keeping in touch with the decisions in corpora- tion cases, with the development of business, with the field for bond issues that will appeal to the in- vestment public requires a legal and commercial acumen that Mr. Bell has displayed to the complete satisfaction of his clients. He is a type of the big lawyer who believes in advising them in accord- ance with their best interests rather than for the purpose of making litigation to swell his own repu- tation and coffers. Despite the manifold demands of his practice, Mr. Bell avoids the narrowness of outlook that comes from confinement in even so wide a field as that of corporation law. He has collected a large library of general literature and finds relaxation in its stimulating atmosphere. Standard and the best modern fiction are his chief mental fresheners, his zest for which is spiritually enlivened by the con- genial tastes of his wife, in company with whom he is especially fond of reading. While not a clubman, Mr. Bell manages to spare a moment now and then to the several associations of which he is a member. Among the most promi- nent of these are the Athenian Club and the Clare- mont Golf and Country Club, both of Oakland, and the Transportation and Commonwealth Clubs of San Francisco. He is also a Mason, a Knight Templar, a Mystic Shriner, an Elk and a Native Son of the Golden West. 48 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ONTGOMBRY, ERNEST ALEX- M't ANDER, Capitalist and Mine Op- I erator, Los Angeles, California, is a native ot Toronto, Canada, where he was born on November 24, 1863; his father was Alexan- der Montgomery and his mother was Jane (Chap- man) Montgomery. His grandfather was a brother of General Richard Montgomery, who fell while fighting in the heroic battle of Quebec in 1775. His early education was obtained from the public schools of Toronto and later in those of Stuart, Iowa, where his family removed. His boyhood was spent on the family farm in Iowa, and in 1884 he decided to strike out for himself, and made his way to Idaho, where he en- gaged in mining with meagre success. He then removed to Washington, where he spent some time in prospect- ing, but finding the field un- promising, he went to Ne- vada in 1901, where he helped to organize and devel- op what is now known as the Montgomery District. It was in this region that he devel- oped the Johnnie Mine, which has become a property of note. His energy next directed him to Inyo County, Califor- nia, where he developed the "World Beater" and the "O. B. Joyful" properties. In 1903 he returned to Ne- vada and located in Tonopah and became identified with the Los Angeles, Daggett and Tonopah Rail- way Company, which commissioned him to report on the districts which would be tributary to the road, a work his intimate knowledge of the coun- try enabled him to perform in such a manner that he foresaw very closely the tonnage of freight that would accrue to a railway. The railway was be- gun, but was not completed by the original com- pany, it being taken over by the Las Vegas and Tonopah and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railways. In 1904 he outfitted and prospected the region surrounding Tonopah, an-d it was in September of that year that he first located the famous Mont- gomery-Shoshone Mine in the Bullfrog district. He developed this property, and sixteen months later sold it to Charles M. Schwab, combining in the sale the adjoining property, the Polaris, which he had also acquired. The Montgomery-Shoshone has produced something over $2,000,000. Though by this time Mr. Montgomery had ac- ■ E 3H ■ ^^^^1 ^HHHniiy^^HP '^ T^ -i ^ ^^^M ^^^IHI 1 iSm 1 ^1 %b ^^ W^ 1 Wi ^^^^^Sfk 1 1 ■ g 1 ERNEST A. MONTGOMERY quired a handsome fortune, he by no means re- laxed his activity, and in 1905 he obtained control of the Skidoo Mines, which he immediately began working on a scientific basis and a large scale. This investment represented at least a half million dollars. He was among the very first in the great camp of Goldfield,and in fact was one of the original twenty-eight owners of property in that district who, in the autumn of 1903, held a meeting at which the district was organized and the name which has since be- come famous as that of the greatest gold-producing camp in the entire world was se- lected, Goldfield. Naturally, a great portion of his life has been passed in the weird lonesomeness of the Nevada and California des- erts, and in that existence he had much to do with the In- dians, who make those re- gions the place of their Iso- lated existence. All of these aborigines consider Mr. Montgomery their friend, and such he has proved himself to be. He always treated them fairly and with consid- eration, and his fame as a decent, honorable man is known to every Indian of the desert country. Mr. Mont- gomery unhesitatingly de- clares that he owes much of his success on the desert to the friendship of the In- dians, who, because of their trust in him, over- came the prejudice and suspicion with which they always regarded white men and gave him all the assistance in their power in his prospecting work. Mr. Montgomery has been an active worker in behalf of Los Angeles and has done a great deal in establishing that city's reputation as a mining center of the West. He devoted endless time and much capital to bringing to that city and enter- taining the American Mining Congress of 1910. He is president of the Skidoo Mines Company, a director of the California Savings Bank and of the Mexican Premier Oil Company. He is president of the Sierra Madre Club, di- rector of the Chamber of Mines and Oil and of the American Mining Congress. His clubs are the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, the Rocky Mountain Club and the Chemical Club of New York and American Club of Mexico City. He has been established in Los Angeles since 1892. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 49 OOD, WILLIAM, Chief En- gineer of the Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, Cal- ifornia, was born at Concord, New Hampshire, Feb. 4, 1846, the son of Joseph Edward Hood and Maria (Savage) Hood, His ancestors, who were chiefly English, with a blend of Scotch, were among the early settlers of New Eng- land, his father's family choosing Massachusetts, and his mother's people Vermont, as their respec- tive places of residence. Joseph E. Hood, a grad- uate of Dartmouth, with the class of '41, was a well-known journalist in New England, and for sixteen years an editorial writer of the Springfield Republican. Coming of clean, wholesome, sturdy stock, on both sides of the house, William Hood has evidently inherited the essentially New Eng- land characteristics of en- ergy, ambition, and con- scientious devotion to the work in hand. From the time he was eight years old to the out- break of the Civil War he attended public schools in Boston and in Spring- field, Massachusetts. Not long after the beginning of hostilities he en- listed as a private soldier in Company A, 46th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and not only carried, but also fired a musket, through the war, until shortly after the bat- tle of Gettysburg. He then returned home to complete his education. Though he had been prepared for the academic course his ambition to be an engineer prompted him to enter a scientific school. Choosing the B. S. Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth he studied there until 1867, and in May of the same year began his professional career in California, with a field engineering party, in the employ of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. Beginning as an axeman he rose in a few months to the post of assistant engineer of the Central Pacific, at that time building the road, with Chinese labor, between Cisco and Truckee. Ninety-one and a half miles had WILLIAM HOOD been completed to Cisco, and after the twen- ty-seven and seven-tenths miles were finished to Truckee the construction moved rapidly toward Salt Lake. In May, 1869, the Central Pacific rails met those of the Union Pacific on Promentory Mountain, Utah. Mr. Hood then returned to the Sacramento Valley and began work on the road which the Central Pacific was building from Marysville, Cali- fornia, to Ashland, Ore- gon. From that time up to the present, while con- structing many thousands of miles of road he has held these positions : 1875-83, Chief Assistant Engineer of the Central Pacific ; from June to Oc- tober 10, 1883, Chief As- sistant Engineer of the Southern Pacific; 1883- 85, Chief Engineer of the C. P. ; and is now Chief Engineer of the Southern Pacific Company. Among his especially noteworthy achievements, under Mr. Harriman's control, is the reconstruc- tion of the Central Pacific between Reno, Nevada, and Ogden, Utah, includ- ing the Ogden and Lucin cut-off, across Great .Salt Lake. He is now busy on the double track be- tween Sacramento and Ogden and on the road now building from a point opposite Mt. Shasta, California, to Na- tron, Oregon, by way of Klamath Lake as well as on sundry other railroad construc- tion. Mr. Hood's reputation as a construc- tive engineer is too well known to require comment. His remarkable sense and mem- ory for detail, topography and other essen- tials of success have caused his associates to regard him as a "law unto himself." But though strictly an engineer, in all that term implies, he is not above riding a hobby or two. Chief among these is his recreation of tramping in the hills and making studies, with his camera, in black and white, and in color photography. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Association for Advancement of Science. His clubs are : Pacific-Union, Bo- hemian and Olympic of San Francisco, Cali- fornia and Jonathan of Los Angeles. 50 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ARD, THOMAS ROBERT, Capital- ist and ex-Senator of the United States, Hueneme, Ventura County, California, was born in Chambers- burg, Franklin County, Pennsyl- y vania, December 8, 1841. He is the son of Robert McFarland Bard and Elizabeth Smith (Little) Bard, and descended from a family that traces back to the Middle Ages, with the American branch rich in mighty deeds of patriotism and important factors in the Revolutionary and early colonial period of the nation's history. These latter were among the Scotch-Irish settlers of the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania, the first of the name being Archibald Bard. The latter's son, Richard Barfl, married Cather- ine Poe, who probably was a relative of the family of the immortal poet, Edgar Allen Poe, and these two figured in one of the most atrocious Indian out- rages in the history of the United States. Their homestead at Marshall's Mill (now Virginia Mills) was attacked and burned in 1758, and they with their infant child and three other persons who were in the house at the time, were captured by a party of savage Delawares. Three of the captives, includ- ing the infant, were murdered and Mr. and Mrs. Bard suffered indescribable tortures. He finally escaped and more than two years later, by paying a ransom, succeeded in obtaining his wife's release from captivity. An interesting incident in this connection is that in 1903, a century and a halt later, a great-great- grandson of White Eyes, the Delaware chief, who had been one of the captors of Richard Bard, in a second experience with the savages, appeared in Washington to press an Indian land claim and en- listed the friendly aid of Senator Bard, great-great- grandson of the man who had suffered at the hands of the redmen. Richard Bard later became a Justice of the Peace, and while he was in politics for a number of years, his only other public office was as a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Convention, which, in 1788, passed on the Federal Convention Constitu- tion. Richard Bard's brother, David Bard, was a Member of Congress for the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sessions. Other notable ancestors of Senator Bard were Thomas, a son of Richard Bard, who was a militia captain, conspicuous in military affairs in Penn- sylvania after the Revolutionary War; Judge Archi- bald Bard, for twenty-one years on the Bench, and a prominent figure in politics in the early part of the last century; Thomas Bard, great grandfather of the Senator, who, in 1814, organized a company and aided in the defense of Baltimore; Captain Robert Parker, a valiant officer under Washington, who participated in many of the most important battles of the Revolution and who was praised in after years by General Marquis Lafayette for his bravery and kindness to the Marquis when the lat- ter was wounded. Captain Parker, after the war, was appointed Collector of Excise for Franklin County and became one of the most prominent citizens in Pennsylvania. Senator Bard's father, although he died at the early age of forty-three, was a noted man in his day, and such was the appreciation of his unusual character and force that he might have achieved almost any position had he lived. He was a law- yer. Between 1842 and 1844 he was associated with the Hon. James X. McLanahan, one of the leading lawyers of that period. He soon attained a high position at the bar of his native county, and in his later years enjoyed a wide reputation in the State as a lawyer of great ability. "Mr. Bard was a peculiarly gifted man intellectually," wrote one of his contemporaries; "he had a profound knowl- edge of the law, was ardently devoted to his por- fesslon, managed every case entrusted to him with masterly skill and force, and would, had not death removed him in the meridian of his years, been one of the country's grandest jurists. He possessed an active, vigorous, and logical mind, and his legal learning was extensive and profound. His arguments to the court were cogent, and free from prolixity and redundancy. His addresses be- fore a jury were eloquent, convincing and directed toward presenting the strong points of his case clearly and strenuously. He judiciously refrained from dwelling at length on matters of minor Im- portance. When he gave a legal opinion to a client on a difficult point of law, he was able to give it confidently, because it was the result of the most painstaking investigation and study. In politics. Senator Bard's father was a Whig, but he was never an aspirant for political office. In 1839, when he was only thirty years old, and the public school system was in its infancy, he was elected a member of the Chambersburg School Board, and he was chosen Chief Burgess of the borough in 1847. In 1850 he was nominated for Congress by the Whigs. He was a man of strong convictions, with the courage to avow them. He was con- spicuous as an influential and consistent advocate of temperance at a time when opposition to the Rum Power and Slave Power were alike regarded as a species of fanaticism." Senator Bard married Mary Beatrice Gerberd- ing, at San Francisco, California, April 17, 1876, and to them there were born eight children, Rob- ert (deceased). Beryl Beatrice, Mary Louise (now Mrs. R. G. Edwards), Anna Greenwell, Thomas Ger- berding, Elizabeth Parker, Richard and Archibald Philip Bard. Left fatherless at the age of ten, the future Senator Bard early developed a self-reliant charac- ter in keeping with the traits of his forbears. He attended the Chambersburg Academy, and at the age of seventeen years began the study of law in the office of Hon. George Chambers, at Chambers^ bu"g. Impaired health, however, compelled him to NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 51 HON. THOS. R. BARD 52 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY abandon his preparation for the bar and seek a more active business life. He became a member of the forwarding and commission house of Zeller & Company, in 1861, at Hagerstown, Maryland, and also served the Cumberland Valley Railroad at that place until August, 1864. Speaking of this part of the Senator's career and events subsequent, G. O. Seilhamer, Esq., in an historical and genealogical work, entitled "The Bard Family: A Chronicle of the Bards," says: "During this period he saw some dangerous ser- vice as a volunteer scout in the successive inva- sions of Maryland and Pennsylvania by the Con- federates. One day, with a companion, he pene- trated the lines of the enemy and was captured. They were on the point of being hanged as spies, when a sudden rush of Union cavalry rescued them from their distressing situation. In the autumn of 1864, Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War, and afterwards president of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, was in search of a capable young man to take charge of his extensive interests in Southern Cali- fornia, which included oil lands that it was be- lieved would rival the oil regions of Pennsylvania. "Mr. Bard was chosen for the work, and after spending several months in Colonel Scott's office, was placed in control of his holdings in Los An- geles, Ventura and Humboldt Counties, comprising about 227,000 acres. These holdings included 113,000 acres in Rancho Simi; 26,600, Las Posas; 48,000, San Francisco; 10,000, Callegnas; 45,000, El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia; 6600 in the Canada Clara, and 16,000 in the Ojai. "At that time there were not more than a dozen Americans in the entire region. It was not long, however, until squatters began to swarm over a part of Scott's land. In the description of the old Rancho la Colonia one line ran from a certain monument to a point on the Santa Barbara chan- nel shore between two esteros. Lagoons were nu- merous along that shore, and it was easy for a de- signing and unscrupulous person to raise a doubt in regard to the two esteros between which the rancho line ran. A Sacramento lawyer asserted that the line ran to a point near where the Hue- neme lighthouse now stands. This was in direct conflict with Scott's claim, and would have de- prived him of about 17,000 acres of as rich, level land as was to be found along the coast. "The lawyers sat on the squatters, who at once began to drop down on the 17,000 acres. Scott in- sisted on his claim and Bard was on the ground to defend his rights and to drive the squatters off. The settlers talked 'shoot' and 'hang,' but Bard kept after them. At the outset he had a survey made by the United States Surveyor General, and, as the line fitted the Scott claim, he was unyield- ing in enforcing it. "The conflict lasted for years with varying for- tunes. The settlers stole a march on Scott by ob- taining a decision in their favor from the Land Office at Washington, but Scott succeeded in hav- ing it reversed, and it has remained reversed to this day. When Grover Cleveland became Presi- dent the squatters made their last attempt to get the Colonia lands, but Attorney General Garland upheld the old Scott line and that was the end of it. "During all these years Bard was on the firing line. He had desperate men to deal with, but he never flinched. He kept the courts of the county busy dealing with the cases of the squatters. After he had won he dealt so generously with the men who had been his bitter enemies that they became his friends. "While Mr. Bard was Colonel Scott's agent he had some thrilling experiences. The California Petroleum Company was organized to develop the oil on Scott's holdings. Well No. 1 was put down on the Ojai Country, and there Bard made his home when he first went to Southern California. One night in 1874, he was the victim of an attempted "hold-up" while driving to No. 1 on the Ojai with a large sum of money in his possession. He had forgotten his pistol, but the landlord at the hotel where he received the money loaned him an old derringer with which to defend himself in case of attack. He was driving four-in-hand. It was not an easy thing to hold up four bronchos on the run, but on an up-grade a man got in front of the lead- ers, while another came to the forward wheels de- manding Bard's money. Bard blazed away with the ancient derringer, missing his man, but hurt- ing himself with the old weapon, the handle of which burst in his hand. Frightened by the ex- plosion the leaders dashed forward and Bard was out of reach of the highwaymen. "Desperadoes among the squatters on the Scott lands and other bad men plotted to take Mr. Bard's life on a number of occasions, but these plots al- ways failed. These antagonisms have passed away, and now he is held in the highest esteem by all classes in Southern California for what he has achieved for the development of his section of the State." In the days when Senator Bard started for Cali- fornia the transportation problem was little better than during the rush of '49, and he made the trip by steamer, then via the Isthmus of Panama over- land. Ventura County, in which he makes his home, and wherein his activities have lain princi- pally since his arrival, was a part of Santa Bar- bara. His important responsibility as master of the Scott holdings at once made him the leading business man of the section, but despite the cares of that office and the attendant difficulties and liti- gation, he early took an active part in politics. Reaching Ventura in 1865, he was elected two years later to the Board of County Supervisors, and served until 1871. In 1872 he was one of the Com- missioners who organized Ventura County and started the government going. Five years later he NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 53 ran for State Senator on the Republican ticket in the district made up of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. He carried the first two, but was defeated by Patricli Murphy, of the last named county, by a slight margin. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conven- tion which nominated Blaine for President, and in 1892 he was elected a Presidential elector, the only Republican to win in a Democratic landslide. In this contest he received more votes than the three lowest of the Democratic candidates combined. The Democratic California Legislature becom- ing deadlocked, in 1899, over the Choice of a United States Senator, Mr. Bard was proposed by Dr. Howell for the office in January, 1899, as the man "who would be free from all corporation entangle- ment, and on whose character there could be no stain." He received two votes at that time, but in February, 1900, after the deadlock had existed for more than a year, he was elected at a special session of the Legislature over Colonel Daniel Burns, taking his seat untrammeled by promises to any man or body of men. Senator Bard served his State until March 4, 1905, and during his tenure in office was conspicu- ous in numerous important legislative campaigns. His most notable works, however, were his effort in behalf of the amendment of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty; his opposition to Cuban reciprocity and the defeat of the Statehood bill intended to join Ari- zona and New Mexico as one State. He stood at all times for the autonomy of Arizona and the sub- sequent admission of the two territories as sep- arate States has vindicated his position. He made several powerful speeches on Cuban reciprocity and the Statehood question, and was in the thick of the battle over both questions. He also contributed to the defeat of the effort to grant public funds to Catholic and other sectarian Indian schools. This latter, it is believed, contributed more than any other one thing to his defeat for re-election. His candidacy for re-election, however, was proposed by political friends and others, irrespec- tive of politics, and not by himself. During that contest he said: "My attitude is, in effect, a pro- test against the power of the machine in the State, and if that power is to be continued, free and in- dependent representation in Congress is an im- possibility." During his service in the Senate, Senator Bard was Chairman of the Committee on Irrigation, which had to do with enormous problems for the reclamation of the arid wastes of the West, and in this capacity performed remarkable work for the progress and upbuilding of his section. He was at one time a member of the Executive Committee of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, with the understanding that his membership was to cease after the campaign, as he was not in favor of many of the principles of the League, being especially opposed to the direct election of United States Senators by popular Vote and the initiative, referendum and recall. He was able, however, to assist the League in its campaign to "kick the Southern Pacific Railroad out of the Republican party in California." Senator Bard is a conservative Republican, but at the same time a believer in modern develop- ment of the country's resources. He does not be- lieve in saloons or too much legislation which would hamper the growth of the nation, and advo- cated the Anti-Saloon League of California, though his views differ from those of the Prohibition party in that he prefers the local option solution. Senator Bard has been one of the most success- ful business men in America, and has extensive landed interests In Ventura and other counties. His activities extend through various lines of enter- prise, including oil, banking, development, coloni- zation, sugar and manufactures. He is President of the following corporations: Berylwood Invest- ment Company, Bank of Hueneme, Quimichis Col- ony, Compania Hacienda de Quimichis, Las Posas Water Company, and is a director in the Graham and Loftus Oil Company, Sacramento Valley Sugar Company, and the Potter Hotel Company. He was also the first President of the Union Oil Company of California, in 1890; built at Hueneme, in 1871, the first wharf constructed in any open roadstead south of Santa Cruz, and in 1874 con- tracted for the building of the first wharf erected at Santa Monica, California. Senator Bard served, by appointment of Gover- nor Gillett, as Regent of the University of Califor- nia, and has been a conspicuous figure in educa- tional advancement in the Golden State. He is a noted floriculturist, and at his home in Hueneme, called "Berylwood," after his eldest daughter, he indulges his taste for gardening. He developed two new roses, one called "Beauty of Berylwood" and the other "Dr. Bard," after his brother. Dr. Cephas Little Bard, a man who in life presented one of the noblest characters his fellows ever came in contact with. He had served as a surgeon in the Civil War, and later settled at Buenaventura, California, where, for many years, he was a real ministering angel to his people. He cared for the sick of the district regardless of their position, and oftentimes, at risk of his own life in swollen stream or on dan- gerous mountain trail, he went forth in the night to care for his suffering neighbors. The two brothers, several years ago, built and endowed the beautiful Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital, erected in memory of their mother at Buenaventura, and there, in 1902, the doctor, who was its first patient, died shortly after the comple- tion of the building. With his brother, Senator Bard founded the Pioneer Society of Ventura County, and is today its President. He is also a prominent member of the P. and A. M., Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, Union League of San Francisco, and the California Club of Los Angeles. The home life of Senator Bard, with his family around him and his beautiful home for a setting, is described as ideal. He is a man of fine presence, large frame, magnetic personality and innate hon- esty that prevented him from spending, as the price of a political honor, even a cigar. 54 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY LAYTON, NEPHI W., Man- Oager Inland Crystal Salt Com- pany, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born in that city October 8, 1855. He is the son of William Clayton and Augusta (Braddock) Clayton. He married Sybella White John- son at Salt Lake, June 26, 1884, and of their union there have been five children — Sybella W., Charles C, Law- rence, Irving and Robert W. Clayton. Mr. Clayton had a very limited opportunity for education and was forced to leave the grade school of Salt Lake, which he had attended, when he was 12 years old and go to work. He has been steadily engaged in business since that time, and as a result of earnest endeavor and in- born ability has attained an eminent position in the business life of his State. His first employment was in a salt mill, where he received wages of 50 cents a day. He worked there for several years, but at the same time he was fitting himself for better things in life and spent his nights studying. By his own efforts he was able to teach himself many things he had missed by leaving school, and when he was 17 years of age he obtained a position as office boy in the office of the Ter- ritorial Auditor of Utah. He remained in that office in various ca- pacities until he was 21 years of age, and at that time was elected to the position of Ter- ritorial Librarian and Recorder of Marks and Bonds. He retained that for a number of years and then was elected Territorial Audi- tor of Accounts, taking charge of the depart- ment where he had gone, a few years before, as office boy. He served as Territorial Auditor until 1890, when he resigned to engage in the salt refining business, a field in which he has won a foremost position. Among his earlier N. W. CLAYTON works after leaving the employ of the Terri- tory was the building of the famous Saltair Pavilion in Utah, which was followed by his assisting in the incorporation and building of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad, con- necting Salt Lake with the pavilion. These were among the most important improve- ments made in Utah up to that time. In addition to these two enterprises and the Crystal Salt Company, Mr. Clayton is interested in various others. Among them are the Clayton In- vestment Company, of which he is president and general manager; the Utah Sulphur Com- pany, the Consolidated Music Company, Delray Salt Company of Detroit and the Clayton Land and Cattle Company. Of all these corporations Mr. Cla^'ton is president and a heavy stockholder. He has numerous minor in- terests scattered through- out the United States. He gives his personal at- tention to the more im- portant ones and is the principal influence in their successful operation. Mr. Clayton is also a director and stock- holder in the Utah National Bank and holds directorships in numerous smaller corpora- tions. He has been active in the affairs of L^tah for the greater portion of his life and has been most prominent among the men who de- veloped the resources of that State, bringing it up to a position among the leading com- monwealths of the Union. In 1894, in recognition of his services to the State, he was chosen by Governor Caleb W. ^^'ebb to be his aide-de-camp, and when L^tah was admitted to Statehood was made Commissary General, with the rank of Colo- nel, on the Governor's stafif. He continued in that office until 1904. He is a member of the Alta, Country and Commercial Clubs of Salt Lake City and is one of the most popular men in the city. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHIVEST 55 ARLAND, WILLIAM MAY, Real Estate Dealer, Los Angeles, California, was born at Westport, Maine, March 31, 1866. His father was Jonathan May Garland and his mother Rebecca Heal (Jewett) Garland. From his parents, who were of sturdy New England stock, he inherited that spirit of thrift and aggressiveness which has made him such a promi- nent figure in the making of "The City Beautiful" of today. At Dunkirk, New York, October 12, 1898, he married Blanche Hin- man, and to them two sons have been born, William Marshall and John Jewett Garland. Mr. Garland was edu- cated in the public schools of Waterville, Maine. After his graduation from high school he went to Boston and en- tered the employ of a wholesale and retail crockery house. After a year spent at this occu- pation he decided to quit merchandising, and as his father owned an orange grove and operated a stage line at Daytona, Florida, he went there and was employed by his father until 1884. The call of the West had attracted his atten- tion, and he located in Chicago, where he se- cured employment in the Merchants' Nation- al Bank as messenger. In less than six years he was appointed receiving teller in the Il- linois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago. Notwithstanding this rapid rise in banking, by reason of physicians' advice Mr. Garland determined to go further west, and settled upon Los Angeles, arriving in that city in the winter of 1890. He obtained there the position of auditor of the old Pacific Cable Railway Company, which supplied the trans- portation service to the city a score of years ago. Mr. Garland was not long to discover the great possibilities of real estate operations, and at the end of three years' service with the transportation lines he embarked in the WILLIAM MAY GARLAND real estate business. He has always been optimistic about Los Angeles as a home city, and has made some notable prophecies as to the wonderful growth in area and population. His latest prediction is that by the last of 1920 Los Angeles will have a population of 1,000,000. The first important realty deal put through by Mr. Garland was the subdivision of the Wil- shire Boulevard Tract, which was put on the market in 1896. At that time the whole section was unimproved and somewhat remote. To- day it is noted as having some of the finest resi- dences in the city, and is easily one of the famous show spots of the city. Mr. Garland's closer in- terest, however, has been given to business prop- erty, and he has been especially successful in keeping well in advance of the trend of business improvement. Mr. Garland was one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Realty Board, and is now its president. He is officer and director in sev- eral prominent corporations of the city, and in addition is a director of the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank. He served two years on the Los Angeles Board of Library Directors and a similar term on the Board of Education. He is a staunch Republican and was a delegate to the National Convention which met at Philadelphia in 1900, when Mc- Kinley and Roosevelt were nominated. He was also the member from California of the notification committee which visited Canton, Ohio, to notify Major McKinley of his elec- tion to the Presidency. Mr. Garland was Lieutenant Colonel and Aide-de-Camp on the staiT of ex-Governor Gillett, and is a member of the Los Angeles, Pasadena and Annandale Country clubs, and of the Los Angeles Athletic, Jonathan and Bolsa Chica Gun clubs and California Club, of which he was president during 1908. 56 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY JOSEPH D. GRANT NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 57 ^ RANT, JOSEPH DONO- HOE, President of the Mur- phy-Grant Co., San Fran- cisco, California, was born in that city, March 28, 1858, the son of Adam Grant and Emma F. (Gum- mer) Grant. Of Scotch-English ancestry, he has carried through life the qualities of shrewdness, integrity and affability presumed to inhere in that happy combination. His father, Adam Grant, was a true Highland Scotchman, who went to California in 1850, and in San Francisco founded the pioneer and long famous dry goods house of Murphy, Grant & Co., which his son, Joseph, has suc- cessfully controlled since 1904. The latter was married in Portland, Ore., June 28, 1897, to Miss Edith Macleay, daughter of Donald Macleay, one of Portland's oldest and most noted bankers and merchants. Josephine and Edith Grant are the children of this mar- riage, and Douglas Grant is a son by Mr. Grant's first wife. Joseph D. Grant's early education was re- ceived in the Lincoln Grammar, 1866-67; the next three years at the old Washington School, of which Miss Jene Parker was prin- cipal, and from 1870-75 at the Boys' High School. In the latter year he entered the College of Social Science of the University of California, but left one year before grad- uation ; a year later he toured the greater part of Europe and the East, and for five months attended the Sorbonne lectures on Political Economy and Literature. In 1881 he returned to San Francisco and entered the firm of Murphy, Grant & Co. He began at the bottom and progressed through all the various departments. Throughout the greater part of this pe- riod, however, many outside activities, such as his large ranches in California and inter- ests in Oregon claimed his attention, but did not swerve him from his main purpose, the mastery of the details aforesaid. He re- garded as a precious legacy, with all the re- sponsibilities the term implies, his succes- sion to the ownership of the oldest commer- cial house in its own line on the Pacific Coast. In 1904 Mr. Grant became the owner of the business and President of the corpora- tion. Since then the expansion of the trade has been due as much to the efificiency of the management as to the natural growth of the commerce. In the first quarter of the year 1906, preceding the great fire, the sales ex- ceeded those of any previous similar period in the history of the house, and this disaster called for the maximum of managerial and executive ability. As in the case of every business alike afiflicted, entire rehabilitation was a necessity. All sources of supply were cut off, and new stock and new quarters had to be procured. This practical re-creation was begun within seven days after the fire. On April 25, 1906, or just one week after the destruction of the business section of San Francisco, the house reopened with a stock of goods in the Tribune Building, Oakland, and on April 18, 1907, the anniversary of the fire, the firm moved into a substantial con- crete building on the corner of Sansome and Market streets. But as soon as the necessary supplies and materials could be secured the Class "A" Adam Grant Building, on the cor- ner of Sansome and Bush streets, was erected on lines that will permit its enlarge- ment to double its present size. This is a model of modern construction for the dis- patch of business and for the convenience of customers ; and therein, on July 25, 1908, or a little more than two years after the earth- quake, the company was completely installed ready for business that now covers this ex- tensive territory : California, Nevada, Ore- gon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Lower Cal- ifornia, Arizona, New Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti and Manila. The principal directors of the firm are now Joseph D. Grant, President, and Charles R. Havens, Vice President and Manager. Besides his presidency of the Murphy- Grant Co., and of the North Central Improve- ment Association, he is a director of the First National Bank of San Jose, Mercantile Trust Co. of San Francisco, Mercantile National Bank, Security Savings Bank, Donohoe-Kel- ley Banking Co., Natoma Consolidated Co., Coast Counties Light and Power Co., and the Charities Indorsement Committee. He is a life trustee of Stanford Univer- sity, as well as of the Academy of Sciences, a member of the Council of the Academy of Pacific Coast History, the American Astro- nomical Society and the Seismological So- ciety, and for two years was President of the S. F. Art Association. His club memberships include the Union, and the Rocky Mountain, of New York; the Pacific-Union, Bohemian, Olympic, Press, of which two last he is a life- member; Golf and Country, and the Com- monwealth, all of San Francisco ; Menlo Country and Burlingame Country, of San Mateo, of the latter of which he is also a life member, and the Chi Phi Fraternity of the Universitv of California. 58 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ERCKHOFF, WILLIAM GEORGE, capitalist and banker, President Pacific Light and Power Corpora- tion, Los Angeles, California, was born March 30, 1856, at Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of George Kerckhofif and Philippine (Newhart) Kerckhoflf. He mar- ried Louise Eshman at Terre Haute, Novem- ber 13, 1883. They have two daughters, Gertrude and Marion Kerckhoff. Mr. Kerckhofif received his primary education in the public schools of his native city and at the Gymnasium Lingen, Province Hanover, Ger- many. After leaving school, he entered the business of his father in Terre Haute, where he con- tinued until his removal to California in the fall of 1878. This gave him a thorough knowledge of the wholesale saddler and jobbing saddlery hard- ware business. After ar- riving in California he traveled throughout the State and following a thorough investiga- tion he decided that Los Angeles, although then only a city of 10,000 people, gave the greatest promise of success. The spring following his location at Los Angeles, with two associates,he organized the firm of Jackson, KerckhofT & Kuzner, lumber dealers, the firm later changing to the Kerck- hoiif-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company, wherein began one of the great industrial enterprises that have done so much to de- velop the resources of Southern California. Mr. Kerckhofif with associates established a chain of yards and docks along the south- ern coast of California and wharves at San Pedro (Los Angeles Harbor.) Their timber lands are situated in several Western States, with large mills on the Umpqua River, in Oregon. They own a line of lumber vessels which ply between Pacific Coast ports. The Company, with Mr. Kerckhofif as president, has become one of the gigantic enterprises of the West and the members of it are among the leading lumbermen of the country. WILLIAM G. KERCKHOFF In 1898, Mr. Kerckhofif sought another outlet for his energies, and with A. C. Balch, organized the San Gabriel Electric Company, which was the pioneer in Southern California water power development for electrical pur- poses. Through this company, which util- ized the water power of the San Gabriel river to generate electricity, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and twelve other cities were furnished with electric lighting and power. This original company was the basis of one of the great- est light and power sys- tems in the world and the work of Mr. Kerck- hofif was a factor domi- nant in its success. In time it was merged into the Pacific Light and Power Corporation, which now distributes light and power to all parts of Southern Cali- fornia. The success of the two pioneer companies was such that Mr. Kerckhofif and his associates subse- quently organized the San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, and this company now dis- tributes throughout the San Joaquin Valley from Merced to Bakersfield, with its plant and head- quarters located at Fresno. In addition the company owns and operates the electric rail- way and water plants at Fresno. In recognition of his ability, Mr. Kerck- hofif was selected by Governor Budd of Cali- fornia as Commissioner to manage the Yo- semite Valley, one of the world's greatest scenic spots. His work in this capacity was so successful that he was reappointed for a second term by Governor Gage. Mr. Kerckhofif has numerous active inter- ests. He is President of the Fresno Irri- gated Farms Co. and of the First National Bank of Kerman, Cal., and is a director in the Farmers and Merchants' National Bank, the Southern Trust Co., both of Los Angeles, and the S. P., L. A. & S. L. Railroad. His clubs are : Bohemian and Pacific Union of San Francisco: Jonathan, Los An- geles Country and California, of Los An- geles, and Bolsa Chica Gun Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 59 LICKE, ALBERT C, Cap- italist, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Coos Coun- ty, Oregon, June 22, 186L His father was Carl Gustavus Bilicke and his mother was Caroline Sigis- mund Bilicke. At Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1900, he married Gladys Huff, and of this union three children have been born. They are Albert Constant, Nancy Caroline and Carl Archibald. Mr. Bilicke came to California in 1868, set- tling in San Francisco, and attended the public schools of that city until 1876, when he entered Heald's Business College of the same city. At the age of 17 (1878) Mr. Bil- icke went to Arizona, where he engaged in the hotel business, being made manager of the Cosmopolitan Hotel at Florence, and after two years went to Tomb- stone, Arizona, where he managed the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel of that town and also became interest- ed in mining as superin- tendent of the Pedro Consolidated Mining Company. Returning to California in 1885, Mr. Bilicke became proprietor of the Ross House, Modesto, and in 1891 became the proprietor of the Pacific Ocean House, Santa Cruz, Cal- ifornia, a famous high-class resort in that day. In 1893 Mr. Bilicke first came to Los An- geles, and shortly after his arrival became the proprietor of one of the most famous ho- tels of the West of that and the present day, the Hollenbeck Hotel, of which he is still the president and moving spirit. Although Mr. Bilicke's interests have grown to great magnitude and are spread far and wide, among which is the magnificent Hotel Alexandria of Los Angeles, he still has a feeling of aiifectionate regard and pride in the "Hollenbeck" that no other interest, no matter the magnitude, can lessen. In 1903 Mr. Bilicke turned his attention to building and organized the Bilicke-Rowan Fireproof Building Company, principally for A. C. BILICKE the purpose of improving in the most modern Pasadena. and substantial manner some of the many central business sites which he and his asso- ciates had acquired. Notable among the structures erected by this company stands the palatial Hotel Alexandria, erected in 1905, of which he is president and which has added much to the fame and luxurious hotel life of Los Angeles. The success of this under- taking is best told by the fact that the com- pany has just completed an addition or annex con- taining over 300 rooms. He is president of the Bilicke-Rowan Annex Company, the Century Building Company, or- ganized in 1906, and of the Central Fireproof Building Company, or- ganized in the same year. He is also the presiding head of the Chester Fire- proof Building Company, which at this time is erecting the Title Insur- ance Building, a modern office building at Fifth and Spring streets and of which it is proposed to make one of the finest of- fice buildings west of Chicago. When the business district of Los Angeles started south along Broadway and Spring streets, Mr. Bilicke dis- played his confidence in the future of the city by stepping far ahead and buying choice cor- ners on which he could today take a hand- some profit; but he is not a speculator, he is an investor, with unbounded confidence in Los Angeles, and is backing his judgment with enormous investments in modern im- provements on the properties which he con- trols. His investments are almost entirely of a character that benefit the community at large and add beauty to the city. While Mr. Bilicke's charities are general- ly known to be large, he sees to it that the details are confined to the knowledge of him- self and the recipient. In addition to the high position Mr. Bil- icke occupies in business, financial and social circles, he is a member of the Jonathan Club, the Los Angeles Country Club, Annandale Golf Club and the Valley Hunt Club of 6o PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY IRD, ABRAHAM C, trans- portation service (retired), Compton, California, born in Pike County, Illinois, March 4, 1843. He is the son of the Rev. William H. Bird and Evelyn Bird. In 1868 he married Sarah E. Lippincott at Pana, Illinois. There are five surviving children of his marriage, three ol whom are married : Mrs. Alberta Bird Childs, Mrs. Martha B. Olmstead, Mrs. Evelyn B. Huston, Kathryn Bird and Wil- liam H. Bird. Mr. Bird attended the public school and acad- emy in Illinois. At the time President Lincoln issued his call for 75,000 volunteers in the spring of 1861, Mr. Bird, like many other young men of that period, left school and entered the army as a private. He enlisted in the Tvvrenty-second Illi- nois Infantry. With his regiment he served one year and a half and re- signed by permission in order to enlist for three years in Troop K, Fourth United States Cavalry. He was a soldier of the Union four years and eight months ; during that long period he fought in many of the deadly bat- tles of the Civil War, and remained in the service until after 'Lee had surrendered at Appomattox and the last gun had been fired. Mr. Bird was mustered out of the service November 28, 1865. He was one of the lucky ones to get early employment after re- turning from the war, and, being determined to succeed, he accepted the first employment that seemed to offer future success. He went to work as night watchman for the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad. He was soon promoted to the position of station clerk. Within a few years he was made general clerk in the freight department of the general ofifice in St. Louis. In the early seventies he resigned that position to become chief clerk of the freight department of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Rail- road Company. Within two years he was promoted to the general freight agency of that company. On December 31, 1882, he resigned to take a similar position on the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul Railroad, on which road he held several posi- tions, that of freight traflfic manager, general traffic manager and third vice president in charge of traffic. He remained with that com- pany continuously for for more than twenty-one } ears. His experience was invaluable to him in many ways, and when he retired in the spring of 1903 it was to accept a somewhat similar offer for the Gould system of roads, being vice presi- dent of each company and traffic director of all. Headquarters were in Chicago. Capability and knowledge of railroad traffic and general af- fairs placed him prominently among the men of the Gould system. His long years of constant work in the service of the Middle West railroad brought about a physical collapse, which induced him to withdraw from service in September, 1906. After a long term in the hospital in Denver, and later in a sanitarium at Lamanda Park, California, he retired to a little ranch which he had owned many years, at Compton, Cali- fornia. He takes as much interest in over- looking his affairs now as he took in former years in keeping the trains well filled, and with a great deal more comfort. Mr. Bird has always been an active lodge man. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the California Club in Los Angeles ; he is president of the Comp- ton Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Board of City Trustees. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 6i ASS, ALONZO B., President of the Home Telephone and Telegraph Company, Los An- geles, California, is a native of New York State. He was born July 4, 1856, at Albion. His father was P. C. Cass and his mother Amanda M. (Her- rick) Cass. He was married in Muskogee, Oklahoma, June 21, 1885, to Emily F. Tufts (deceased), to which union there were born eight children, Frank T. Cass, Phil, Louis, Donald, Quincy, Harold, Emily F. and Alonzo B. Cass, Jr. On August 23, 1909, he married Martha T. Muir, at Los Angeles, and adopted her three chil- dren, John, William and Robert. Mr. Cass attended the public schools of New York State, and finished his education at the Al- bion Academy, Albion, New York. He started in the business world at Ash Grove, Missouri, in 1879, in the general merchan- dise line as the firm of Green and Cass. From there Mr. Cass moved south to Oklahoma, where at Muskogee he continued in the general merchandise business between the years of 1880 and 1887. Two of his brothers, Frank H. and B. H. Cass, with Leo B. Newberry, were his associates, for one year in that city. He was also in the same business in Atoka, Oklahoma, in 1883-1884; at South Canadian in 1884-1886, and at McAllister, Oklahoma, from 1887 up to 1888. He was also a member of the firm of Govigan and Cass, druggists, at Muskogee. On arriving in Los Angeles, in 1888, Mr. Cass immediately went into business with his brothers as the firm of Cass Brothers Stove Company, which continued under that name until 1890. In that year the firm be- came known as the Crandall and Cass Com- pany, continuing to 1893. Between the years of 1893-1906, the Company was known as the Cass and Smurr Stove Company, when it came under its present name, Cass, Smurr, Damerel Company. ALONZO B. CASS During his years in business in Los An- geles, Mr. Cass established a substantial rep- utation for himself among the representative and progressive men of that city. His suc- cess in whatever field he pleased to enter won the hearty endorsement of able men. Mr. Cass was one of the original founders of the Central Bank, now the Central Na- tional Bank. His keen perception in the business world and his wide acquaintance among men of affairs were forces which worked for the upbuilding of the bank which today is one of the sound institutions of Los Angeles. In 1906, when the Home Telephone and Tel- egraph Company was forging to the front, Mr. Cass was elected Presi- dent of that corporation. Immediately he set about to make the Company a success. Four years later be- cause of his successful work with the Home Tel- ephone Company, in Los Angeles, Mr. Cass was made President of the Bay Cities Home Tele- phone Company of San Francisco. When the Home Tele- phone Company was first founded in 1898, Mr. Cass became its first subscriber for stock and has stood by the corporation ever since. He was shortly aft- er elected vice president of the company, and today occupies the position of chief ex- ecutive, directing the tremendous workings of the system. He still retains his interest with the Cass, Smurr, Damerel Company, and holds the vice presidency of that firm. He is a director of the Central National Bank, and holds many other important interests. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1901, was the first president of the Municipal ■League and a trustee of the State Normal School for four years. He is a member of the California, Jona- than, Sunset, and Union League Clubs of Los Angeles, is vice president of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of the Federation and City Clubs. 62 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY M. H. SHERMAN NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 63 HERMAN, MOSES H., railroad builder and banker, Los Angeles, Cal., was bom in West Rupert, Bennington County, Vt., Dec. 3, 1853, of sturdy New England stock which dates back far into the colonial days in America and originally came from England. He married in 1885, Harriet E. Pratt, daughter of R. H. Pratt, one of the distin- guished builders of the Central Pacific Railway. They have three children, Robert, Hazeltine and Lucy Sherman. He graduated from the Oswego (N. Y.) Normal School. Then, long before he was out of his teens, he taught district school in New York State, leaving before he was twenty to go to Los Angeles. He did not stay long in Los Angeles, but went into the sparsely settled territory of Arizona, to the then remote mining town of Prescott. There he continued his calling of teaching until 1876, when he first came to public notice. Although only twenty-three, he impressed Gover- nor A. F. K. Stafford of Arizona as the suitable man to represent Arizona at the Philadelphia Exposition or World's Pair in 1876, the first of the series of America's great world displays. His duties kept him at Philadelphia the one summer, after which he started on his return to the Pacific Coast. He took back with him his sister, now the wife of the Hon. B. P. Clark, of Los Angeles. They started the journey by way of the Isthmus of Panama, taking a Pacific Mail steamship at New York. While in the Windward passage, near the island of Cuba, the steamer was wrecked. For three days the disabled vessel was kept afloat, drifting helplessly about, when finally the passengers and crew were rescued by a steamer running from South America to Liver- pool. After various vicissitudes the two reached Los Angeles in safety. Upon the return of young Sherman to Arizona, Governor John C. Fremont of Arizona appointed him Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Territory. Arizona had at the time of his acces- sion to office practically no public school system, but he created and organized one so complete that even the most Isolated communities could enjoy the benefits of education, a remarkable situation in the West of those early days. When his appointive term was over the office became elective. He was nominated on the Republican ticket and was elect- ed by a large majority. Arizona was strongly Dem- ocratic at the time, and he had the added distinction of being the only Republican to be elected to office. During this term the Legislature asked him to re- write the school laws of Arizona. His draft was adopted unanimously without change, and remains the school law of Arizona to this day, after more than thirty years. Still less than thirty years of age, he was a con- spicuous public figure in Arizona at the expiration of his second term as school superintendent. He was then immediately appointed Adjutant General of the Territory by Governor F. A. Tritle. He found the National Guard situation as he had found that of the public schools. There was no organization and everything had to be done from the beginning. He was reappointed Adjutant General by Governor C. Meyer Zulic, and during this term of office he put the National Guard on a solid basis. While he was yet a public official he began the foundation of his business career. In 1884, at the age of thirty-one, he started the Valley Bank of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona. He was its first presi- dent. This bank has now the largest resources of any in the State. He remained actively interested in its affairs, which prospered, until 1889, when he happened to make a visit to Los Angeles. There he discovered a new opportunity. Los An- geles was then just well started on its career of great growth. A syndicate of Chicago men had just completed a costly cable tramway system. The cable system was frequently paralyzed by the win- ter rains, which washed sand into the cable slots, causing delay for days at a time. General Sher- man knew that in a couple of the Eastern cities electric street railway systems had been successful- ly started. It occurred to him that the failure of the cable system left an opening for the electric. He acted at once on the idea, enlisted his brother- in-law, E. P. Clark, raised capital, secured a fran- chise, and built the first tracks of the Los Angeles Railway. General Sherman was the President of the system and Mr. Clark vice president and gen- eral manager. Soon thereafter the electric system absorbed the cable railway. The success of the first electric venture was such that the Los Angeles and Pasadena Electric Railway was organized and built to Pasadena and Altadena by Gone'al Sherman and Mr. Clark. Later this property, as well as the Los Angeles railway system, was sold to H. E. Huntington. The next venture in the electric railway field was the construction by the brothers-in-law of the Los Angeles Pacific Railway to Hollywood, Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica, Ocean Park, Redondo and other points. They covered with a close network all the territory between Los Angeles and the Santa Monica bay beaches. They sold this system to the late E. H. Harriman, not long before his death, for a very large sum of money. Mr. Sherman and Mr. Clark were the pioneer electric railway builders of the Pacific Coast, and have the credit of building the greatest interurban system in the world. The systems, now consoli- dated, all of which they started, make Los Angeles an interurban center greater than any half dozen cities in America combined. Mr. Sherman is still a director in all the "Harriman" electric railways in Southern California. He did not confine his railroad construction to Los Angeles. As early as 1884 he built the Phoenix Railway. This line he still owns. He extended it in 1910 to Glendale, Arizona, to connect with the Santa Fe system. He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Mer- chants' National Bank and the Southern Trust Com- pany of Los Angeles, and has very extensive oil interests. He is a director in many companies and is one of the large property owners of California and Arizona. He is a member of the California Club, the Jona- than Club, Country Club, Bolsa Chica Gun Club and others of Los Angeles, and of the Chamber of Com- merce. He is also a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. 64 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY EARSON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, General Super- intendent of the California Edison Company, Los An- geles, California, was born in Middlesex County, England, September 19, 1868, a descendant of the distinguished old Pearson family of Salopia. His father was Benjamin Pearson and his mother Sarah Louis (Maile) Pearson. He married Florence Louise Wyatt at Red- lands, California, July 30, 1892, by which union there are two sons, Harols Benjamin and Robert Rolland Pearson. Mr. Pearson was edu- cated in St. Mary's School, of Cowley, and the Uxbridge Grammar School, England. At the age of fourteen yeaj-s Mr. Pearson was apprenticed to the Grand Junction Company of England as a steam en- gineer and fitter. He made a study of steam and mechanical engineer- ing and at the early age of eighteen years held a ma- rine license under the London Board of Exam- iners. He remained in England until he was twenty years of age, when he decided to cross the Atlantic with the determination to build a career in the United States. During one and a half years he followed various occupations throughout Europe and the United States, arriving in Los Angeles in January, 1889. He was then following steam and sanitary engineering as a profession and in 1896 began specialization in Hydro-Elec- tric work. In 1896, Mr. Pearson entered the employ of the Southern California Edison Company, with which corporation he has been identified for fifteen years. Beginning with the com- pany at the lowes', rung of the ladder he did not hesitate to engage in laboring work, be- ing determined to ground himself thoroughly in what has become one of the most import- ant engineering and industrial factors in the United States. During the years following he was repeatedly advanced through all the grades, owing to his mechanical and execu- tive ability, until he was appointed General Superintendent of that great corporation. He has devoted almost all of his attention to the success of the corporation, dealing fairly with everyone, using his ability to its fullest extent in the interest of the company. Mr. Pearson has always been identified with the Republican party while at the same time being in sympathy with any non-partisan or partisan progressive pol- icy. He stands squarely for the people and boasts that he would rather be known as a friend of "the man who works" than anything else. He is honest and fearless in the stand he takes with ref- erence to his beliefs and the principles- he consid- ers essential in public or patriotic private life. ]vlr. Pearson still is in the prime of life and works on an average of eighteen hours a day. He is well known as a phil- anthropist throughout Southern California, and after his day's work is done, devotes his spare hours to helping those who are not so fortunate as he. He has spent a number of years in tem- perance and rescue work and has started hun- dreds of men in the right direction — always ready to extend a helping hand to any man "down and out." He has been instrumental in liberating on parole scores of prisoners from San Quentin and Folsom prisons in California, and is fa- miliarly known to the great majority as "Un- cle Ben." Due to his efforts, hundreds of men have been turned from lives of crime and placed on the right track ; and those who were a charge to the state are now enjoying the privileges of citizenship, wage earners and supporting their families. In the early part of 1911, he was appointed by Governor Johnson a Trustee of the Whit- tier State Reform School. He is a director of the Union and City Rescue Missions and of the Prison Parole League. He is a member of the American Tns»i- tute of Electrical Engineers. F. PEARSON NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 65 A R K E R, W I L L I A:\I AL- FRED, merchant, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Owen- burg, Indiana, born March 11, 1864, the son of O. T. Barker and Arene (Record) Barker. He married Pauline Berman, at Los Angeles, August 19, 1887, and to them there were born two children, Everett, an art student, and Lawrence, now attending Yale University. Mr. Barker's childhood was spent in his native Indiana home, but at an early age his family moved to Colorado and it was in the pubUc schools of that State that he received his education. He prepared for college, and in 1880 re- ceived an appointment from Colorado to the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, Mary- land. He had nearly com- pleted his studies when, in 1883, Congress passed an act limiting the classes to ten men only, because of a surplus of naval officers. As a result of this action numerous cadets resigned from the academy and Mr. Barker was among them. Immediately after quit- ting Annapolis Mr. Barker went to Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, whither his family had moved, and there went small capacity for the firm Allen, merchants, of member. After a year with this firm Mr. Barker's father bought out Mr. Allen and organized the firm of O. T. Barker and Sons, taking Mr. Bar- ker in as one of the partners. The latter re- mained with the firm for three years, working in various capacities, then withdrew in 1887 to work for the Milwaukee Furniture Company in the capacity of general salesman. In 1890 Mr. Barker organized the firm of Bailey and Barker Bros. A year later Mr. Bailey retired and the firm name was changed to Barker Bros., and Mr. W. A. Barker was acting as secretary and treasurer of this firm until 1906. He in that year organized the Pacific Pur- chasing Company, one of the most ambitious concerns in the commercial history of the West. Clubs. W. A. BARKER to work in a of Barker and which his father was a This company owned seven wholesale and re- tail furniture stores, and for two years was a tremendous success ; its business being reputed to be the largest of the kind in the country. In 1908, however, owing to the anti-trust agi- tation, it came under the consideration of the Federal authorities. Mr. Barker was presi- dent at that time. After a trial, which is his- toric in corporation affairs, it was decided that the ownership of so many stores constituted a monop- oly in restraint of trade, and Mr. Barker willingly bowed to the decree of the court and dissolved the concern. His prominence in this matter made Mr. Barker one of the most conspicu- ous business men on the Pacific Coast, his forma- tion of the purchasing company having shown him an executive organ- izer of exceptional ability. Following the dissolu- tion of the Pacific Pur- chasing Company Mr. Bar- ker devoted his entire at- tention to the business of Barker Brothers, and in 1910 was elected to the presidency of the firm, a position he still occupies. He has been a director of the Merchants National Bank for years. Mr. Barker has been a director and office holder in several mining and oil enterprises, and retains interests in some of the substantial ones. He has also been conspicuous in the politics of Los Angeles, but outside of serving on the executive staff of the city and county central committees, has never been a public official. He quit political work in 1907, after sev- enteen years in the arena, but he still retains a keen interest, as a layman, in the destinies of his party, besides being concerned in the progress of the city. Mr. Barker has crossed the American continent eighty-two times, a record equaled by few persons. He is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce and the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Los Angeles, and holds member- ships in the University, Jonathan, California, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country 66 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY UGHES, HENRY WEST, Retired Physician, President Union Trust Company, Los Angeles, California, was born at Tulip, Dallas County, Ar- kansas, April 3, 1858. His father was George W. Hughes and his mother Martha Wyche (Butler) Hughes. He was married on the 8th day of June, 1892, at Louisville, Ky., his wife being Cora Jarvis. Dr. Hughes attended a private school in his na- tive town until he was sixteen years of age and then entered the Univer- sity of Virginia, where he was graduated with the degree of A. M. in 1879. He was then twenty-one years of age and deter- mined to study abroad for a time. He traveled through France, Ger- many and other countries, making a study of the lan- guage and the people of each nation. In the fall of 1882 he returned to the United States and entered the Medical School of Har- vard University, remain- ing there one year. He then went to the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of New York City and in 1885 received the M. D. degree. The next two years he spent on the surgical staff of the New York Hos- pital, an institution which afforded him many opportunities for gaining the practical expe- rience which stood him in such fine stead during the years of his subsequent practice. Upon leaving the hospital. Dr. Hughes became connected with the medical exam- iners' staff of a large life insurance company in New York and remained in that work for about eight months, at the same time keep- ing up a constant study in the medical field. In the early part of 1889 he determined to go to California. He made the trip to the western coast by way of the Isthmus of Panama, landing at San Francisco after a voyage of thirty days. Shortly after settling at Los Angeles a smallpox epidemic broke out at San Fernando, near Los Angeles, and Dr. Hughes took charge of that plague. He dropped all other work to aid in checking DR. HENRY WEST HUGHES the disease, and for many weeks worked night and day, and deserves much credit for stamping out the epidemic which at one time threatened the lives of hundreds. Returning to Los Angeles, he opened of- fices at 175 North Spring Street, and for fourteen years following was prominently identified with the medical advancement of Los Angeles and Southern California. In 1900 his father died and two years later Dr. Hughes retired from act- ive practice. Since 1902 Dr. Hughes has identified himself with the business growth and advancement of Southern California, more specifically Los An- geles. He is heavily in- terested in a number of well-known corporations, being President of the Union Trust Company, Treasurer of the Associ- ated Bank Corporation, and Secretary of the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, and also owns a good deal of valuable city real estate, the doc- tor being an ardent be- liever in this form of in- vestment. Dr. Hughes is a thirty- second degree Mason, life member of the Mystic Shrine, and holds memberships in the Uni- versity Club of Los Angeles, the Los An- geles Country Club and the Annandale Country Club. He is a golfer, hunter and spends many leisure hours in fishing. Like the average business man of the day. Dr. Hughes has a hobby — it is that of collecting oil paintings, and he is probably the possessor of the largest collection of rare works of art in Los Angeles. He has paint- ings from such eminent artists as Corot, Dupre and the great Daubigny — fine repre- sentations of the Barbizon School. He has ten paintings from the late William Keith, of whom Dr. Hughes was a personal friend. He also owns many fine paintings of Southern California artists. In his artistic home, at 500 West Twenty- third street. Dr. Hughes is always glad to welcome the lover of art. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 67 ORRISON, ALEXANDER FRANCIS, Attorney-at-Law, San Francisco, Cal., was born in Weymouth, Mass., Feb. 22, 1856, the son of Archibald Morrison and Ellen (Hart) Morrison. As he came to San Francisco in 1864, when he was eight years old, and has grown up with the city, he is generally regarded as a true San Franciscan. On April 27, 1893, he was married, at Turner, Oregon, to Miss May B. Treat. After a course in the public schools of San Francisco he attended the Boys' High School, from 1872 to 1874, and then entered the University of California, from which he was graduated A. B. with the Class of 78. In 1881 he took the degree of LL. B. from the Has- tings College of the Law and began the active practice of his profes- sion. While he was a stu- dent at Hastings he sup- plemented his studies with some practical ex- perience in the law oflfice of Cope & Boyd, and not long after his admission to the bar, in 1881, he formed a partnership with Thomas V. O'Brien, under the name of O'Brien & Morrison. In 1889 this was changed to O'Brien, Morrison & Dainger- iield. Two years later Mr. Morrison withdrew from this firm and formed an alliance with the late C. E. A. Foerster, which continued until the latter's death, in 1898. Hon. W. B. Cope having joined the firm in 1896, the title remained Morrison & Cope until 1906, when it became Morrison, Cope & Brobeck, and on the death of Judge Cope, in 1908, Morrison & Brobeck. The present firm of Morrison, Dunne & Brobeck was formed in 1910. During these years Mr. Morrison's prac- tice has been of a general nature, but chieflj in corporation law, wherein his skill and character have won him an unusual degree of respect and confidence. Almost from the start he has had charge of cases involving A. F. MORRISON important questions and interests. Con- spicuous among these was his attorneyship for the settlement of the George Crocker Trust, and also for the estate of Col. Charles F. Crocker. His identification with the Crocker inter- ests, especially as they relate to the public, was still more prominent in the part he played in the proceedings whereby the debt of the Central Pacific Railroad Company was readjusted and the prop- erty of that company ac- quired by the Southern Pacific. In fact, his success in bringing about settle- ments and relations as harmonious and satisfac- tory as the conditions will permit has been as pronounced as is his rep- utation for diffidence and trustworthiness. Mr. Morrison's special hobby is historical read- ing, and in the pursuit thereof he has collected what is probably the largest private library of historical works to be found in the State. It comprises more than ten thousand well selected volumes. Among the various corporations of which he is a director are the Crocker Estate Com- pany, the Crocker, Huffman Land ind Water Company, the Crocker National Bank of San Francisco, the Western Sugar Refining Company, the Spreckels Sugar Company, the National Ice and Cold Storage Company, the Parrafine Paint Company and others. Mr. Morrison is a member of the Ameri- can Historical Association, the Pacific Coast Historical Society, the California Academy of Sciences, the National Geographical So- ciety, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the American Eco- nomic Society. In each of these organiza- tions, which have for the objects modern ac- complishment, Mr. Morrison is an enthusi- astic worker and takes an active part. He is a member of the Pacific-Union Club, the University Club, the Commercial Club and the University of California. 68 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 69 EARST, WILLIAM RANDOLPH. Editor, San Francisco and New Yorli, was born in San Francisco, April 29, 1863, the son of United States Senator George Hearst and Phoebe (Apperson) Hearst. His father had great intellectual powers and was a conspicuous figure in the early history of the West. His mother is a noted philanthropist and uplifter, having given vast sums to aid in the education of the poor. She has established numerous kindergar- tens and libraries in various parts of the West and at the present time occupies a place on the Board of Regents of the University of California, to which she gave a building costing approximately four mil- lion dollars. Mr. Hearst married Miss Millicent V. Willson in New York City, April 28, 1903. To them there have been born three children, George, Wil- liam Randolph, Jr., and John Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst received his elementary education in the public schools of his native city, and later at- tended Harvard University. Upon his return to San Francisco after comple- tion of his college career, Mr. Hearst was placed in control of the San Francisco "Examiner" by his father, who had himself up to that time (1886) con- ducted the paper as an organ for the people. This inherited policy Mr. Hearst has never changed: he has made it the guiding principle of all his subse- quent newspaper enterprises. After conducting the San Francisco "Examiner" for nine years with a large degree of success, add- ing to its prestige as a journal and its value as a property, Mr. Hearst's progressive spirit sought larger fields. Accordingly, he went to New York, in 1895, and purchased the old New York "Journal," later acquiring the New York "Advertiser," and consolidating the two, issuing morning and after- noon editions. The arrival of Mr. Hearst into New York not only changed the .iournalistic methods of the me- tropolis, but was the beginning of a new era in newspaper operation as a whole. Surrounding him- self with the best talent to be procured, Mr. Hearst projected his ideas and bis personality into the field in such a manner that within a short time he was recognized as the embodiment of a new thought in journalism. His cardinal principles in the conduct of his papers have been the protection of the people, the correction of government evils, city, state and national, and the enactment of legislation in- tended for the betterment of the people as a whole. In following out this policy, Mr. Hearst has been a potential influence in the establishment of pro- gressive reforms, which have purified politics and raised the general moral plane of life in various communities. After fighting strenuously for five years in New York, with the "Journal" as a militant P'^wer for right. Mr. Hearst invaded Chicago, bv establishing the Chicago "American," an afternoon paper. Two years later the Chicago "Examiner," a morning issue, was founded, and that same year the morn- ing edition of the New York "Journal" became known as "The New York American." Eight years ago (1903') he established the Los Angeles "Exami- ner," and a year later the "American" in Boston. He also owns the "Morgen Journal" (New York), the largest and most influential German daily in the United States, and several other weekly and monthly publications. All of Mr. Hearst's newspapers are maintained along the same general lines as those upon which he conducted his first publication. In their respec- tive fields they are relentless in their efforts for the eradication of corruption in politics, corporation oppression and other evils of local or national extent. One of Mr. Hearst's large and most important institutions is the International News Service, origi- nally organized for gathering and distributing news, covering the especially big events of the world for his own publications. It is today one of the largest news agencies in the world and supplies, in addi- tion to his own, hundreds of other large news- papers. It has had a most important influence on the newspaper situation of the world. A fact worthy of mention is that Mr. Hearst Is a thorough newspaper man. He knows the business in its every detail, from the mechanical to the edi- torial. He is the active director of his various publications. Born a Democrat, Mr. Hearst has been a com- manding figure in the affairs of his party, nationally and otherwise. He has fathered many sound poli- cies for the guidance of the organization, and was at one time President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs. At times his ideas have not been in harmony with those of other leaders, and on such occasions he has voiced his sentiments edi- torially and in public speeches. It was such a situ- ation that led to the formation by Mr. Hearst, in February, 1906, of the Independence League, a movement the purpose of which, as avowed by dele- gates in convention at Albany, N. Y., was to over- throw boss rule and 'corporation control of the Gov- ernment. Its necessity was due to the lack of a di- rect nominations law, which prevented progressive Democrats and Republicans from exercising any voice in the selection of candidates or writing of platforms. The cardinal principles of the Indepen- dence League, as announced in its national platform, were direct nominations, direct election of Senators, income tax, initiative, referendum and recall, postal savings banks, parcels post, inland waterways development, conservation of natural resources, physical valuation of railroads, no injunc- tion without notice and hearing, and all contempt of court cases to be tried by a jury; opposition to child labor and the manufacture and sale of prison- m.ade goods; revision of the tariff; all money to be issued by the Government, and "imprisonment of individuals criminally responsible for trusts, in- stead of merely fining the stockholders." The general acceptance of these doctrines today is apparent from their mere enumeration. Mr. Hearst served in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty- ninth Congresses, from the Eleventh District in New York, and during his service at Washington originated and carried to successful conclusion, oftentimes in the face of bitter opposition, various measures of reform. He introduced bills increas- ing the powers of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, and creating the Interstate Commerce Court, the principle of both of which bills has since been enacted into law; a bill to establish the Par- cels Post; a bill for the eight-hour day, and the payment of the prevailing rate of wages by all Federal contractors and sub-contractors; a bill to promote the construction of a national system of good roads; a bill to increase the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court; a bill to enlarge the domestic market for farm products and in- crease the industrial uses of denatured alcohol; a bill for the incorporation and regulation of all cor- porations engaged in interstate business under a 70 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY national incorporation law, adequately protecting the public against watered stocks and bonds; a bill to enable the United States to acquire, maintain and operate electric telegraphs, paying therefor by the sale of bonds redeemable out of net earnings; a bill to authorize the acquisition by the United States of the entire capital stock and property of the Panama Railroad Company, and to provide for the maintenance, operation and development by the Government of the railroad and steamship proper- ties and lines so acquired; a bill constituting a rigid and adequate Federal Corrupt Practices Act; a bill making railroad rebating a criminal offense; and a bill amending the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, strengthening it as a criminal statute and making it apply to combinations and restraints of trade in and monopoly of products of labor. Mr. Hearst's battles in the interests of the peo- ple have been numerous and varied, but almost universally successful, and have been of national importance in virtually every instance. Following are some of the notable things he did: He frustrated the fuel gas franchise grab in New York, in 1896, worth $50,000,000 to its pro- moters. He blocked the Ice Trust's plan to raise its price and started suits to dissolve the combine, in 1900, and forced the price down from 60 to 30 cents a hundred in three months. He fought successfully in Legislature against "dollar gas," and compelled an eighty-cent rate to be put in effect; similar, but shorter, gas fights were inaugurated by him bring- ing about reductions in Boston and Chicago. He brought about the conviction of the president and the payment of depositors in the wrecked Seventh National Bank of New York. He caused the elec- trization of the New York Central Railroad follow- ing a tunnel disaster costing forty lives. At the height of the first anthracite coal strike he pro- duced evidence showing combination between nine Pennsylvania railroads and fought the case with such vigor that the United States Government, under President Taft, brought and won an injunc- tion suit against railroads holding stock of the Tem- ple Iron Company, through which the combination was carried on, the case finally reaching the United States Supreme Court. The effect of this publicity ultimately led to rate reductions by various rail- roads and the radical amendment of the Interstate Commerce law. He started rebating suits against the New York Central, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and allied roads for rebating, which resulted in the roads' paying large fines to the Government. Mr. Hearst was thanked by Attorney General Moody for his activity in the case against the Sugar Trust for rebating, which resulted in the combine's paying fines aggregating $250,000 and the ultimate exposure of its workings, which caused the corpora- tion to refund millions of dollars to the Govern- ment in unpaid duties. He conducted a fight for twenty-five years which resulted in San Francisco getting a municipal water supply and the ownership of street railways. He also produced the first evidence and led in the campaign against the Ruef-Schmitz graft ring in San Francisco, which sent Ruef to prison and freed the city from one of the most obnoxious systems of corruption in the history of the United States. He also exposed the "120 per cent Miller" syndi- cate swindle. He caused the Southern Pacific and other railroads to rebuild their roads so as to safe- guard human life and directed scores of other fights in the various cities where his papers are pub- lished which saved the people millions of dollars and lightened their burdens in divers ways. In his various campaigns Mr. Hearst has been ever ready to espouse the cause of a worthy man or measure, as was indicated in his memorable fight tor the adoption of the reciprocity treaty be- tween Canada and the United States. But, on the other hand he has never hesitated to criticise the unworthy actions of any public official, national or local. Mr. Hearst, in times of disaster in any part of the world, has been one of the leaders in the work of aiding the poor and alleviating suffering. In 1906, when San Francisco was stricken by earth- quake and destroyed by fire, he sent the first relief train into the city, following this with several others, and, altogether, raised $250,000 for the re- lief of the sufferers. "When news of the catastrophe was heard he immediately instructed all of his papers to spare no expense and to leave no stone unturned in an endeavor to secure all supplies in their respect- ive cities and ship at once to San Francisco. His instructions were to hire special trains or to attach cars to any available train in order to reach the stricken city at the earliest possible moment. From Los Angeles he sent one special passenger train containing provisions, doctors, nurses and medical supplies, and later sent a special from Chicago con- taining one hundred doctors and all available med- ical supplies. The steamer Roanoke sailed from Los Angeles, containing twenty-two carloads of pro- visions, four of which were contributed by Mr. Hearst. Trains, under his lease and orders, were made up in Chicago, New York and Boston, each containing numerous cars, filled by him with pro- visions and clothing. Almost every day one or more cars from the various headquarters estab- lished by Mr. Hearst throughout the country were sent forth containing supplies contributed by him. This was kept up day after day during the entire period of need. Five years previously, when Galveston was al- most swept out of existence by flood, Mr. Hearst performed similar services, sending one relief train from Chicago and one from New York, which rushed provisions, doctors and nurses to the scene of trou- ble. He also raised and sent $50,000 cash. At other times he contributed freely to the relief of starving thousands during famine periods in India and Cuba and to disaster victims in other parts of the world. To the earthquake sufferers in Italy he sent $35,000, composed of his own and other contributions made through the efforts of his publications. By a vigorous editorial campaign and personal effort, Mr. Hearst was instrumental in securing re- forms in the cause of humanity in the Congo dis- trict, where the natives had been the objects of cruelty and oppression unequaled in any other country on the globe. Although he has lived in New York the greater part of the time in recent years, Mr. Hearst has lost none of the civic patriotism he felt for San Francisco, and when the matter of the Panama-Pa- cific Exposition was up in Congress, threw all his influence and the weight of his newspapers into the fight wETch the business men of the Bay City were making for the great fair. His work, with that of the others, finally won the honor for their city. Among his clubs are the Pacific Union, of San Francisco; the Manhattan Club, Union Club, Na- tional Democratic Club, City Lunch Club, Press Club, National Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club and the Atlantic Yacht Club, of New York, and the Chicago Press Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 71 USTIN, JOHN CORNELEY WILSON, Architect, Los An- geles, California, was born at Bodicote, near Banbury, Ox- fordshire, England, February 13, 1870. He is the son of Richard Wilson Austin and Jane Elizabeth Austin of Eng- land. He has been married twice, the second marriage being in 1902, when he was wedded to Hilda Violet Mytton in Los Angeles. By the first marriage there is one child, Dorothy Austin, and by the second there are five children, Mar- jorie, Ada, William, Hilda and Angela. Mr. Austin was edu- cated in private schools of England and at various times was under the di- rection of a tutor. He went through an architec- tural apprentice course in England while studying in the ofifices of William S. Barwick, architect. At the age of twenty- one, moved by a desire to see the world, he came to America, and settled at Philadelphia. This was in 1891, at which time he entered the employ of Benjamin Linfoot, one of the prominent architects o f Philadelphia, with whom he remained for one year. He then returned to England, where he again went into the offices of the Barwick firm. His stay in England was brief; three months after taking his position with the Barwick Company he again sailed for the United States. This time he continued west and crossed the continent, settling at San Francisco. He sought and found employ- ment with the firm of William Mooser and C. J. Devlin, with whom he stayed for two and a half years. At the end of that period he returned to England, where he visited his relatives for three months. On returning to San Francisco he went with his former employers, but the great rush to Los Angeles and Southern California was then attracting the attention of the entire country and Mr. Austin joined in the rush to that city. He arrived there in 1894 and has since made it his home. JOHN C Upon his arrival in Los Angeles Mr. Aus- tin worked for several firms, among them be- ing Morgan and Walls, but two years later opened ofifices for himself. From that date he gradually worked his way to the front and is now recognized as one of the leading archi- tects in the West. He has constructed everything from a mission style building to the most up-to-date and modern sky-scraper and has played a leading" role in the rapid architec- tural development of Los Angeles and Southern California. His business extends all through the Southwest and embraces some of the most noted structures of the Pacific Coast. His work is rep- resented east as far as Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in Arizona and Washington and British Columbia. Among his best ex- amples of construction are the following : Wright and Callender Building; the Potter Hotel, at Santa Barbara ; the Virginia Hotel, of Long Beach; many local schools and churches ; Madam Erskine M. Ross' beautiful home at Vermont and Wilshire boulevards ; the First Methodist churches of both Los Angeles and Pasadena ; the California and Angelus Hos- pitals; Harvard Military School, Ontario High School, Grand Avenue School, Twelfth and E. Street Grammar School of San Diego ; every building constructed in Del Mar; the Darby, Freemont, Leighton, Hershey Arms and Alvarado hotels of this city. Besides his many business interests, which are scattered over a greater part of the State, he is deeply interested in the cause of the needy and is at the present time President of the L. A. Humane Society for Children; a member of the L. A. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and an associate mem- ber of the national body. He is a member of the Jonathan Club and Sierra Madre Club of this city and of the L. A. Chamber of Com- merce. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, Al Malai- kah Temple. AUSTIN 72 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ^^Xm/ BBOTT, WILLIAM MAR- TIN, General Attorney for the United Railroads, San Francisco, California, was born in that city, March 17, 1872, the son of William Abbott and Anna- bell Casselman Abbott. Descending from a race of Devonshire lawyers, in whose blood the fighting strain was especially prominent in Mr. Abbott's grand- father, who fought under Wellington, he has re- mained true to his tradi- tions, and furnished fair- ly strong evidence that heredity is still a potent force. Mr. Abbott was mar- ried in San Francisco, August 3, 1895, to Miss Anna Josephine Mac- Vean, and is the father of two sons, William Lindley Abbott and Ti- rey Casselman Abbott. The John. Swett Grammar School, 1887 ; the Boys' High School, 1890, and the Hastings College of the Law, 1893, were his successive grad- uating mile-posts. Immediately upon his final graduation, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and when he was just of age, Mr. Abbott began the practice of his profession. For two years he met with encouraging success. In 1895 Mr. Cross, in whose office he had supplemented his studies while he was a law student, made him a member of the firm of Cross, Ford, Kelley and Abbott. On the dissolution of this firm two years later Mr. Abbott resumed his individual prac- tice, but in 1898 Tirey L. Ford, who had be- come Attorney General of California, ap- pointed him Deputy Attorney General. He was placed in charge of the opinion depart- ment, a quasi-judicial post that offered a splendid opportunity for brilliant work and invaluable experience. Here he had to deal with requests for opinions from the (jovernor, State officers and institutions, the district at- torneys of the State and other similar sources. During his term of office he played a prominent part in the Atlantic and Pacific Tax Cases, following them to the L^nited AVILLIAM States Supreme Court, and attracted flatter- ing attention by his able handling of them. In 1902 Mr. Abbott became Assistant General Counsel for the United Railroads. He was one of the attorneys for Brown Brothers, the Baltimore syndicate which purchased the properties now owned by the United Rail- roads, and was active in the consolidation of all the street railways. Shortly after the big fire in 1906 Mr. Abbott was associated with the defense in the so-called graft prosecution, where- in his legal knowledge and judgment materially aided the preparation of his clients' cases. In 1910 he was appointed Gen- eral Attorney for the United Railroads. He is president of the Market Street Railway Company, the San Fran- cisco and San Mateo Electric Railway Com- pany, the Metropolitan Railway Company, and is vice president of the South San Francisco Railroad and power Com- pany and a director of the United Railroads Company. Until recent years he was very active politi- calh' and has been a delegate to all of the Republican State and local conventions. Mr. Abbott's club and social activities are wide and varied. He is a member of the National Geographical Society, the Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Sci- ences, the Academy of Pacific Coast History, and is treasurer and ex-vice president of the California Historical Landmark League. He belongs to the Union League, the Bohemian Club, the California Tennis Club and to the B. P. ( ). Elks, of which last he is Past Ex- alted Ruler. He has filled all the offices of the local lodge of the N. S. G. W. and is at ])resent a member of Stanford Parlor No. 76, X. S. G. A\'. He is a member of California Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M,, California Chapter No. 5, R. A. M., Knights Templar, California Commandery No. 1 ; a jMystic Shriner and a member of the legal fraternitv, the Phi Delta Phi. ABBOTT NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 73 NOX, FRANK, Banking, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born at Washington, Iowa, the son of William Knox and Eliza- beth (Short) Knox. He mar- ried Julia M. Granby, at Red Oak, Iowa, in 1882, and to them there have been born three children: De Witt, George G. and Frances May Knox. His father being a farmer and stock raiser, Mr. Knox spent his early days on the farm. He attended the pub- lic schools and wound up his studies with a brief attendance at Washing- ton Academy, in his na- tive town. Mr. Knox began his business career as mes- senger for the First Na- tional Bank of Washing- ton, Iowa, at the age of fifteen years and contin- ued with that organiza- tion until he had attained the position of Assistant Cashier. He resigned from that post in 1885 and then moved to Osborne, Kan- sas, where he organized the First National Bank, in which he was one of the principal owners and Cashier. This was the real be- ginning of his career as a financier, and in addition to his holdings at Osborne he be- came associated as President and chief owner of two State banks in the Sunflower State. He was actively engaged in the conduct of the three institutions until November, 1889, and at that time he decided to move further West. Accordingly he sold out all of his inter- ests in the Kansas institutions and went to Salt Lake City, Utah. He arrived there in January, 1890, and immediately set about organizing the National Bank of the Re- public. This concern was opened for business in May, 1890, and Mr. Knox was chosen its president and general manager. He has continued as such ever since and has been the directing factor in all its success during the twenty-one years that have elapsed. FRANK KNOX The bank began business as a brand new enterprise, without any old following, the in- tegrity and financial strength of its backers being its best recommendation. It has grown to be one of the largest financial institutions between Denver and the Pacific Coast, being a Government depository with the largest deposits of any National bank in the State. Mr. Knox's time has been given over al- most entirely to the man- agement of the bank, and as a consequence he has had little opportunity to engage actively in any other business. His interests outside of the bank consist of large holdings in real estate in Salt Lake and mining in Utah and Nevada. Mr. Knox takes an active part in the affairs of the American Bankers' Association, of which he is a prominent member. He has been chosen vice president for Utah sev- eral times and served one term on the executive council. His position in the financial world and his native energy have made him a man conspicuous in the civic upbuilding of Salt Lake City, and de- spite his close application to his banking du- ties he has always been among the leaders in any movement which had for its object the betterment of Salt Lake City proper and the State of Utah as a whole. He is also a generous-hearted philanthro- pist, bestowing his charities with lavish hand and little ostentation. Mr. Knox has been an extensive traveler in Europe and the United States and has a remarkable following of friends in financial circles throughout the nation. He has always maintained a keen, patri- otic interest in the political affairs of his adopted city, but has never held office. A man of striking personality and mag- netism, Mr. Knox is very popular among his associates and is a leading clubman. He holds memberships in the Alta Club, the Country Club and the Commercial Club, all of Salt Lake. 74 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OBINGIER, ANDREW- STEWART, Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, is a na- tive of Laurelville, Pennsyl- vania, where he was born De- cember 22, 1862. His parents were Jacob Lobingier and Lillian Findley (Stewart) Lobingier ; among his notable ancestors were Christopher Lobingier, colonial Hugue- not, and Judge John Lob- ingier. Dr. Lobingier was married on Novem- ber 2, 1889, to Miss Kate Reynolds at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and one daughter, Gladys, was born to them. As a boy. Dr. Lobin- gier was prepared for col- lege at the Mt. Pleasant Institute at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1880-83. He entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he took his A. B. degree in 1886. Immedi- ately on completing his regular course at the Uni- versity, he took up the study of medicine and surgery, completing it and taking his degree of M. D. in 1889. At the conclusion of his college career, Dr. Lobingier went to Den- ver, Colorado, and opened an office for the practice of medicine. Soon he was elected to the professorship of Bac- teriology and Pathology in the Gross Medical College. Two years later he was elected to the chair of Pathology and Surgical Pathol- ogy in the University of Colorado at Denver and was a member of the faculty of that in- stitution for eleven years. During that time he successively held the chairs of Clinical Surgery and Chief of the Surgical Clinic (1893), Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery and Surgeon to the University Hospital (1896). He was Chief of the Department of Surgery in the Univer- sity for the subsequent six years, but re- signed on account of impaired health, April, 1902, and went to Los Angeles. In Denver he was a charter member of the Denver City Troop and Acting Surgeon of the Second Colorado Regiment during the Leadville riots. He was also treasurer of DR. A. S. LOBINGIER the troop and for several years secretary of the Colorado State Medical Society. In June, 1902, he attended the British Medical Association meeting in Manchester, England, then spent the summer and autumn in the study of surgery with the leading surgeons of Heidelberg, Berlin, Paris, Vien- na, and London, after which he returned to Los Angeles to engage in surgical practice. In 1906, he devoted a sec- ond period of study under the great surgeons of Europe. Dr. Lobingier takes a very natural and proper pride in his ancestry, which, on his father's side is of Huguenot stock and on his mother's Scotch. His paternal ancestors were driven from their homes in France as a re- sult of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which removed their guarantees of safety and religious freedom. In the wide-spread ex- odus from France which followed, and which ex- tended to England, and to the United States, Dr. Lobingier's paternal for- bears selected the United States as their refuge, and sailed for America in 1727. Arriving in this country, they made their homes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The original colonist of the family was Christopher Lobingier. His son of the same name was very active in the Revolution, and in the founding of the com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. He was a close friend of Benjamin Franklin, and was a member of the first conference committee, the committee to raise troops, a member of the constitutional convention, and a member of the first legislature of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lobingier is a member of the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, L. A. County Medical Society, Southern Cal- ifornia Medical Association, California State Medical Society, American Medical Associa- tion, American Academy of Medicine, L. A. Academy of Sciences and the National Geo- graphical Society. His clubs are : The Cal. University, Valley Country, Annandale Country, and Gamut Clubs of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 75 AMILTON, WALTER RA- LEIGH, Geologist and Engi- neer, San Francisco, Califor- nia, was born near Modesto, California, August 10, 1880, the son of Henry Hamilton and Nora (Cough- lin) Hamilton. He married Mattie Dunn at Oroville, California, on May 27, 1905, and to them there was born one child, Fay Ham- ilton. From 1886 to 1895 Mr. Hamilton attended the public schools of Stanis- laus County, California, and in the latter year en- tered the University of the Pacific, from which he was graduated into Le- land Stanford University in 1898. This course was interrupted by two years' work in the mines and on dredgers, after which he returned to the Universi- ty and graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1904. Mr. Hamilton is an- other instance of the col- lege-trained man who "makes good" as a stu- dent and makes better as a graduate, thus increas- ing the already long roll of honor. A student ath- lete while at Stanford University, where he was a winner of the mile run in the inter-collegiate games, and also as a substitute on the football team, as well as something of a "dig" in his major subjects — geology and the natural sicences — he has car- ried into his post-graduate life a husky con- stitution and a well-equipped mind, which have contributed much to his success. Shortly after his graduation from Stanford Mr. Hamilton began his professional career as engineer of the Standard Consolidated Mining Company, at Bodie. California, and was soon made assistant superintendent. This property changed hands in 1906, and fol- lowing the general "shake up" that occurred Mr. Hamilton left for Manhattan, Nevada, where he was employed for two months as a surveyor. Returning to San Franciso, he secured the position as assayer for the Ymir Gold Mines, Ltd., of British Columbia, but subsequently found that "the principal thing that was limited was the gold." In January, 1907, he left this limited company, somewhat richer in experience than in substance. The next four months found him acting as engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, from which employ he stepped into the important position of assistant geologist for the Associated Oil Corporation, but after six months in this capacity in the land de- partment he was promoted to the full charge thereof. Here he per- formed the valuable work of organizing the present geological department, of which he became chief geologist, with that title. Here, while acting as ad- viser, he put a staff of competent geologists in the field and laid the foundation of what is to- day the most efficient geological department that any company in the oil field can boast. In 1910 Mr. Hamilton became associated with W. P. Hammon as direc- tor of field operations in oil. These are gradually extending and enlarging the scope of his activities, which at present include the }iIontebello Oil Com- pany, the Oak Ridge, the Gato Ridge, the Coalinga Syndicate and the Oil Field Syndicate Oil Com- panies. As these, however, are in a somewhat tentative state of organization, their names are subject to change. A-Ir. Hamilton is an apt illustration of the value of developing one's natural bent by con- centrating on the work best adapted to the task. In his life he has followed the same habits of devotion to the work in hand that characterized his university experience and has had little time or inclination for clubs and organizations. Those to which he belongs all have bearing on his professional duties, and are the American Institute of Mining Engi- neers, American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, National Geographical Soci- ety and Le Conte Geological Club. He has contributed articles on geological subjects to magazines, the most important, perhaps, of which treatises is his paper, written in col- laboration with Mr. H. H. Kessler, on the "Orbicular Gabbro of Dehesa, California." R. HAMILTON 76 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY TANTON, BRASTUS JAMES, lum- ber, Los Angeles, California, was bom in Angelica, N. Y., in 185G. His father was Erastus H. Stan- ton, born in Hornellsville, N. Y., 1816, a son of James R. Stanton of New York, who served in the War of 1812. Mr. Stanton's father moved to Rockton, 111., in 1854, where he invested in large land interests and be- came later a banker and merchant at Beloit, Wis. In 1868 he moved to Ionia, Mich., engaging in the mercantile business and at the same time made extensive invest- ments, for that period, in the lumber business at Stanton and Sheridan, Mich., the for- mer being named for him. He was for several terms a Senator from Ionia and Mont- calm Counties in the State Legislature. Mr. Stanton's mother was bom in Green County in 1820. One of her brothers, Lyman Sanford, was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and an- other brother, Truman S., was Attorney General. Mr. Stanton married Fannie Boynton in October, 1880, at Albion, Mich. They have had five children: Dede, Helen, Lillian, Leroy and Adelaide; Dede and Helen being deceased. Mr. Stanton received a common school education in Ionia, Mich. At the age of sixteen he was assisting his father in his lumber business, and later in its management until closed out in 1880. He moved to Saginaw, Michigan, in 1884, then the largest lumber man- ufacturing district in the world. Up to this time lumber was practically sold on the docks and transported to market via water. That year he took charge of the sales department of the Saginaw Lumber and Salt Company, one of Michi- gan's largest concerns, sorted the lumber into all the grades for commercial use and marketed it by rail. In 1893 his health failed and he moved to Ari- zona to assist in the development of the properties of the Saginaw Lumber Company at Williams. At this time there was only one saw-mill in Arizona. Mr. Stanton obtained competitive rates from the Santa Fe Railroad Company, and shipped the first lumber to the West and California. He organized the sales for this company and made and shipped the first fruit box to Southern California and de- veloped the first box business in Arizona, shipping into California and Mexico. This pioneer effort has E. J. STANTON since grown to an Immense business at Williams and Flagstaff, Arizona. In 1894 Mr. Stanton moved to Los Angeles, where he has since resided. His first effort there was the box and lumber business, confined to Cali- fornia products. This grew into an immense in- dustry, and was the beginning of the use of the native California woods, sugar and white pine. In 1897 he assisted In the organization of the California Pine Box Company, which was an associa- tion of mills formed for the purpose of the development of the box business to absorb the lower grades of sugar and white pine, for the manufac- ture of fruit boxes on a uni- form basis and to develop market results. This today is one of the largest industries of the State. The output runs into the hundreds of millions of feet and the employment of thousands of men. In 1900 the California Sugar and White Pine Agency was formed for grading the lumber for East- ern and foreign trade. Most large mills were included, and today millions of feet of California sugar and white pine are exported and sold in Eastern states. Mr. Stanton was a member of the company and manager for all the Southwestern territory. The yards were started in 1896. Los An- geles then had a population hardwoods were sold to speak yard today is the largest and most complete in the West and its imports and ex- ports are of large volume. In politics Mr. Stanton is a Republican. He is a self-made man, his first capital being his knowl- edge of the lumber business. He has always taken an interest in the conservation and development of the lumber interests of his State and the West. Among the interests of which he is an officer are: E. J. Stanton, Wholesale and Retail Lumber, sole proprietor; the Klamath River Lumber Com- pany, director; the California Sugar and White Pine Agency, General Manager, Southwestern ter- ritory. Mr. Stanton is a member of the Jonathan, Union League, Los Angeles Athletic and Los Angeles Country clubs; the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce, Chamber of Mines, Los Angeles Com- mandery No. 9, Knights Templar, Los Angeles Consistory No. 3, thirty-second degree Mason, Al Malaikah Shrine and B. P. O. E., No. 99. of 65,000, of. This but no pioneer NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 77 TRONG, FRANK R., real estate operator, Los Angeles, California, is a native of San Diego, where he was born January 5, 1871, his parents being Dr. D. W. and Mary A. Strong. Like most of the notable men of the country, Mr. Strong's education was derived from the public schools and business col- leges of his native city. After leaving school he entered business life at the age of eighteen, as an employe of the famous firm of Easton, Eldridge and Company, in San Diego. He remained with this firm until 1891, when he found himself so well equipped in sagacity that he succeeded to the San Diego business of the firm, and formed a part- nership with M. D. Arms under the name of Strong and Arms, meeting with such a degree of success as to encourage him to seek a wider field. With that end in view he re- moved to Los Angeles in 1895, and formed a part- nership with Mr. F. B. Wilde, a former member of the Easton and Eld- ridge concern, and be- gan business under the style of Wilde and Strong; excellent results attended the career of this firm, which con- tinued until 1900, when Mr. Wilde decided to retire from business activity, and Mr. Strong formed a new partnership with Mr. G. W. Dickinson, who as well had been a San Diegan, and business was continued by the new concern of Strong and Dickinson. The new firm at once engaged in subdi- viding large properties and placing them on the market; they successfully handled in rapid succession eighty such subdivisions. Few real estate operators have had more to do with the imperial development of Los Angeles and Southern California than had Mr. Strong. He acquired large holdings himself, and thus has not only been a dealer deriving profits from his transactions, but has become the owner of farms and business properties which in themselves form hand- some fortunes. FRANK R. STRONG One of his business structures is on Fourth street, between Main and Los An- geles streets; another is on Fifth street, be- tween Broadway and Hill, and Mr. Strong is also the owner of several most valuable pieces of property, notably the southwest corner of Ninth and Spring streets, with Mr. Robert Marsh. This is a location which by many it is believed will be the center of the business activity of the city in the near future. He owns also the corner of Sev- enth street and Central avenue, as well as the southwest corner of Ninth and Central ave- nue, which is occupied by a two-story business building. He has acquired ex- tensive farming lands, which have become his particular charge. He owns two large ranches near La Mirada, twenty miles from Los Angeles; a very large ranch in the Coachella Valley, that is now being planted in cot- ton, alfalfa and dates; these and a 2000-acre i\ * grain ranch at San Ja- il , cinto smilingly evidence / ^ I Mr. Strong's capacity as a farmer. Besides being senior member of the firm of Strong and Dickinson, he is president of the Western Building and Investment Com- pany, president of the Pasadena Park Im- provement Company, president of the Subur- laan Improvement Company, president of the Cottage Terrace Tract, vice president of the Rimpau Heights Company, Alamitos Bay Improvement Company, Alamitos Develop- ment Company, Los Angeles Beach Com- pany, Short Line Beach Company; a director in the British-American Oil Company, the North Midway Oil Company, the Gold Standard Investment Company, the Com- mercial National Bank, the Figueroa Heights Company, the Howard Park Com- pany, and the Crenshaw Investment Com- pany. Mr. Strong is a member of Ramona Parlor Native Sons of the Golden West and of the Union League Club, both of Los An- geles. 78 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ROBERT MARSH NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 79 ARSH, ROBERT, Real Estate, ML Los Angeles, California, was m born in Charleston, Illinois, January 20, 1874, the son of Joseph E. Marsh and Martha J. (Atwood) Marsh. He married Cecile Loth- rop at Alhambra, California, April 12, i8g8, and of the union there have been two children, Florence L. and Martha J. Marsh. The preUminaries of his education he re- ceived in the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas, and concluded with a year in the high school of Los Angeles. Mr. Marsh's parents moved to Little Rock when he was a child, then in 1888 journeyed to San Diego, California, remaining there for three years. In 1891 the family moved to Los Angeles, and there Mr. Marsh has remained down to date. Leaving high school in 1892, without waiting to graduate, Mr. Marsh immediately started forth to make a career for himself. Like many other successful men, his beginning was small. He first went to work in the book store of E. T. Cook, the bookseller, and after four years left that establishment and associated himself with a men's furnishing house in Los Angeles. He remained in this line for approximately two years more and then, in 1898, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he engaged in the wholesale and retail coal business, remaining about two years. Late in 1899 Mr. Marsh gave up his interests there and returned to Los Angeles, to embark upon one of the most active and successful careers in that continually growing community. Mr. Marsh plunged into the swirl of real estate activity in the early part of 1900 and his name is identified intimately with the develop- ment of Los Angeles since that time. He went in for big things from the very outset, and during the eleven years that have intervened has been instrumental in opening up numerous large residenec tracts, more of which are today exclusive home districts. This class of operations, however, has not claimed all his attention. In addition, he has dealt largely in business and suburban prop- erties. In this latter field he has been one of the leading factors for the upbuilding of the outlying districts of Los Angeles. Southern California has had one of the most phenomenal growths in population of any section in the United States and the beautiful suburbs have attracted the larger percentage of the new people. It is due to such men as Mr. Marsh that large stretches of country, until a few years ago ranch lands, have been transformed into beau- tiful, flowering residence parks, built up with handsome homes, with those modern improve- ments and conveniences which make life worth living. Notable among the fine residence tracts which were laid out and improved by Mr. Marsh are Country Qub Park, Western Heights, Westchester Place, Country Club Terrace, Arlington Heigths Terrace and Mount Washington. Each of these is now built up with handsome residences and compare favor- ably with many of the older fashionable sec- tions of the United States. Mr. Marsh's principal business affiliation is Robert Marsh & Co., but he is interested in a number of other enterprises, the combined operations of which make him one of the con- spicuous business men of the Southwest. He has large holdings in the business section of Los Angeles and at this writing is planning for the erection of a skyscraper. By his work of developing real estate prop- erty Mr. Marsh necessarily has been thrown into the midst of all movements intended for the betterment of Los Angeles and the South- west and his name has been linked with nearly every large proposition in the past decade hav- ing to do with the progress of that section. In 1908 he was appointed on the Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce committee having in hand the labor of securing a Union Depot for Los Angeles. This is a public improvement that has long been needed in that city and for three years Mr. Marsh and his associates have been strenuously at work, trying to get the rail- roads to build the station. Partial success has rewarded their efforts, but they are still work- ing on it and Mr. Marsh is one of the leaders in the fight. In addition to this, Mr. Marsh was one of the active factors in the campaign that led to the annexation of San Pedro, California, to Los Angeles, whereby the latter city was given a municipal harbor and placed in a position of importance as an outlet to the Panama Canal. Mr. Marsh is a valued member of th ; Los Angeles Realty Board, and at one time was vice president of that organization. Despite all his business and civic enter- prises, Mr. Marsh is an enthusiastic lodge member and clubman. He is a Mystic Shriner, member of the B. P. O. E., Jonathan Club, Cal- ifornia Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Crags Country Club, San Gabriel Valley Country Club and the Bolsa. Chico Gun Club. 8o PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY HENDERSON HAYWARD WALTER GRESHAM VM AYWARD, HENDERSON, retired Mi physician and banker, Los An- 1 geles, California, was born in " York County, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1844. His parents were Dr. Joseph Hayward and Sally (Brearley) Hayward. He was married to Julia Dibble on April 22, 1897, in San Francisco. Dr. Hayward has eight children by a former mar- riage; Julia Brearley Hayward being the daughter of the present Mrs. Hayward. Dr. Hayward attended the Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, from 1855 to 1858. He then studied in the Medical De- partment of the Georgetown University, Washing- ton, D. C, from which he graduated. From October, 1864, to April, 1865, Dr. Hayward served as Hospital Steward in the United States Army, under Colonel L. A. Edwards, who on being detailed as Chief Medical Officer of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, ap- pointed him Chief Clerk of the Medical Depart- ment of the Bureau. Dr. Hayward spent most of the time of 1869 and 1871 regaining his health which had become im- paired, but in 1871 he settled in Delaware County, near Philadelphia and practiced medicine until 1893, when his health again became impaired and he had to finally relinquish his practice. He came to Los Angeles in December, 1894, and became a permanent resident. He engaged in the oil busi- ness first, as secretary and treasurer of the Coalin- ga Oil Company and subsequently as director in the Reed Crude and Rice Ranch Oil Companies. In 1898 Dr. Hayward became interested in real estate investments and in 1906 retired from all active business pursuits. He is a director of the Security Savings Bank and the Merchants' Bank and Trust Company. He is a member of the Los Angeles Country and the University Clubs. RESHAM, WALTER, Attorney-at- law, Galveston, Texas, was born July 22, 1841, in King and Queen County, Virginia, the son of Ed- ward Gresham and Isabella (Mann) Gresham. He married Josephine C. Mann at Galveston, October 28, 1868. There were bom nine children, Edward (deceased), Estha, Walter (deceased), William (deceased), Jos- ephine C, T. Dew, Frank S., Beulah and Philip. Prior to 1857, he attended the Stevensville Academy in his native county, then entered Edge- hill Academy, remaining until early in 1861, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army. He quit the army and entered the University of Virginia, but re-enlisted the following spring. After a year he returned to the University and stayed there until he received his degree of B. L., June, 1863. A third time he joined the Confederate forces and remained until the surrender at Appomatox in 1865, serving in the 9th and 24th Virginia Cavalry. The year following the war's close he went to Galveston and began law practice, taking an active part in politics. He served in the 20th, 21st and 22d Legislatures of Texas and the 53d Congress, secur- ing the Congressional appropriation which made Galveston a deep water port. He was on the com- mittee which formulated the commission form of government for Galveston and obtained from the Legislature the tax donation, which piovided that city's protective works against floods. He was Pres. Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress and Vice Pres. Nat. Rivers and Harbors Congress. Mr. Gresham was in various partnerships, the last being with his son Walter, who died in 1905. In addition to his legal practice, he is president of the Galveston and Western Railway, and formerly sec- ond vice president and director of the Gjlf, Colo- rado and Santa Fe Railway and director of the Galveston, La Porte and Houston Railway. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 8i INTERHALTBR, WILHELM H ^A y I KARL, Consulting Agriculturist, yjrlF b San Francisco and Los Angeles, was bom In Munich, Bavaria, Germany, February 12, 1868. His father was Leopold Wlnterhalter, M. D., and his mother Minna (Plschborn) Wlnter- halter. He came to America In 1893 and was mar- ried to Nellie Humphreys in San Francisco, October 19, 1898. They have one child, Eleanore Gwendo- lyn, bom in San Francisco. Mr. Wlnterhalter comes from an old family of physicians, dating back to 1721. His an- cestors were mostly court physicians to the Grand Dukes and Kings of Bavaria up to 1850, and also num- bered among them were painters of reputation, sol- diers and merchants. Mr. Wlnterhalter was ed- ucated in Munich and Traun- stein, graduating from the Real Gymnasium in 1885; then went for ten months to Chateau de Gourchevaux, near Morat, Switzerland, to perfect himself in the French language. He then went as appren- tice for one year to Hanover on a large Rlttergut near Wunstorf, in order to become acquainted with practical ag- riculture, before entering the Agricultural Academy Weih- enstephan, near Munich, Ba- varia, from which he was graduated with highest honors in 1889. He then accepted a position as agricultural manager of a large domain at Remstaedt, near Gotha, Thuringen, Germany, which position he held until October, 1901. In order to broaden his knowledge in agri- culture and forestry he accepted a position as field superintendent and assistant forester at the Royal Domain, Sarvar, Hungary. In May, 1893, he came to the United States on a leave of absence to visit the Chicago World's Fair and California. Being charmed with Califor- nia, he decided not to return to Europe, but owing to the hard times of 1893, the seeming impossibil- ity of business to his liking, a trip to Alaska, late in September, 1893, was undertaken. Severe hardships were encountered on this trip, which finally ended on Wood Island, but after a couple of months of employment at the trading station of the North American Commercial Company he then proceeded on a hunting expedition with a few natives south- ward to Unalaska. From there by steamer to St. Michaels, then up the Yukon for 600 miles and back to St. Michaels, and as far north as Point Barrow. Returning in August, 1894, on a coaling vessel to San Francisco, he shortly afterwards joined the ex- perimental station of the Kern County Land Com- W. K. WINTERHALTER pany at Bakersfield. After its discontinuance he took up the study of practical Irrigation. In the fall of 1895 he went to the University of California as post graduate student, and in Janu- ary, 1896, he was appointed secretary to professor Hilgard until January, 1897, when he went to the Sacramento Valley to engage in the dairy business to obtain practical experience In that line. He re- turned to Berkeley to the office of Professor Hilgard in Augjst of the same year for five months, and then accepted the superin- tendency of the Spreckels ranch of 12,000 acres at King City until October. After his marriage and a short vaca- tion he was engaged by the American Beet Sugar Com- pany as agriculturist at their Oxnard factory, having had thorough experience in this branch at Hanover, Thurin- gen and Hungary. In January, 1900, he went for them to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, and took charge of the agricultural work in that State and in Kansas and New Mexico, in- troducing beet culture In those States. He remained at Rockyford, where the first factory had been construct- ed, until November, 1904, when he was appointed man- ager of the second sugar fac- tory in the Arkansas Valley, at Lamar, which was built in 1905. He remained in charge of that factory and of the development of 10,000 acres of land and of the La- mar Canal, which had been purchased, until March, 1907, when he was sent by the president of the company to Europe for the purpose of studying the agricultural situation in the leading beet sugar countries, with instructions to go over the ground thoroughly and without time limit. He traveled and visited sixty-seven sugar factories, and the lar- gest seed-breeding establishments in Germany, Hol- land, Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Poland and Bohemia, and returned to the United States in 1908. He was then appointed to the position of con- sulting agriculturist for the company's six factories, in California, Colorado and Nebraska, which place he filled until January, 1911, when he removed to California, having resigned his position after twelve years' service and established himself as consulting agriculturist in the purchase of land, establishment and operation of ranches, under irrigation or with- out. However, he continued to make beet culture and its many branches a specialty. Mr. Wlnterhalter makes his principal headquar- ters in San Francisco, California, with offices in the Humboldt Savings Bank Building, on Market street. 82 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY UNT, SUMNER P., Architect, Los Angeles, California, was born May 8, 1865, in Brook- lyn, New York; his parents were Stephen P. Hunt and Harriet (Conkling) Hunt. Mr. Hunt was married on January 21, 1892, to Miss Mary Hancock Chapman and a daughter was born to them, Louise Hunt. He was educated in private schools up to the age of fourteen years, when the profession ol architecture having been selected by him, he stud- ied that art in the ofifice of Clarence B. Cutler oi Troy, New York. Mr, Hunt worked in the of- fice of Mr. Cutler in Troy from 1879 until 1887, and in the office of Mr. Cut- ler in New York until 1889, in which year he removed to Los Angeles. On arriving in Los Angeles Mr. Hunt was employed in the firm oi Calkins & Haas in that city from 1889 to 1892; by that time his person- ality had been recognized to such an extent in tha class of designs he had been turning out that he felt empowered to enter business for himself, and so occupied himself, with a sucecss, until 1895, when, with Theodore A. Eisen, he formed a partnership under the firm name of Eisen & Hunt, which con- tinued until 1899. In 1899 he went into partnership with A, W. Eager, under the title of Hunt & Eager, which extended until 1908, when the firm was altered to read Hunt, Eager & Burns, and in 1910 Mr. Eager retired and the firm has since been termed Hunt & Burns. Owing to his long residence in Los Angeles, and his arriving there properly equipped, technically and artistically, it is within bounds to say that probably no one architect has had a greater domination over the creation of a type of elegance and of ap- propriateness and residences and club houses than that established by Sumner P. Hunt. A vast number of those who have resideo in Los Angeles for any great length of time, SUMNER P. HUNT high degree of and who have erected houses notable for beauty, have employed Mr. Hunt to prepare the plans and execute the work. In such varying examples of architectural arts as the notable home of the Los Angeles Country Club, the most complete edifice ol the kind in the country; the Annandale Coun- try Club and the Ebell Club House at Fig- ueroa and Eighteenth street, the efifectiveness and impressiveness of Mr. Hunt's work can be stud- ied to advantage, when it will be seen how perma- nently he has marked his talent on the region where he has practised. Other examples of his capacity for adaptation ol plan to environment are the beautiful home of the Casa de Rosas, the pri- vate school building at Adams and Hoovei streets; the home of Mr. J. F. Francis, at Ninth and Bonnie Brae streets, the homes of Mr. W. G. Kerckhofif and Mrs. Ross Clark, on Adams street, the homes of Mr. William Lacy and Mr. H. W. O'Melveny, on Wilshire boulevard, and the resi- dence of Mr. T. L. Duque, at New Hampshire ana Seventh streets. And in another direction of art, besides the buildings earlier mentioned, the buildings of the Los Angeles play grounds show the happy versatility and comprehen- sion that have won for Mr. Hunt a most sat- isfactory degree of success and a recognition of his purely artistic capacity as well as the practical side of his profession. Mr. Hunt is one of the class of social up- lifters who believe in starting with the child as a working basis for future citizenship, and in laying out the playgrounds he has had in mind not only artistic effect, but plans for teaching the children how to play and at the same time to grow strong. Mr. Hunt has been elected a member of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects; of the Engineers and Archi- tects' Association of Southern California; of the California Club; of the Los Angeles Country Club, the Crags Country Club and the Sunset Club. NOTABLES OF THE. SOUTHWEST 83 ENMAN, WILLIAM, Attor- ney and Publicist, San Fran- cisco, California, was born in San Francisco in 1872, the ^1 son of James Denman and Helen V. (Jordan) Denman. His father was principal of the first school in San Francisco under the State system and retired fifty-one years later as the president of the Board of Education. He is thor- oughly American, h i s first American ancestor having arrived in 163 L He was married in San Francisco, April 4, 1905, to Leslie Van Ness, daughter of the well- known lawyer Thomas C. Van Ness. From 1881 to 1885 Mr. Denman attended the Clement Grammar School ; from 1885 to 1886 the old Lincoln Gram- mar, and was graduated from Lowell High in 1889. Prior to entering the University of Califor- nia in 1890, he punched cattle in Nevada for a year, an experience that stood him in good stead years later at the time of the great fire in San Francisco, when he im- pressed over a hundred teams, sometimes at the point of the pistol, and had food supplies moving from the transport dock through the cinders to the refugee camps while the city was yet burning. After his graduation from the Univer- sity, in 1894, he took one year in the Hastings College of the Law, then en- tered the Harvard Law School and was graduated therefrom in 1897 with the degree of LL. B. Although taking an active part in both athletic and military life at the Univer- sity, he became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, the honor society. Returning to California, he was admitted to the State Bar in 1898, and immediately began active prac- tice. Mr. Denman's professional experience has been of a widely diversified nature, both in the Federal and in the State courts, and marked by a number of important cases, especially in maritime law. The litigation growing out of the sinking of the Rio de Ja- neiro, the explosion of the Progreso, the col- lision of the Columbia and San Pedro, as well as other causes he argued in the Admiralty courts, aroused interest both in the profes- sion and in the community at large. From 1902 to 1906 Mr. Denman was lecturer and assistant professor of law in the Hastings College and the University of California. In 1911 he formed a partnership with George Stanley Arnold under the name of Denman & Ar- nold, the firm conducting a general practice, with offices in the Merchants' Exchange building in San Francisco. He became a member of the non-parti- san party when yet in col- lege. His faith in the ultimate removal of the national parties from mu- nicipal elections was jus- tified nearly twenty years later by the acceptance by San Francisco of the charter amendment drafted by him prohibit- ing party nominations and party designations on the ballot. In 1908 the Mayor ap- pointed him chairman of a committee of public cit- izens to report on the causes of municipal cor- Francisco, and as chairman report subsequently known Mr. Denman has also been the work of the Bar As- organized the State-wide movement for the non-partisan election of judges. He campaigned, however, in opposi- tion to the recall of judges at popular elec- tions, advocating simplified procedure before the Legislature. He defended the constitu- tionality of the eight-hour law for women, his opposition to the attempt by the Ameri- can Protective Association to inject re- ligion into politics, his drafting of the major- ity election law now in force in San Fran- cisco and his organization of the campaign for its passage. He is a member of the University, the Pa- cific-Union, the Unitarian, the Common- wealth and the Sierra clubs, as well as the Bar Association. WILLIAM DENMAN ruption in San he drafted the by his name. very active in sociation and 84 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ILLER, JOHN BARNES, president of the Southern California Edison Company, Los Angeles, California, ■was bom at Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, October 23, 1869. He is the son of John Edgar Miller and Sarah Amelia (Barnes) Miller. His an- cestors were of that group of religious refugees from Germany — Mennonites— who settled in Penn- sylvania on the invitation of William Penn. He mar- ried Carrie Borden Johnson of Yonkers, N. Y., on April 17, 1895. There are five chil- dren: Philadelphia Borden, John Borden, Edgar Gail, Morris Barnes and Carrie St. Clair Miller. Mr. Miller attended public and private schools at Port Huron, Michigan, and gradu- ated from the Ann Arbor School in 1888. He took a special literary course in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1888-89, and left college owing to the physical collapse of his father. The next two years he managed the personal inter- ests of his father and studied law in an office at Port Huron. He planned to take the bar examinations, but in 1892 became interested in a plantation near Delhi, Rich- mond Parish, Louisiana, and managed it for about two years. Mr. Miller then returned to Michigan, where his father was again actively engaged in business. They became interested in the steamboat and fuel business, to which he de- voted about three years. In 1896 he disposed of his Eastern interests and moved to Los Angeles. After surveying the invest- ment field for a considerable length of time, Mr. Miller was struck with the wonderful opportuni- ties for development in electric lighting and the utilization of water power for long transmission, a method then little known. When he undertook the development of electric light and power the coun- try around Los Angeles was dotted with numerous little plants, none of which was large enough to at- tract capital, and consequently not in a position to expand or to render the best service. By amalgamating a number of these small- er companies — with consequent economies — mod- ernizing plants and methods, and a highly organ- ized management, and by obtaining extensive water power control, Mr. Miller and his associates laid the foundation of what today is one of the most F^P ^^H W!!9^^B^* ^^^^1 K^ ^l^^l HH *^9h \ ^I^^M l^Hl „^ fW^^UJb ^I^^H Ih^'^^^^^I HP v^^^^H B ft ^M m ^H E^ ^JI^^^'^^^^B H r^i i^H JOHN a. MILLER. important public utilities in the West. The organi- zation of this company by Mr. Miller marked the beginning of electrical advancement in Southern California and the birth of an industry that has grown steadily. Mr. Miller was elected president of the Edison Electric Company in 1901, and through various changes in the form of that corporation has been the directing spirit. When the company was re- organized several years ago under the name of the Southern California Edison Co. he continued as its execu- tive head, and still retains that position. It Is not stretching a point to say that Mr. Miller has been a domi- nating personality in the growth of the company, but his success in the upbuilding of it is due to his finan- cial rather than to any tech- nical ability. He was one of the found- ers of the old Southwestern National Bank, later consoli- dated with the First Nation- al Bank, and of the Los An- geles Trust Company, now the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, in the former of which organizations he remains as director. In ad- dition to those two, and the office of president of the Southern California Edison Company, Mr. Miller is a di- rector and member of the ex- ecutive committee of the Pa- cific Mutual Life Insurance Company, president of the Union Power Company, director of the Sinaloa Land and Water Company, director of the Santa Barbara Gas and Electric Company and a director of the Long Beach Con- solidated Gas Company. The Pacific Mutual is one of the leading life in- surance companies on the Pacific Coast, and the other concerns mentioned, such as water, gas and power, are important public utilities in their re- spective localities, ably managed and modern in every detail. In all of these the progressive poli- cies of Mr. Miller go far toward shaping their courses and expansion. His clubs are: California, Jonathan, Los An- geles Country and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs, Country, Overland Clubs of Pasadena, Santa Bar- bara Country Club, University Club of Redlands, Pacific Union and Bohemian Clubs of San Francisco and the Automobile Club of America of New York. He belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Com- mandery and Shrine of Masonry. He was a mem- ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon College Fraternity. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 85 A LEXANDER, GEORGE, Mayor of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born near Glas- gow, Scotland, September 21, 1839, the son of William Alexander and Mary (Cleland) Alexander. The family came to America in 1850, first settling in Chicago, Illinois. There they lived for about five years, and early in 1856 journeyed to Iowa, where the elder Alexander pur- chased a large acreage of government land and be- gan work as an agricul- turist. Mr. Alexander married Annie Yeiser in Iowa in April, 1862, and to them were born three children, two of whom, Lydia A. and Frank A. Alexander, are still liv- ing. The son is a promi- nent merchant of Red- lands, California. Mr. Alexander's educa- tional opportunities were extremely limited and he began life as a newsboy in Chicago at the age of twelve years. This occu- pation held him until the family went to Iowa, and then he became a farmer, helping his father with his crops. He remained on the farm until about the time of his marriage, and four months after his wedding he vol- unteered for service in the Civil War, enlist- ing in the Union Army. He served in numerous battles and re- mained under arms until the conclusion of the War, in 1865. He was with General Grant's army in the campaign around Vicks- burg and was under General Banks in the Red River campaign.. His regiment was then transferred to the East and placed in General Sheridan's command, serving throughout the Shenandoah Valley cam- paign. Mr. Alexander was a witness of Sheridan's famous ride from Winchester to Cedar Creek. When he was mustered out of service Mr. Alexander had to start life over again, and his first position was in a grain ware- house, where he received wages of $40 per month. He stayed with the firm for five years and during that time became an expert GEORGE ALEXANDER in the grain business, drawing a salary of $100, when he quit to go into the grain ware- house business for himself. In 1874 he went to Toledo, Iowa, establishing a business there, and a year later took up a similar enterprise at Dysart, Iowa. In 1886, when he had four large warehouses and a great shipping business under his control, he and his wife visited California and he decided to make his future home there. Returning to Iowa, he sold out his interests and went to Los Angeles. He spent some time looking over the business field and finally built a feed mill. This he con- ducted approximately two years, and then, in 1890, entered the political field. His first public office was that of Inspector in the City Street Depart- ment, under E.H.Hutch- inson. His ability won him rapid promotion, and in 1893 he was made Chief Deputy. Two years in this position and he entered the County Re- corder's office as a clerk, but by the time he left that office, in 1898, he was Chief Deputy Re- corder. In 1899 he re- turned to the Street Dept., and remained there until elected to the Board of County Supervisors, in January, 1901, a position he held eight years. During that time he made a record for honest service and protection of the people's interests. He won a great fight in 1902, against the majority of the Board of County Hospital contracts. He carried the matter sucecssfully through the courts. He made another notable battle when he took a stand, advocated b}^ the Los Angeles Exami- ner, against the award by private bid of $3,500,000 for building County good roads. In 1909 he was chosen Mayor of Los An- geles when the people had recalled the for- mer Mayor from office. At the regular elec- tion the following fall he was retained in that office and has filled it down to date. He is a Mason, K. T., member G. A. R., Municipal League, City Club, Chamber of Commerce, Moose Lodge and Union League of L. A. 86 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OULE, WILLIAM EDMUND, Oil Well Development, Los Angeles, California, was born at Pontiac, Michigan, August 21, 1847, the son of British parents, his father, William Youle, having been a na- tive" of England, while his mother, Mary Youle, was a native of Ireland. He married Mary Murphy, January 18, 1870, at Pontiac, and to them there were born two children, Charles and May Youle. Mr. Youle attended the public schools of his native city until he was fifteen years of age, but at that time left his books and sought a place for himself in the business world. A year later he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, then In a greatly undeveloped condition, and it was there he found the proper place for his talents. Although he was only a boy he engaged boldly in the oil business, and he was one of the first men to develop and refine the crude petro- leum after it was pumped from the wells. At the time he began operations the uses of oil were hardly known or appreciated, and he was one of the men who had much to do with educating the public up to the use of what in later days has become one of the prime necessities of life and industry. He started in as a driller and contractor in the year 1863, and for the next thirteen years he was one of the most active, most progressive men in the Pennsylvania fields. He also worked in the West Virginia oil regions and aided there, as he had in Pennsylvania, in the development of the business. He was al- ways among the front rank of the petroleum hunters and led in the search for new territory. During those years he won the reputation of being one of the most practical and competent men in the business, because he had made it a study and knew it from every angle. He was an expert driller and executive, in fact was capable of handling the product from the selection of land to the marketing of it. He drilled hundreds of wells during his work in the Pennsylvania and West Virginia fields, and his fame was one of the features of the stories which reached the outside world of the wonderful treasure that had been found in the Keystone State. As has been told many times before, the days of the oil boom in Pennsylvania, when the petro- leum beds were first discovered and tapped, were among the most exciting In the industrial history of the United States. Men made fortunes and threw them away, because there were others to be made when the first was gone. Others, however, kept their wits about them and confined themselves to business. The Rocke- fellers, the Teagles, the Tillotsons, the McDon- alds and Mr. Youle were among this latter class, and they are the men who nursed the oil Industry through its infancy, led it through its formative stages and finally brought it up to the point where it is one of the greatest factors in the progress of the world In modern times. At one point of his career in the Pennsylvania region Mr. Youle was superinten- dent and general manager of the United Oil Company, at Oil City, and under his di- rection the property of the company was made a highly successful proposition. His efforts in connection with the development of this, along with his other work, attracted attention all over the country, and as a result when a company of noted Californians wanted someone to inaugurate the oil business in that State, Mr. Youle was engaged to do it. This was in the year 1877, when he was engaged by ex-Mayor Bryant, of San Francisco, and D. G. Schofield to bring a drilling outfit and men to Cali- fornia. He took his men to a point near Newhall, Cali- fornia, and there put down the first producing oil well in the Golden State. This well proved a pro- ducer from the very start and it was the begin- ning of an era of development in California that has meant fortunes for the men engaged in it and provided the State with a new claim to industrial prominence. After proving the Newhall field by drilling a number of productive wells, Mr. Youle, in the year 18S4, moved to the Puente oil region and there repeated the successes that had attended most of his drilling operations in the past. Six years after he put down his first well in the Puente district attention was called to seep- ages in that part of Kern County now known as the Sunset fields, and Mr. Youle went thei-e as a contracting well driller. He remained in that territory from 1S90 to YOULE NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST ^7 1901, and during those eleven years he put down more than fifty wells, scattered in the Sunset, Midway and the McKittrlck fields. The development of the industry in these re- gions caused the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- pany to huild a branch road to the McKittrlck oil fields, and later to the Sunset. With the introduction of the railroad into the new oil country the business took on new strength, and Mr. Youle may be called the basic factor in Its success. Since those early days the oil business of Cali- fornia has become a great big thriving part of the State's life, and many men have made tre- mendous fortunes out of it. Mr. Youle may be justly called the pioneer, because he was the first man to demonstrate the practicability of oil wells In the State. College professors and noted geologists who had been consulted in the matter by prospective investors declared that there was no petroleum to be found in the State, but Mr. Youle and his asso- ciates went out and demonstrated in the best kind of a way — by drilling — that it was there, and as a result thousands of wells are now pumping in various parts of the State, millions of dollars are invested, and the California fields are known among the richest arid most productive in the world. Mr. Youle was not only a practical driller, but he was a discoverer as well, and after being the first to find that drilling was practicable, he led in the opening up and promotion of new terri- tory. He is an expert in the matter of oil lands, and many times he pointed the way to beds that others had never dreamed existed. He it was who invented an appliance which made deep wells feasible, and much of the credit for finding oil at extreme depths, after the higher levels had failed to produce, is due to him. He is a modest man, however, and does not claim this credit, but facts speak for themselves, and thereby is a man's value to his country indicated. Mr. Youle's efforts in the discovery and pro- duction of oil were not without difficulties other than those presented by nature herself, for many times his experience was matched against the theories of others, and he developed many oil properties against the opposition of other persons less experienced than he. Oftentimes he was condemned for persisting in sinking his drill hundreds of feet below what was then considered the oil level, his critics declar- ing that it was impossible to drill to such great depths. He persisted, however, and when he finally struck oil at the lower levels his suppositions were verified. In all his work Mr. Youle has been guided by one thing — a firm conviction that California was full of oil, this conviction being based on his many years of work in the various fields of the United States, and he has succeeded many times in strik- ing oil where others less stout-hearted and capable had failed. During his career in California, which has spanned almost forty years, Mr. Youle has super- vised the drilling of one hundred and seventy-two wells and today he is known as the father of the Industry. In addition to his actual work in the fields, Mr. Youle has been an important factor in the develop- ment of uses for the product. He handled the first carload of oil that was used for fuel purposes by the Lankershim Flour Mills, of Los Angeles. This was one of the very first instances of the use of oil for fuel, and today the practice has be- come general in railroads, steamships and indus- trial plants, besides being largely used for domestic purposes. As is well known, the use of oil as fuel was de- layed for a long time because it was not thought that enough could be produced to make it worth while for the large corporations to install oil burn- ing engines in place of the variety used for coal consumption. The rapid development of the California fields, however, and the production of oil in such tremen- dous quantities, swept away this opposition, and, naturally, Mr. Youle was one of the most important men in the inauguratfion of this modem method of producing power. His work is well known to the oil men of the world, however, and a complete story of his accom- plishments, with their resultant good for commerce and comfort, would fill a volume. He is honored as the dean of the oil men in California and his advice is sought ever and anon by men desiring to engage in the business. His judgment on these matters is accepted as final and through hini many thousands of dollars have been safely invested, adding to the development of the State, while at the same time many other thou- sands have been saved to the owners who other- wise might have invested in losing propositions. Because of numerous instances of this nature he has come to be recognized as one of the greatest petroleum and oil land authorities in the United States and many men who have made fortunes in that line of endeavor have him to thank for it. Despite his long service, Mr. Youle is still in harness and takes an active part in the various enterprises in which he is interested. He is president of the Andrews Oil Company at the present time and gives to It the value of his many years' experience. He is a strong, vigorous, well preserved man and devotes a tremendous amount of energy to his business. Mr. Youle is not a clubman, but gives all of his spare time to the quiet enjoyment of his home and family. 88 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY W. J. HUNSAKER UNSAKER, WILLIAM JEFFER- SON, lawyer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born September 21, 1855, in Contra Costa County, Cal., the son of Nicholas Hunsaker and Lois E. (Hastings) Hunsaker. Lansing Warren Hastings, his maternal grand uncle, was a member of the First Constitutional Convention of California. Mr. Hunsaker married Florence Vir- ginia McFarland February 26, 1879, at San Diego, Cal. There are four children — Mary Cameron, Florence King, Rose Margaret and Daniel McFar- land Hunsaker. He attended the public schools of Contra Costa County and San Diego up to the age of 16, when he left to learn the printer's trade. He began as a printer's devil on the "Bulletin" in San Diego, worked as a journeyman printer on the "Bulletin" and the San Diego "World" for two years and a half, then took up the study of law in the office of A. C. Baker, afterwards Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of Arizona. He was admitted to the bar by the District Court of San Diego County, 1876, and by the California Supreme Court in 1882; prac- ticed at San Diego, 1876 to 1880, when he located at Tombstone, Ariz., remaining there one year. He then returned to San Diego and in 1882 was elected District Attorney for the county. He served until 1884, when he resumed private prac- tice. In 1886 he formed a partnership with E. W. Britt as Hunsaker and Britt. In 1892 Mr. Hunsaker moved to Los Angeles and has since resided and practiced his profession there. In 1900 he and Mr. Britt resumed their partnership relations, which still continue. Mr. Hunsaker has figured in many notable cases, among others the Robert Crawford Smith and Dalter will contests and the Tingley and Hearne libel cases. He is a member of the Am. Bar Ass'n, Cal. State Bar Ass'n, University, Jona- than and California Clubs. WILLIAM BAYLY pAYLY, WILLIAM, mining, Los An- / geles, California, is a native of p Missouri, having been born at Lex- ington, that State, in the year 1856. He Is the son of Charles B. Bayley and Matilda (Russell) Bay- ly. He married Eva Houghton at Del Norte, Colo- rado, in the year of 1876, and to them there have been born two children — William Bayly, Jr., and Charles H. Bayly. Mr. Bayly Is one of those successful American business men who did not have opportunity or time to devote to his education before going out into the world to start his life career. His family having moved from Lexington to St. Louis, Mis- souri, when he was a child, he attended the public schools of the latter city in the Civil War period. At the age of 16 years he gave up his studies and decided to seek his fortune in the West. He went to Colorado and engaged in the hardware business with Alva Adams, a pioneer of Colorado, who after- wards became Governor and is today one of the richest men in the Silver State and one of those who have done much to develop that common- wealth. Between them the two young merchants built up a thriving business. Mr. Bayly remained in this business tor twenty years, during which time he made a considerable fortune. After two decades in the one line, he en- gaged in the mining business and has been in it ever since. He has mined on an extensive scale in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California, and to- day is one of the conspicuous men in the busness. He left Denver In 1895 and went to Los Angeles to establish his home. Since becoming a citizen of the Southern California metropolis he has aided in every movement for the development of the city and Southern California. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 89 LEY, ADO'LFO, Banker, Her- mosillo, Sonora, Mexico, was born at Gnesen, Prussia, Ger- ^ _^^ many. May 24, 1864, the de- ^-'^ ^^^'n^ ^ scendant of families that have long been prominent in the business and financial affairs of the great Prussian German state. His father was Boas Bley and his mother Bertha Seldner, daughter of a mer- chant. He married Man- uela Rivera, a beautiful Mexican girl, at Guay- mas, Mexico, November 19, 1893. He was a pupil in the public schools of his na- tive city until he was nine years old and then was placed in the Gnesener Gymnasium, a high school, in which the body as well as the brain of the boy was trained. There the boys were taught gymnastics and physical culture, and the value of this feature of his educa- tion is shown in the physique of Mr. Bley, who, at the age of forty- eight, is a man of won- derful strength and en- durance. Mr. Bley re- mained at the gymna- sium for seven years, studying Latin and Greek the last three years of his course, but in 1880 left school to go into business life. His uncle, a member of the firm of Seld- ner and Von Borstel, had gone to Mexico many years previously and his firm was one of the leading business houses of Guaymas, when young Blev started in first as a book- keeper and remained in that position for seven years, during which time he became thoroughly conversant with the business. In 1887, he was made representative of the firm and continued in that capacit}' until 1890, when, his exceptional abilit}' having done much for the progress of the firm, he was taken in as a partner. He held his interest for more than two years, then withdrew to go into business for himself. In 1893, he organized the Bley Hermanos, with his brother Simon, for the conduct of a general merchandise business. They located in Hermosillo and the business was a suc- ADOLFO BLEY cess from the start. They have added to it continually each year and today they are among the largest importers in the entire republic of Mexico. Mr. Bley's administra- tion of his own business won him a position among the leaders of the commercial world in the State of Sonora and he came within a very short time to be regarded as one of the state's principal citizens. In 1897, with a splendid record and credit to back him, Mr. Bley associated himself with other enterprising men there and they founded the Banco de Sonora of Hermosillo, now one of the most stable financial institutions in the coun- try. Mr. Bley was elect- ed a director of the new institution and there, as in his first position in life, his ability as an executive was recognized and with- in a short time he was made president of the bank, an office he now holds. In the year 1904, Mr. Bley, in company with a number of others, organ- ized the Compania Indus- trial del Pacifico, with a capital of $1,000,000. A large factory was built near Hermosillo, and now is one of the most important industries in the state of Sonora. In 1910, he with two prominent Sonora men, obtained another banking concession from the Mexican government and they es- tablished the Mortgage and Farmers Bank, an enterprise capitalized at $2,000,000. The bank began operations in March, 1911, and in six months was a success. Its stockhold- ers are, in the majority, the same as those in the Banco de Sonora. The Banco de So- nora has a capital of $1,500,000, and a surplus of $1,200,000. For the last ten years it has paid dividends of sixteen per cent on its stock. ]\Ir. Bley is Mce President of the Com- pania Na^•iera del Pacifico, a steamship line operating between Mexican, South American and United States ports. He has been Presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Hermo- sillo, Mexico, for seven years. Mr. Bley speaks Spanish like a native, German, English and French. go PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OORE, DR. MELVIN L., I ^^^ I Physician and Surgeon, Los |"» ■■5 Angeles, California, was born at South Bend, Indiana, De- cember 20, 1859. He is the son of Dr. Robert Melvin Moore and Maria (Asire) Moore. He married Elizabeth Hol- ler, at South Bend, Indiana, in 1879. They have two children. Dr. Edward Clarence Moore and Lillian, now Mrs. Le Roy Edwards. Dr. Moore's male an- cestors were all identified with the medical profes- sion since about the time of the Declaration of In- dependence. His father was the first graduate physician in the State of Ohio and practiced in South Bend and vicinity for more than a score of years, being one of the most highly respected men in the community. Dr. Melvin Moore is one of the most thorough men in the profession to- day. He received his early education in the public schools of South Bend, and upon the con- clusion of this work en- tered Valparaiso Univer- sity, at Valparaiso, Ind., where he finished his aca- demic studies in 1878. Leaving his native state that year, he went to Rush Medical College, at Chicago, 111., where he began the study of medicine. He spent three years there and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1880. Although he was a qualified physician, and could have started in practice at once, Dr. Moore decided that he would study fur- ther in order to better equip himself for his professional career. Accordingly he went to New York and entered Bellevue College. He spent two years there, applying himself prin- cipally to surgery, and in 1882, after two years in the institution, he was given another degree of medicine. After practicing a num- ber of years, Dr. Moore went abroad to study the methods and hospitals of the Old World. He first went to Berlin, where he took post- graduate work under the tutelage of some of Germany's greatest surgeons, and after a con- siderable period there went to Vienna to DR. M. L. MOORE study under the great specialists of that city. He was highly regarded by his mentors there and was given numerous opportunities to im- prove his knowledge of the subject he desired to master. Dr. Moore began practice at South Bend, Ind., where he followed in his father's foot- steps for five years. His health failed him, and in 1887 he left that state and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he has been identi- fied in a professional and social way for over tv/.°n- ty-four years. He returned to In- diana for a brief interval and then spent a winter in Central Florida. After that short period in the health resorts of Florida he moved permanently to Southern California. He formed a partner- ship with Dr. F. T. Bick- nell, of Los Angeles, and they were associated for sixteen years. Both part- ners earned lasting repu- tations. Dr. Moore at an early period began the study of gynecology and obstet- rics. His proficiency and ability in those subjects gave him an authorita- tive standing in that branch of the profession and in 1892 he was appointed Professor of Obstetrics at the Medical College of the Uni- versity of California, located at Berkeley. That professorship he has retained for nine- teen years. He is most highly respected in profes- sional and social circles of California and has played a prominent part in the upbuilding of the medical profession of Southern Califor- nia and the entire West. Dr. Moore holds membership in the lead- ing professional societies of the country, such as the American Medical Association, 'Los Angeles County Medical Society, District Medical Society of Southern California, Pathological Society of Los Angeles, and the Medical Society of the State of Cali- fornia. He is an Elk and a member of both the University Club and the California Club of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 91 OORE, DR. EDWARD CLARENCE, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born January 20, 1882, at South Bend, Indiana, the son of Dr. Melvin L. Moore and Eliza- beth (Holler) Moore. He married Helen Rowland at Los Angeles, April 18, 1906, and to them have been born two children, Wil- liam Rowland and Helen Elizabeth Moore. Dr. Moore is the youngest of a line of phy- sicians noted in America for more than a hundred years, and known partic- ularly in Indiana and in California as men of high scholarly attain- ments. His grandfather. Dr. Robert Moore, was the first graduate physi- cian of the State of In- diana and his father is one of the most prominent physicians in the West. Dr. Moore was taken to Los Angeles by his parents when he was three years of age and has spent his life there since that time. He attended the public schools of Los Angeles in his boyhood and upon completion of his high school work went back to his native State, where he studied for one year at Notre Dame University, the famous Hoosier State edu- cational institution. This was the year 1897. The next year he returned to school at Los Angeles, entering the Belmont Preparatory School to fit himself for an admission to the University of California. He was at the preparatory school for two years. He determined to follow in the footsteps of his father and early ancestors, and in 1900 he was admitted to the medical depart- ment of the University of California. This necessitated four years of study, at the end of which period he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in June, 1904. Dr. Moore's father at that time, as now, was a leader in the profession in Los An- geles, and as he has studied extensively in the laboratories and hospitals in Europe in fitting himself for his practice, he was ena- bled to give of his great knowledge and ex- DR. E. C. MOORE perience to his son. The latter, immediately upon passing the State examinations, went into partnership with his father. His pro- fessional life, from the day of starting, was a most active one and for three years he worked with his father, devoting himself principally to surgery. In 1907 there came a period when he felt he could quit his practice for additional study. He went to Rochester, Minnesota, where he be- came clinical assistant to the celebrated brother surgeons, Drs. Mayo, whose famous sanitarium in the little northwestern town is one of the most famous institutions in the world of surgical science. People go to the Mayos from all parts of the world, and some of their feats in surgery have not only startled the medical profession, but have made history for it. To be an associate of these great surgeons is a privilege ac- corded to few men. Dr. Moore was with the Mayos for a year, during which time he aided them in the performance of many of their wonderful operations and gained an experience that is almost invaluable to him. Later, in 1911, he spent three months additional with the Drs. Mayo. Returning to Los Angeles in 1908, he re- sumed his practice with his father as chief surgeon of the firm of Drs. Moore, Moore & White, and at the present time handles noth- ing but surgical cases. Dr. Moore's expert work in the field of surgery placed him on the faculty of the Los Angeles Dept. of Medicine of the University of Cal., which position he has retained. He was made one of two surgeons to the L. A. Aqueduct Commission and is one of the at- tending surgeons to L. A. County Hospital. He is a Director of the California Hos- pital and is an active member of the Ameri- can Medical Association. He is also a mem- ber of the L. A. Clinical and Pathological So- ciety, L. A. County Medical Society, Cal. State Medical Society and others. He is a member of the California and the Los An- geles Countrv clubs. 92 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY education In the AWGOOD, HARRY, Civil and Hydraulic Engineer, Los Angeles, California, is a native of the British Empire, being born in Derbyshire, England, on April 28, 1853. He is the son of Wil- liam Hawgood and Sarah A. (Pike) Hawgood. He married Harriet E. McWain of Vermont in 1887 in Oregon. Mr. Hav/good received his schools of England. He at- tended the City of London School, one of the oldest in- stitutions of its nature in the British Empire, having been founded in 1442; it is closely identified with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. While attend- ing this school he was a fellow student of the man who is today at the head of British politics. Premier As- quith. Later he studied civil and mechanical engi- neering on municipal water works, and afterward in one of the largest shipbuilding yards on the River Thames. Shortly after finishing his studies in England he received in 1874 an appoint- ment which carried him into South Africa, where he was engaged in designing struc- tures for the Cape of Good Hope government railways, serving under a five years' rlAKKY ri contract. He became Assistant Resident Engineer in the Maintenance Department of the government railways in that region, where he fulfilled his con- tract to the day. He returned to England in 1879, and received commendatory letters from the Brit- ish Government officials, and in 1880 came to America and located at Madison, Wisconsin. Short- ly afterward he was made Assistant Engineer of Construction on the Madison and Milwaukee line of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and his rise in the engineering world was rapid. In 1881 he was made Locating Engineer, recon- noitering for extensions of the Utah Northern Rail- way, now the Oregon Short Line, in Idaho and Montana. He continued in this capacity for two years and laid out and constructed some of the most difficult pieces of railway construction known in that region. In 1884 he was Resident Engineer in charge of construction from Le Grande to Baker City, Oregon, on the Oregon Railway and Navigation System. A year later he resigned to follow private prac- tice in hydraulic and railroad engineering at Port- land, Oregon. He met with success and in a short time became Consulting Engineer for the Receiver of the Oregonian Railroad and the Chief Engineer of Construction on the Portland, Willamette Valley Railway. He was appointed by the Governor of Oregon as one of the commissioners to determine and fix the length of the navigable draw-span on the railroad bridge across the Willamette River. In May, 1888, after the purchase of the P. andW. V. Railway by the Southern Pacific System, Mr. Hawgood became Resident Engineer for that road and was lo- cated at Los Angeles in charge of the lines between that city and El Paso, Texas. He continued in that posi- tion up to 1894, when he re- signed to enter into practice as Consulting Engineer. When the San Pedro- Santa Monica Harbor contro- versy arose Mr. Hawgood took a prominent part In that matter, making a thorough study of the question. In 1896 he made the engineer- ing argument in favor of San Pedro before the Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, and later ar- gued the same question in Los Angeles before what was known as the Walker Harbor Board, a special board ap- pointed by the President of the United States to select the harbor site. He followed chiefly hy- draulics and power engineering up to 1900. At that time he accepted the position of Chief Engineer in the location and con- struction of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, notable among his structures being the large concrete viaduct over the Santa Ana River near Riverside. In 1904, his services with the railroad company being finished, he resumed practice as Consulting Engineer. Since locating in Los Angeles, in 1888, Mr. Haw- good has been engaged as a hydraulic consulting engineer by the City of Los Angeles and other mu- nicipalities. He has done excellent service for the Los Angeles City Water Company, the Kem River Company, the Pacific Light and Power Company and various others throughout the West. Mr. Hawgood has an international reputation. He holds memberships in the following: Institution of Civil Engineers, London; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Railway Engineering Association, and was formerly President of the En- gineers and Architects' Association of So. Cal. He is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. AWGOOD NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 93 OOTH, WILLIS H., Bank- ing and Real Estate, Los An- geles, California, was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, on February 15, 1874, the son of L. Booth and Ellen Ann (Bratt) Booth. He married Chancie Ferris, in Los Angeles, Jan- uary 21, 1899, and to them there has been born one child, Ferris H. Booth. Mr. Booth missed by five years be- coming a son of Califor- nia, for it was at that age that he was taken to Los Angeles, where he has grown up with the city, being educated in its pub- lic schools and the 'Uni- versity of California. His family owning the iirm of L. Booth & Sons, a large machinery house of Los Angeles, Mr. Booth, upon the comple- tion of his education, in 1895, entered at once in that business, being made treasurer of the firm. He held this office for ap- proximately thirteen years, becoming a com- mercial and a civic factor. In 1908 the Booth Com- pany was consolidated with the Smith Machin- ery Company, under the name of the Smith-Booth- Usher Company, at the present time one of the leaders in its line on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Booth was elected secretary of the new firm, a position he still retains. Two years prior to the merger of the machinery concerns, Mr. Booth aided in the organization of the Pacific Electric Heating •Company, a concern manufacturing electric heating appliances at Ontario, California, and he was elected vice president of it. This company has a large plant as its California base and in addition has branch factories in Chicago, New York, Vancouver, B. C, and Toronto, Canada. The whole put together make it one of the large modern electric in- dustries, with most promising prospects for the future. Although he devotes a great deal of his time to this corporation's affairs, Mr. Booth has other interests which claim his attention and into each of which he injects the spirit WILLIS H. BOOTH of progress. He was elected vice president of the Equitable Savings Bank, one of the large Los Angeles financial institutions, in 1908, and still occupies that office. He is also treasurer of the Booth Investment Com- pany, a Booth family corporation, with real estate and other holdings in and about the city. Mr. Booth has been one of the con- spicuous men in the growth and improve- ment of Los Angeles and has figured in practically every movement having for its object the improve- ment of the city and its establishment as a metro- politan municipality. He was elected presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce of Los An- geles in 1909, and during his administration numer- ous plans for the upbuild- ing of the city were origi- nated and carried to a successful issue. One work in which he was most active was the an- nexation of San Pedro to Los Angeles, a transfor- mation that made Los Angeles a deep water port and placed it in line for the commercial bene- fits that are sure to ac- crue to the entire Pacific Coast with the opening of the Panama Canal. Work of building a modern harbor is now in progress and Mr. Booth has been an ardent advocate of this at all times. He was president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast in 1910, and under his leadership a commer- cial delegation, made up of leading men in all the organizations in the association, toured the Orient in a study of conditions and to devise means for increasing American strength in that part of the world. He is Commander of Los Angeles Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, and holds membership in the leading clubs of his city, among them the Jonathan Club, Sunset Club, California Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. Mr. Booth has been an ardent supporter of higher education. He has recently been honored by being chosen a director of Occi- dental College. 94 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY W. L. HATHAWAY NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 95 ATHAWAY, WILLIAM LEB, San Mi Francisco, California, Manager for a California, Nevada and the Ha- " wailan Islands of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, was born in Providence, Rhode February 15, 1867, the son of William H. His pa- with its Island, Hathaway and Mary (Clancy) Hathaway, ternal origin is of the old Puritan stock, source in the Isle of Wight, while his maternal an- cestors were Irish and English landowners. Mr. Hathaway's paternal grandfather was prominent among the early settlers of Oregon, to which terri- tory he came from New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the late thirties; and he, together with his com- panions who first cast their lot in the Umpqua Val- ley, below Roseburg, became the progenitors of nearly every important family of Douglas County. On May 13, 1893, Mr. Hathaway was married at Colusa, California, to Miss Caro Paulson and they are the parents of two daughters, Marie Craig and Mabel Clancy Hathaway. William L. Hathaway's early boyhood was passed in Oregon, his father having been the first of Captain Hathaway's relatives to join him there, in 1868. He attended the public schools in Ashland, Oregon, and later, when his family moved to Cali- fornia, which State they had first reached a few days before the big earthquake of 1868, he con- tinued his schooling at Yreka, transferring thence to Colusa. After a two years' course in the night school of the Atkinson Business College at Sacra- mento, during which time he was employed by the firm of Waterhouse & Lester, wholesalers of wagon materials, he engaged in the real estate and broker- age business in the Puget Sound country, dealing largely in timber lands. Returning to California in 1892, he entered the employ of the Mutual Life In- surance Company of New York, through A. B. Forbes, at that time the company's chief represent- ative on the Coast. Since his entrance into the insurance world Mr. Hathaway's work has been closely connected with the agency end of the business. He early con- ceived the Idea of transforming the previously ex- isting methods to a system that has formed the basis of the present procedure. This consisted largely in eliminating the extravagant cost of get- ting business and in educating for insurance young men who were doing fairly well in other walks of life. He acted on the theory that a man capable of success in other activities could succeed in life insurance. Strong in this belief, he organized in the insurance world a new force, which has proved a benefit to the companies and to the agents alike. Naturally, his ideas and work attracted wide at- tention and led to an extension, which the company called upon him to achieve, throughout the United States. During the years that he was absent on this mission he visited every important city in America and Canada and traveled abroad as well. His absorbing ambition to become the head of the San Francisco office prompted him to reject many flattering offers of a choice of locations else- where and to return to that city, where, on January 1, 1906, he took charge of the local office. He was well on the way toward the development of the busi- ness when the great disaster befell. During those trying days Mr. Hathaway's en- thusiastic advocacy of a return of all the business houses to their old stands and his re-establishment of his own company in its own quarters, "almost before the pavements were cold," were potent influ- ences in encouraging others to follow his example. His company was not only the first to transact any business in the burnt financial district, but it is well known that the results of his trips to New York to divert some of those millions to the parched business channels of San Francisco are responsible for about $20,000,000 of real money contributed to the rebuilding of the city. The general recognition of his great work has helped him not only in his insurance business, but also in his connection with the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company, which, both in the early struggles, and later through his memberships of the Ways and Means, the Counties and other important committees, he has greatly aided in the quest for funds and by the force of example. His abundant energies are now focused on the idea he has conceived for a Panama-Pacific World's Insurance Congress in San Francisco in the year 1915. In this connection he has traveled much in the East, and his work for this great end has re- ceived the heartiest encouragement from the presi- dents of all the leading Insurance companies in America and in foreign countries. Mr. Hathaway, as chairman of the congress, whose membership includes the presidents of all the California insur- ance companies, and every prominent business man connected therewith in San Francisco, feels justly proud of the honor conferred upon him. But his greatest service for his city and state is to be found in his share of the honors of victory in the memorable fight for the Exposition. When the battle was waging in Washington this insurance association, under Mr. Hathaway's direction, who as chairman conducted the operations, did such heroic service that the papers of New Orleans gave as one of the three principal reasons why that city lost the fight the fact that all the big Eastern in- surance companies were lined up for San Francisco. He is prominent in the affairs of the National Association of Life Underwriters, the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco and the Home Indus- try League, and is a member of the Press Club and the Presidio Golf Club. He devotes much time and energy to all business organizations connected with the upbuilding of the city and State, and has con- tributed as a writer to insurance publications. 96 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY JAMES SLAUSON DANA R. WBLLBR LAUSON, JAMBS, Capitalist, Los Angeles, California, was born at Austin, Nevada, Oct. 7, 1865. His father was Jonathan Sayre Slau- son and his mother Sarah R. (Blum) Slauson. He moved to California when a child, settling in San Francisco In 1870, went to Los Angeles in 1874, where he has since resided. In 1880 he began his business career when he entered the Los Angeles County Bank, since dis- incorporated. He remained with this banking firm for five years. He accepted the secretaryship of the Azusa Land and Water Company in 1885. In 1890 he set out six hundred acres of orchard land, owned now by the Azusa Foothill Citrus Company, of which he is president, and from that time has been develop- ing agricultural undertakings in connection with his banking interests. Mr. Slauson has been identified with agricul- tural pursuits in Southern California for many years, and his work in dealing with big land or- ganizations and in promoting agricultural enter- prises has been uniformly successful. He Is ac- tively interested in a number of corporate organi- zations, among which are the following: Azusa Foothill Citrus Company, president; Azusa Agri- cultural Water Company, president; First National Bank, Azusa, director; Equitable Savings Bank, Los Angeles, director; Western Union Oil Com- pany, director; Sixth Agricultural Association, di- rector; Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, presi- dent. He is a director of the California Club, vice president of the Bolsa Chico Gun Club, active mem- ber Los Angeles Country Club, Annandale Country Club, University Club and Sunset Club, of which he was president in 1910. He is a director and treas- urer of the Los Angeles Symphony Association. BLLER, DANA REID, Attorney-at- Law, Los Angeles, California, was born in Oneoto, Superior County, Minnesota, March 24, 1874. His father was Levi W. Weller and his mother Cordelia (Woods) Weller. He married Jessica Rhodes in Los Angeles, Cal., October 14, 1897. To them was born a daughter, Katherine Weller. Mr. Weller was taken to Los Angeles when he was an infant. He received his education in the grammar schools of Los Angeles, Los Angeles High School, and finally in the Los Angeles Normal. Upon leaving school, Mr. Weller entered the of- fice of his present partner, John T. Jones, as a stenographer and student. This was in August, 1903. He read law for approximately two years, and in April, 1895, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of California. In 1899 he was admitted to practice before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in 1899. With his ad- mission to the bar Mr. Weller was taken into part- nership by Mr. Jones, and the firm has continued down to date under the title of Jones and Weller. In addition to his legal work, Mr. Weller is in- terested in various business organizations. Also he is a conspicuous figure in the military circles of Los Angeles. He served through the Spanish-Amer- ican war as Major of the Seventh California Infan- try, U. S. Volunteers, his service continuing from May to December, 1898; from Sept. 16, 1899, to June 30, 1901, he was captain of the Forty-fourth U. S. Infantry, U. S. Volunteers, the latter service being in the Philippines. Mr. Weller is a member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles, of which organization he was president in 1909; Chamber of Commerce, San Ga- briel Country Club, Los Angeles City Club, United Spanish War Veterans, Roosevelt Camp No. 9, and Grand Master of Masons in California in 1911. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 97 OYNER, FRANK HALL, Highway Engineer, Los An- geles, California, is a New Englander by birth, being born at North Egremont, Massachusetts, January 20, 1862. His father was Looniis M. Joyner and his mother Mary L. (Cross) Joyner. Mr. Joyner is a direct descendant of Joseph Loomis, who settled in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1639, and the original founder in America of the large Loomis family. He is also descended from Robert Joyner, one of the heroes of the Rev- olutionary War. On both sides Mr. Joyner is a pure Yankee. He mar- ried Clara Estelle Cur- tiss, October 4, 1888, at Brooklyn, New York. There is one child, Mary C. Joyner. Mr. Joyner attended a district school in North Egremont, Mass., and later the High School of Great Barrington, Mass. He studied at Carter's Commercial College, Pittsfield, Mass., and took a course at the Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, Amherst. The first actual work of his career began in 1881, when he became a chainman with the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad. His intelligent effort won him the advanced position of assistant engineer, which station he held for nearly three years. In 1885 he was made resident engineer for the Wisconsin Central Railroad, with headquarters at Des Plaines, Illinois. There he remained and practiced for the fol- lowing year. In the latter part of 1886 Mr. Joyner be- came engineer at the end of track and assist- ant superintendent of construction with the Fitzgerald and Mallory Company, and the D. M. and A., a branch of the Missouri Pacific system. Ho was continued in this position for a period of over a year. During all this time Mr. Joyner was not merely performing his duty, he was making a deep study all the while of the great engineering problems of the day and seeking that branch which held F. H. JOYNER the greatest promise for the future. In 1887 he left railroad engineering to take a responsible position with Morrison and Corthell, engineers in Chicago. He was given charge of the preparation of stone for the bridge over the Ohio River at Cairo and bridges over the Mississippi River at St. Louis and at Memphis. He had charge of the construction of a number of minor bridges in and around Chicago. He also filled the of- fice of City Engineer at Bedford, Indiana, where he continued until the latter part of 1891, when he resigned and at the same time resigned from the Morrison and Cor- thell Company. In 1892 he accepted a position with the Pejep- scot Paper Company, one of the largest establish- ments of its kind in the State of Maine. He be- came Assistant Engineer on the construction of dams and pulp mill plants for this company. Mr. Joyner took up highway engineering in 1896. His first services in that great field were with the Massachusetts Highway Commission. After two successful years he was advanced to Division Engineer in 1898, which position he held until February 1, 1911, when he resigned to accept the posi- tion of Engineer in charge of Maintenance and Repair of Main Highways of Los An- geles County. His fame as a highway engineer had be- come so well known throughout a greater part of the continent that during the early part of 1911 the Los Angeles County High- way Commission, finding themselves in need of a professional head, determined to send for him. He accepted their offer and went at once to Los Angeles and took up the duties of the position. He held the position until the following July, when he was appointed Chief Engi- neer for the Los Angeles County High- way Commission, which position he holds at the present time. 98 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY Mlug^ AMPTON, WILLIAM E., Manufac- Ki turer, Los Angeles, California, 3 was born in Illinois, August 18th, " 1852. His father was William Ed- ward Hampton and his mother Matilda M. (Eastin) Hampton. He was married to Prances Wilhoit, of Charleston, Illinois, in the private chapel of the Sisters of Prov- idence in Indianapolis, Indiana, by the Right Rever- end Francis Silas Chatard,D.D., Bishop of Vincennes. At the age of fifteen years he began his first work in the wholesale and retail gro- cery of Wright-Minton & Co., of Charleston, Illinois. After working in this estab- lishment for three years he became the traveling agent and cashier for the commis- sion house of C. P. Troy & Co,, of New York, remaining in this position until 1876. At this time he returned to Charleston, Illinois, and established the dry goods house of Ray & Hampton. In 1879 Mr. Hampton purchased the entire interest of his partner and continued in the dry goods business in his own name very successfully until 1886, when he retired and moved to the Pacific Coast, and after living a re- tired life and traveling for two years, moved to San Francisco. In 1890 he built a factory in San Francisco for the manufacture of patent non-shrinking wooden tanks, and this was the birth of an industry which he has built up until today it is the largest manufacturing concern of its kind in the world. He managed and conducted the original business for two years in the name of "W. B. Hampton" and then changed the name of the business to "Pacific Tank Co., W. E. Hampton, Proprietor," and continued the business under this name for eleven years, having estab- lished branches and agencies throughout the Pacific Coast States and then had the business in- corporated under the name of "Pacific Tank Com- pany," Mr. Hampton retaining the presidency and active management of the business. In 1898 Mr. Hampton decided to make his home in Los Angeles, moved his residence to this city and built a factory for the manufacture of his product. In 1904 he built another factory at Olym- pia, Washington, and when this was destroyed by fire in 1909, he built a factory in Portland, Oregon, giving him a chain of factories in San Francisco, WI'LLIAM E. HAMPTON ships his product to all parts of the world. In 1900 Mr. Hampton purchased the controlling in- terest of the California Redwood Pipe Company and organized as its successor the National Wood Pipe Company. A year later he branched out into the manufacturing and contracting business on a larger scale in Los Angeles, organizing the Pacific Coast Planing Mill Company, built a large factory and took the active management of this company. In 1906, the year of the great fire in San Fran- cisco, Mr. Hampton pur- chased the stock and busi- ness of the Mercantile Box Co. of that city, reorganized it and built the plant which he still owns and operates on Berry street in San Fran- cisco. In 1909 the business of the Pacific Tank Company and the National Wood Pipe Company was con- solidated under the cor- porate name of "Pacific Tank & Pipe Company," the com- bined business now being under Mr. Hampton's per- sonal management, and he is today President and General Manager of the manufactur- ing companies which he has established, Pacific Tank & Pipe Company, Pacific Coast Planing Mill Company, Na- tional Wood Pipe Company and Mercantile Box Com- pany, with offices and fac- tories in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore- gon. He also holds directorships in the following companies and organizations: Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, Olympia National Bank, Asso- ciated Jobbers of Los Angeles, Municipal League of Los Angeles, Columbus Club of Los Angeles, and is President of the Industrial Realty Company of Los Angeles. He holds a similar position with the Fac- tory Site Company, and is Vice President of the Tidings Publishing Company. At the present time he is a member of the Spe- cial Harbor Committee of the Chamber of Com- merce, which has in its hands the future of the Los Angeles Harbor. This committee is working in conjunction with the civic authorities on plans by which they hope to make it one of the most important ports to be engaged in world trade with the completion of the Panama Canal. Mr. Hampton is Past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus of Los Angeles, and is a mem- ber of the California, Jonathan, Newman, Colum- bus and Gamut Clubs of Los Angeles and of the Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, from which he Los Angeles Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 99 AYDEN, THOMAS ED- WARD, Lawyer and Educa- tor, San Francisco, California, was born in 1868, in Bleeker, New York, the son of Charles C. and Maria (Howells) Hayden. At the age of 12 he left the village school of Williamstown, New York, to become a clerk in the country store. At 13 he accepted a position as teacher of forty-five ungraded pupils in the winter school of the village. In the spring of 1882 he entered Pulaski Academy of Pulaski, New York, attending during the spring and fall terms and paying his expenses by teaching and working at other employments. He was graduateu from Pulaski Academy's classi- cal department in 1885, and for the next two years, 1886-87, was prin- cipal of the village school of Fine, New York. His next step was into Hamil- ton College, in 1887, where he became business manager of the Hamilton Literary Magazine, and during his vacations, until 1891, stimulated his prac- tical senses by learning the tanner's trade. In 1891 Mr. Hayden was still in Clinton, New York, where he or- ganized the Clinton High School, and until 1893 was the principal thereof. The years 1894 to 1900 find him again nomadic, a super- intendent at Waterville and a lecturer on lit- erary and political subjects at the summer schools and the Chautauqua in different parts of New York State. But while he was at Hamilton College he had been reading law and developing his taste for the profession. In addition to the degree of A. B., which he had taken in 1891, he was graduated in the following year with an A. AL, cum laude, from a special course in constitutional law. He went to California in 1900, completed his law studies at Stanford, 1901-03, and then opened an office in San Francisco as the head of the firm of Hayden, Alderman and Oakford. This partnership continued, with gratifying success, until shortly after the earthquake in 1906, when Mr. Alderman's departure for THOMAS E. HAYDEN Arizona left the local business in the hands of the two other members of the firm. In 1907 Mr. Oakford withdrew to accept a flattering offer elsewhere, and since then Mr. Hayden has practiced alone. He had not been established long in San Francisco before he became active in politics. This was evidenced chiefly by his candidacy for Congress, as a Democrat, from the Fifth Congressional District, and subsequently by his Assistant City Attorney- ship, under Percy V. Long, in 1908. In the fol- lowing year he became a member and President of the Board of Education. His legal work for the city is especially marked, both by his services as counsel of the Board of Education, acting under his appointment by May- or Taylor, and also as counsel for the city in the final settlement of the eastern boundary of the Presidio Reservation, which had been in dispute for about forty years. In the former capacity he was a leading spirit in the injunction proceedings against Mayor McCar- thy's appointees; again, in the mandamus pro- ceedings in the case of Bannerman vs. Boyd, against the Auditor, he succeeded in establishing before the Supreme Court a principal of charter interpretation differing widely from the rule believed to have been made in the Carter case, wherein it was held that the Mayor did not have to specify the cause for removal. Aside from his legal and educational work, Mr. Hayden has taken interest in oil and min- ing development and is interested financially in both fields. In college Mr. Hayden was the senior prize debater and chemist and was a Phi Beta Kappa man, a society that in every re- spect represents the best traditions and scholarship of college life. He is ex-presi- dent of the Iroquois Club, member of the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco Asso- ciation for the Study and Prevention of Tu- berculosis, San Francisco Settlement Asso- ciation and the People's Place. lOO PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY DR. JOHN R. HAYNES NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST lOI AYNES, DR. JOHN RAN- DOLPH, Physician, Los An- geles, California ; born Fair- mont Springs, Luzerne Coun- ty, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1853 ; Father, James Sydney Haynes ; mother, Elvira Mann (Koofis) Haynes. At the age of 21 he received the degrees of M. D. and Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Eight years later he married Miss Dora Fel- lows of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Owing to the ill health of members of his family he removed to Los Angeles in 1887, after thir- teen years' practice in Philadelphia. Here he engaged in the practice of medicine with his brother Francis, who attained great eminence as a surgeon, but whose brilliant career was in 1898 cut short by death. Dr. J. R. Haynes has served as a member of the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, with the exception of a few months' inter- val, from the date of its inception in 1903. In 1900 he organized The Direct Legislation League of California and has served as its president up to the present time. Dr. Haynes is referred to in the "Califor- nia Outlook" of September 9, 1911, by its editor, Mr. Charles D. Willard, in the follow- ing terms : "There is in Dr. John R. Haynes some of the material of which great law-makers are made, also something of the hero and martyr, also a bit of the prophet and seer, and a lot of the keen, vigorous man of affairs. It took all of that to accomplish what he has put to his credit in the State of Cali- fornia. He arrived in Los Angeles from Philadel- phia in 1887 and started right to work for direct legislation. It took ten years to make the people understand what it was, and then Ave years more to get it into the Los Angeles city charter. He did it; nobody can dispute the honor with him; and he was abused and insulted every inch of the way. For ten years and more he has been urging every State Legislature to let the- people vote on a "people's-rule" amendment. At last he won that fight. Incidentally, as mere side issues, it might be mentioned that he is one of the most eminent physicians of California, that he is one of the city's largest property holders, and that he is personally one of the most popular men in that part of the country." The foregoing gives some insight into the progressive, practical quality which domi- nates Dr. Haynes' efforts in behalf of all worthy movements calculated by him to be for the greatest good of the greatest number. He was the first to agitate the question of the adoption of the Initiative, Referendum and Recall provisions for the city of Los An- geles, and largely through his untiring energy they became, in 1903, a part of the city's charter. The incorporation of the "Re- call" was especialh- his individual work ; the first application of the principle, in fact, into the actual machinery of government. On this account he is known throughout the country as the "Father of the Recall." At the time of its adoption 'Los Angeles was the only com- munity in the world where a majority of the electors had at any time the power to dis- charge unsatisfactory officials. Since that date the Recall has been adopted by more than two hundred American cities and by three States. Immediately after the adoption of these Direct Legislation provisions by the city, Dr. Haynes set to work to secure the same measures for the State ; and after eight years of unremitting effort they were adopted in the election of October 10, 1911, by a ma- jority of 4 to 1. An instance of the practical value of the Initiative in government affairs occurred sev- eral years ago, when Dr. Haynes, by its use, compelled the street railways in Los Angeles to equip their cars with efficient fenders, re- sulting in an enormous saving of life. At that time the city of Los Angeles had the highest fatality rate from street car accidents of any city in the world. After correspondence with officials of seventy-four cities in Europe and America, he drew up a safety fender ordi- nance, which, by means of an initiative peti- tion, he forced through an unwilling street- railway-bossed Council, with the result that the superintendent of the company himself some time later voluntarily stated to Dr. Haynes that these fenders, put on as a result of the Initiative ordinance, he estimated to have saved in a comparatively short space of time the lives of two hundred people. Dr. Haynes is now endeavoring to reduce the rate of fatality in the coal mines of the United States, which is now five times as great as in Europe. After a personal inspec- tion of European mines and interviews with many experts there and at home, he is stren- uously advocating the establishment of an in- terstate mining commission empowered to prescribe safety regulations. He thinks coal mines still owned by the nation should not be sold, but retained by the Nation and operated either by the government or by leases safe- guarding the interest of the Nation and the lives of the miners. Dr. Haynes is a member of a large num- 1)er of societies and clubs, medical, philan- thropic, civic and social in character, and State, national and even international in the range of their activities. I02 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY REW, FRANCK C, Attorney (firm Metson, Drew cfe McKenzie), San Francisco, California, was born at San Jose, that State, May 31, 1861, the son of John R. Drew and Mary Francis (Dowling) Drew. He married Mrs. Helen P. White (formerly Miss Ramsay) in San Francisco, April 7, 1900. After a course through the Lincoln Primary and the Lincoln Grammar Schools of San Francisco, the latter of which he left in 1876, he took two years in the Boys' High School, but the desire, coupled with the necessity, of earning his liv- ing, prevented his gradua- tion. The real struggle be- gan there, and he showed the qualities that have char- acterized his subsequent progress. During this school- ing he was in the habit of rising at 2:30 a. m. to sell papers on the street and also to deliver them on his routes. In 1879, when he was 17 years old, he entered the pub- lishing house of Bacon & Co., where he became a book •and job printer and proof reader. But the progressive bee was already in his bon- net, so at night he studied shorthand to qualify as a stenographer. These efforts were rewarded a few years later, in 1883, by a position as amanuensis with Eppinger & Co., wheat operators. Here he remained until 1887, and then entered, in the same capacity, the House of Siegfried & Brandenstein, tea importers. Losing his position two years later, he went over to the San Francisco Call as compositor and proofreader, but after an- other two years became the stenographer in the law office of Patrick Reddy. This position he retained until 1894, in which year he was appointed stenographer to Governor James H. Budd. At the end of three months, how- ever, he returned to the office of Patrick Reddy, but retained his allegiance to the Governor, be- coming, in fact, his chief political adviser. From this point he was an active worker in the ranks of the Democratic party. Upon the appointment of Rhodes Borden ■ as Judge of the Superior Court, Mr. Drew was made official snorthand reporter in Department 11. He held the same position under Judge Lawlor and managed both his and Borden's political campaigns. After another course of night study, this time of the law, he was admitted, in 1903, to the bar and FRANCK C. DREW soon became a member of the firm of Campbell, Metson & Drew, which changed subsequently to the present title of Metson, Drew & McKenzie. By a curious turn of fate this firm was em- ployed, in 1905, to prosecute Mr. Drew's old em- ployer, Eppinger, who had been indicted on the charge of issuing false warehouse receipts. Senti- ment proving stronger than the lure of success and dollars, Mr. Drew refused to associate himself with the prosecution. Among other important cases with which his name is prominently linked may be mentioned that of the Peo- ple vs. Eugene Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco, and the People vs. Rankin, who was accused of hypothecat- ing some of the Ocean Shore bonds. In the latter of these Mr. Drew was the leading counsel for the defense and in the former associate counsel. Mr. Drew's marriage, in 1900, indirectly enlarged his field of activities. To pre- vent a strike, wherein much diplomacy was necessary, he became president and super- intendent of the L. E. White Lumber Company and spent two years in close study of the business, at the same time that he was preparing himself for admittance to the bar. Under his manage- ment the assets of the com- pany grew from half a rnil- lion to five million dollars, and incidentally made him a holder of many acres of sugar pine lands in the Southern part of the State. This foregoing industry, however, has appar- ently only stimulated Mr. Drew's desire to find recreation in his favorite hobbies, the study of French and Esperanto, in the former of which he is skillful and in the latter an expert. He has also found time to contribute articles and verses to the newspapers and to keep alive his interest in his clubs and societies, among which are the Bohemian, the Family and the Press clubs, the San Francisco Bar Association, Touring Club of France, Native Sons of the Golden West, the Eagles, the Redmen, the American Geographical Society, the Dolphin Swimming and Rowing Club, the American Esperanto Association, the French Society for the Development of Pho netics and the International Association of Es- peranto Jurists. He is an exempt member of San Francisco Typographical Union No. 21. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 103 RAKE, CHARLES RIVERS, capitalist, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born at Walnut Prairie, Clark County, Illinois, July 26, 1843. His father was Charles Drake and his mother before her marriage was Mahala Jane Jeter. His paternal line traces back to the gallant commander, Sir Francis Drake. Mr. Drake's wife was Mrs. Kate As- trea Seeley, whom he married in Tucson, Ari- zona, April 30, 1890; as issue of this marriage is Marguerite Rivers Drake. Mr. Drake has been twice married, his first wife having been Agripine Moreno, whom he mar- ried in Tucson, Arizona, in July of 1872. Of this union were born Jean G., William Lord, Albert Garfield, Elizabeth Jane and Pinita Rivers Drake. Mr. Drake had a pub- lic school education and at an early age began his conquest of fortune, which he soon achieved. He is a man whose name is synonymous with the upbuilding of the West, particularly of Arizona. Mr. Drake began his business life by qualify- ing as drug clerk, which occupation he filled until 1863, when he en- tered the United States Navy, volunteer ser- vice, beginning with the post of acting mas- ter's mate in the War of the Rebellion, 1863 to 1865. During his enlistment he served in the Mississippi Squadron under Admiral D. D. Porter. At the end of the war he re- signed and re-entered his former occupation in New York. Later he was made hospital steward in the United States Army service, and was assigned to duty under General Crook, then commanding the Department of Arizona, where in 1871 he was stationed at Fort Lowell, Tucson. In 1875 he retired to civil life and took up his residence at Tucson, where he was made Assistant Postmaster and Assistant United States Depositary un- til 1880. In 1881 he was elected County Re- corder of Pima County, and was again chosen for that office in 1883. During those years CHARLES R. DRAKE and real estate business throughout Arizona. While conducting his insurance and brok- erage business. Colonel Drake was appointed by President Harrison to the office of Re- ceiver of Public Moneys at the U. S. Land office in Tucson. During his residence of thirty years in Arizona he filled innumerable political positions, including two elections to the Territorial Senate and as president of that body. In 1893 Colonel Drake organized the famous firm in the Southwest of Nor- ton & Drake, associating himself with the late Major John H. Norton. This concern undertook labor contracts for the Southern Pacific Com- pany, and through that business and numerous other investments Colonel Drake amassed a reason- able fortune and moved to Eos Angeles in 1900 with the intention of living a retired life, but he saw so many opportunities for his talents that he found it hard to break away from his life training, and as a result has continued in active business life. His principal efforts since moving to Los An- geles have been along lines of development in and about Long Beach, the popular and sub- stantial beach city. Through his investments he has become one of the most vitally inter- ested mSn in the upbuilding of that city. Since locating in Los Angeles Colonel Drake has become president, general man- ager and director of the Seaside Water Com- pany, and occupies the same positions with the San Pedro Water Company, the Long Beach Bath House and Amusement Com- pany and the Seaside Investment Company, the corporation which owns and operates the great Virginia Hotel of Long Beach, which is undoubtedly the finest example of a beach hotel on the Pacific Coast. He is a member of the California Club, Los Angeles Country Qub, Chamber of Com- merce of Los Angeles, Chamber of Commerce of Long Beach, Hotel Virginia Country Club, Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fel- he conducted a general insurance, brokerage lows and Ancient Order of United Workmen. 104 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ANDREWS.HARRY, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, Las Angeles, California, was born in Chicago, Illinois, Au- gust 10, 1868, the son of Robert Kennedy An- drews and Mary (Black- man) Andrews. Mar- ried Laura Elizabeth Lyman May 23, 1906, at Los Angeles. He attended gram- mar and high schools at Marengo, Illinois, but did not graduate. He engaged in various lines of business as a young man and in 1897 became a city salesman for the National Biscuit Company in Des Moines, Iowa. After three years he accepted a position with H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, traveling for five years over Western Iowa territory. In 1905 made a visit to Los Angeles, California, and has been there since. Sold real estate for Barry Brothers for a year, then entered business for himself. Has continued down to date, making a specialty of high-class residence property in the Wilshire boulevard district. He has placed on the market a number of subdivisions. Member of the following organizations, located in Los Angeles: Municipal League, Federation Club, Auto Club of Southern California, Realty Board and California State Realty Federation; also Masonic bodies. CURRaN, ROBBRI GARNER, Printer and Publisher, Los Angeles, California, was bom at Jeffersonville, Indiana, June 18, 1870. Son of Robert E. Curran and Pauline (Garner) Cur- ran. Married Caroline A. Cook at Los Angeles February 24, 1897. Attended schools in Jeffersonville and Charlestown, Ind., and Sioux Rapids, la. Went to California in 1884, attended the high school of Ventura, Cal- ifornia. Started in the newspaper business at Santa Barbara, California, 1886; with Ventura Free Press in 1887. In 1888-89 worked on father's pa- pers at Nordhoff and Ventura. Went until 1894 to the University of Southern California, where he edited and published the college paper from his own plant. Formed a partnership, sold interest after three years; managed Press Clipping Bureau live years; organizer and first president Southwest Printers' Supply Company; sold Interest and trav- eled for a Chicago type foundry; organized Pacific Steam Economizer Company, 1903, and Keller Steam Economizer Company at St. Louis Exposi- tion; re-entered publishing and printing business, Los Angeles, 1906; publisher Western Insur- ance News, president Curran Printing Company, member Sigma Chi Fraternity, City Club and Union League of Los Angeles. the BENT, ARTHUR S., Contracting, Los Angeles, California, was born at Dowieville, California, in 1863. He is the son of Henry K. Bent and Jennie (Crawford) Bent. His ancestors were minute men and officers in the Revolutionary War. He married in Los An- geles, in 1888, Eliza J. McKee. They have two children, Ellen and Crawford H. Bent. He was taken to Los An- geles from Massachu- setts when 6 years old and received his edu- grammar and high schools of school he went into the He was a reporter on and Herald, and in cation in that city. Finishing newspaper business, the Los Angeles Times 1881 was city editor of the Los Angeles Express! He then went with the Banning Company at San Pedro and remained for five years. Was for a number of years general manager of the Pacific Clay manufacturing Company of Los Angeles and Corona, In 1888 he began for himself the business of general contracting, in T^liich he is now engaged. He has executed many important irrigation, con- crete and macadam road contracts throughout the West and Mexico and maintains offices in Denver and Seattle. He is a member of the Jonathan Club and sev- eral learned societies. CHANDLER, LEO S., Banker, Los An- geles, California, was born at St. Louis, Mis- souri, September 4, 1878, the son of Jeffer- son Chandler and Cath- erine (O'Toole) Chand- ler. Married Louise Towell McFarland in February, 1907, at Los Angeles. To them two children have been born, Dan McFarland and Thomas Alden Chandler. He attended the St. Louis University, St. Louis, then was sent to Stanton Military Acad- emy. To prepare for college he went to the famous Lawrenceville, New Jersey, school. Before com- pleting his course his family moved to Los Angeles, in the year 1894. Two years later he entered the Leland Stanford University. He studied through three years, until the spring of 1899. Then he left to engage in U. S. Transport Service. Purser of Transport Warren, which took the Fourteenth Regiment to China during the Boxer Rebellion, to May, 1900, resigned for place in general manager's office Salt Lake Railroad. Left in 1905 to join Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank, with which he has continued to date as trust officer. He studied law after leaving college; admitted to bar in 1906. Mr. Chandler is a member of the Phi Delta Phi and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternities and the California Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 105 BARLOW, WALTER JARVIS, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, California, was bom in Ossining, New York, January 22, 1868, the son of William Henry Barlow and Catherine Stratton (Lent) Bar- low. Ancestors origi- nal American colonists. Married Marion Brooks Patterson at Los An- geles in 1898. Three children horn to them, W. J., Jr.; Catherine Lent and Ella Brooks. Graduated at Mount Pleasant Military Acad- emy, 1885, New York State; graduated Columbia University 1889, degree A. B.; received degree M. D. at Columbia Univer- sity in 1892. His first practice was as house physi- cian at the Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City; then he was house surgeon at Sloane Maternity Hospital, New York; instructor Post Graduate School of New York. Went to California in 1895; in private practice since 1895. Dean and professor of Clinical Medi- cine, Los Angeles Department, College of Medi- cine, University of California; vice president of American Academy of Medicine, member of Ameri- can Climatological Association and President Los Angeles Medical Association; secretary-treasurer the Barlow Sanatorium. Clubs: California and University, Los Angeles Athletic Club and Phi Pho Sigma Fraternity. KRESS, GEORGE H., physician, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Cin- cinnati, O., December 23, 1874, the son of Hen- ry Kress and Salome (Kern) Kress. He mar- ried Elizabeth Hamil- ton Hill, a college class- mate, June 16, 1903, at Cincinnati. He graduated from Hughes High School, Cincinnati, in 1892; re- ceived his degree, after four years of study, from the University of Cincinnati in the year 1896, and then took up the study of medicine at the same university. He received the degree of M. D. in 1899. Dr. Kress at once became resi- dent physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati; appointed assistant surgeon at the Na- tional Soldiers' Hospital, Dayton, O., 1900-1903; went to Los Angeles to engage in private practice. Conspicuous in medical affairs and prominent in fight against tuberculosis. Chairman of the State Tuberculosis Commission to investigate tuberculo- sis in California. Member of all the important medi- cal and scientific societies; has written proliflcally on health subjects, having received the gold and silver medals from the International Tuberculosis Congress for educational leaflets, 1908. Secretary of Faculty and Professor of Hygiene, Los Angeles department. State University of California Medical School. Member, University Club of Los Angeles. F I T Z H U G H - THORNTON, Archi- tect, Los Angeles, Cal., since 1895. Born In- dianapolis, Ind., 1864. Parents, Lee Mason and Anna Harrison (Thornton) Fitzhugh. Educated in Indianap- olis and Cincinnati. Studied art under Mr. Charles J. Fiscus of Indianapolis. Studied, afterward taught archi- tecture for four years, Ohio Mechanics' Insti- tute, Cincinnati. Took special course in struc- tural steel in Chicago. After about eight years in well known Eastern offices, began prac- tice in Cincinnati, designing buildings for the Amer- ican Cotton Seed Oil Company, Russell-Morgan Printing Company, "Big Four," and "C. & O." Railways. In Los Angeles he has built the Pacific Electric Building, with the Jonathan Club and its roof gar- den, the Territorial Penitentiary and the Insane Hospital of Arizona. Mr. Fitzhugh drafted the first building ordi- nance of Cincinnati, and served on the Los An- geles Building Ordinance Commission of 1905-6 and the Theater Commission of the latter year. Dr. Matthew Thornton, one of the architects of the National Capitol Building, was in Mr. Fitz- hugh's maternal line. He is a member of the Southern California Chapter, A. I. A. BLACK, GEORGE NATHAN, Real Estate, Los Angeles, California, was born in San Fran- cisco, California, June 17, 1876, the son of Samuel Black and Ros- alie (Newman) Black. Began life as a newsboy, went through the grammar school and high schools of Los Angeles, to which city he went when he was 9 yeari. old. Leaving school, he went to work in a de- partment store, and aft- er a few years entered the real estate busi- ness, in which he has remained to date. Is junior partner of the firm of Black Brothers. Mr. Black, although yet a young man, has had a notable political career. He is a Republican and honored by his party. He has served on its State, city and county executive committees at Los Angeles. He was entrusted, in 1908, with the man- agement of the Taft campaign in Los Angeles County. He was chairman of the Republican City Convention in 1908. Governor Gillett of California made him Lieutenant-Colonel on his staff. He has not yet been a candidate for office, although urged repeatedly. Past Grand President Independent Order B'nai B'rith, Past Master Westgate Lodge, F. and A. M., member Governing Committee Los Angeles Realty Board. io6 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OTTENGER, FRANCIS MARION, Physician, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Sater, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1869. His father was Thomas Pottenger and his mother Hannah Ellen (Sater) Pottenger. On his moth- er's side his ancestry runs direct to Oliver Crom- well. April 5, 1894, Dr. Pottenger married Carrie Burtner, of Germantown, Ohio, and Aug. 29, 1900, married Adelaide Gertrude Babbitt, at Sacramento, Cal. By his second wife there are three children, Francis Marion, Jr., Robert Thomas and Adelaide Marie Pottenger. Dr. Pottenger, one of the leading lung specialists in Southern California, and one of the world's leading cru- saders in the fight against tuberculosis, was born on an Ohio farm. He began his studies in the public schools of Sater and in the Prepara- tory Department of Otter- bein University, Westerville, Ohio, for his higher educa- tion, from 1886 to 1888. He then entered the collegiate department of Otterbein, re- maining until 1892, when he was graduated with the de- gree of Ph. B. He obtained the degree of A. M. in 1907, and the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1909. Determining upon medicine for his life work, he spent the next year at the Medical College of Ohio. Another year in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery and he received his degree of M. D., graduating with the highest honors of his class and winning the first gold medal. He left school April 3, 1894, two days later was married, and before the end of the month was In Europe, where he spent his honeymoon and did post-graduate work in leading hospitals of the old world, particularly those of Vienna. Returning in December, 1894, he began practice at Norwood, Ohio, and became assistant to Dr. Charles A. L. Reed, a noted surgeon of Cincinnati. About the same time he was made assistant to the Chair of Surgery of his Alma Mater. In 1895, his wife developing tuberculosis. Dr. Pottenger surrendered his practice and went to Monrovia, Cal., where he re-engaged in practice. His wife's health failing to Improve, he gave up his work a second time and returned to her home, near Dayton, Ohio, there to devote all his time to her care, until she died, in 1898. It had been Dr. Pottenger's intention to specialize in diseases of children and obstetrics, but when his wife died he DR. F. M. POTTENGER decided that much more important work could be done in tuberculosis, and he took up tuberculosis as a life study. He returned to California to re- sume practice, but in 1900 suspended temporarily while he did post-graduate work in New York. Re- turning to California in 1901, he opened offices in Los Angeles as a tuberculosis specialist, the first ethical physician on the Pacific Coast to specialize in this line. In 1903, in the picturesque and health- ful environs of Monrovia, he established the Pot- tenger Sanatorium for Dis- eases of the Lungs and Throat, which has grown to be one of the famous institu- tions of the world. From a capacity of eleven, it has grown until now it houses more than one hundred pa- tients. The success of the institution as a scientific life saving station has been due to the personal efforts of Dr. Pottenger, who has continually strived for better methods. With this thought in mind, he has visited the leading sanatoria of Europe and America, attended many scientific gatherings and as- sociated with the leaders of the universe In the war against the plague. He has written a book on the sub- ject, in addition to about sev- enty-five separate papers, and has delivered numerous lectures on the subject. Through Dr. Pottenger's efforts the Southern Califor- nia Anti-Tuberculosis League was founded, and he was its President for three years. Among the noted and learned societies of which he is a member, the following are given: The Los Angeles County Medical Association, the Los An- geles Clinical and Pathological Society, the South- ern California Medical Society, the Medical Society of California, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Medicine, the American Therapeutic Society, the American Climatological Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Asso- ciation; Los Angeles, California, National and In- ternational Associations for the Study and Preven- tion of Tuberculosis, the American Sanatorium Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the National Geographical Society. He is a member of the California Club, the Uni- versity Club and the Gamut Club, of Los An- geles. In August, 1911, he was appointed First Lieuten- ant in the Medical Reserve Corps, of the United States Army. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 107 I ILGER, PRANK WILLIAM, Secre- tary, Treasurer and Manager of the Oakland Paving Company and of the Blake & Bilger Company, was born at Willow Springs, Ore- gon, August 2, 1868, the son of William F. Bilger and Pauline (Hauser) Bilger. He is of German descent on both sides of the house and seems to have inherited his quarry-operating and road-building proclivities from his paternal grandfather, who was a Bur- gomaster in Trossingen, Ger- many, and for many years operated stone quarries and was active in constructive work in various parts of the Empire. Mr. Bilger was married in Oakland, December 19, 1894, to Miss Carrie S. Siebe, daughter of George Siebe, for many years an official of the San Francisco Customs House. Their children are Anson S., Marion A., William F. and Frank W. Bilger, Jr. Mental and physical alert- ness, ambition to get ahead and avidity for any kind of work that came to hand have been the djTiamos that have supplied the live wire that Mr. Bilger has proved him- self to be. His actual school- ing was of the intermittent kind. Coming from Jackson- ville, Oregon, in May, 1875, he attended the grammar school in San Leandro, Ala- meda County, until 1883, and for the next two years tried to qualify as a farmer on his father's ranch at Vacaville, Solano County. Tiring of this uncongenial monotony, he secured employment, in 1885, in Bowman's Drug Store, Oakland, as errand boy, window washer and about everything else he was asked to be. During this strenuous appren- ticeship he entered the Department of Pharmacy of the University of California, from which he was graduated in 1889, with the degree of Ph. G. His ambition to add an M. D. to this designation, how- ever, was sidetracked by opportunity, for which he was ever on the watch. Pending his intended ma- triculation in the Cooper Medical College he be- came a collector for the Oakland Paving Company, liked the work, remained and was promoted to bookkeeper. On the death of one of the owners he was elected a trustee of the company, and later was made secretary and treasurer. In 1905 Mr. Bilger, with Mr. Anson S. Blake, or- ganized the Blake & Bilger Company, contractors for all kinds of work connected with the paving FRANK W. BILGER business. He has focused his commercial energies on these concerns, and together with his associates has developed them to large proportions. A super- fluity of energy, however, will generally find an outlet in more than one channel — a fact which Mr. Bilger has well exemplified. For years he was a director of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, in which capacity he became a close observer and a student of organization work. Largely through his intelligent efforts the membership of the chamber was greatly increased, and in 1906, on the consolidation with the Board of Trade, he was made its first vice presi- dent. The next year he was chosen president of the body. Immediately after the fire of 1906 Mr. Bilger became very active in the relief work. Dropping his private business he co-operated with the business men of San Francisco .and was one of the most ardent of all the Good Samaritans in that beneficent field. In 1907 Mr. Bilger or- ganized the Harbor Bank and was its first president, acting at the same time as director of the Oakland Bank of Commerce. Beyond all this he has been a very live Republican, for six years chairman of the City Cen- tral Committee, manager of Mayor Mott's campaign in 1905 and state campaign manager for Alden Anderson, candidate for Gover- nor in 1910. His prominence and success in fra- ternal circles have been equally marked. He or- ganized the Alameda County Shriners' Club, for four years held together the disintegrating ele- ments, and in April, 1910, had the Imperial Council, in session at New Orleans, grant the charter for Aahmes Temple, Oakland's new shrine. He was elected the first Illustrious Potentate of the temple and still retains the office. He is a member of the Yerba Buena Lodge, F. & A. M.; of the Oakland Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M.; Oakland Commandery, K. T.; Oakland Consistory, A. A. R. S.; Woodmen of the World, and an Elk. He belongs also to the Nile, the Deutscher and the Athenian Clubs of Oakland, and is the tenth life member of the Society of American Magicians, an order whose chief object is the prevention of exposure of the tricks by which public entertainers in this field earn their living and whose efforts have done a great deal toward keeping the myster- ies of the art among the fascinations of the stage. io8 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY GENERAL HARRISON GRAY OTIS PRES. AND GEN. MGR. TIMES-MIRROR COMPANY, PIBLISHERS LOS ANGELES TIMES NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 109 1 P^ RINGLE, WILLIAM BULL, Attorney and Counselor-at- Law, San Francisco, Califor- nia, was born in Oakland, Cal., Sept. 14, 1872, the son of Edward J. Pringle and Cornelia Covington (Johnson) Pringle. His father was for many years a noted lawyer in San Francisco, and in 1899 was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court Commission of Cal- ifornia. Among his an- cestors who distinguished themselves in South Car- olina, especially notewor- thy was his great-grand- father, Hon. John Julius Pringle, of Charleston, who on the 26th of Sep- tember, 1789, was ap- pointed by George Wash- ington Judge of the Dis- trict of South Carolina, and who, on June 15, 1809, declined the United States Attorney General- s h i p offered him by Thomas Jefferson, at that time President of the United States. In con- nection with this histori- cal tender of office an in- teresting incident grew out of one of President Taft's visits to the South during his campaign. While calling at the Prin- gle home in Charleston he saw the original document containing the above-mentioned offer from President Jeffer- son, and remarked : "Pringle, Pringle — I don't remember any Attorney General by that name!" "Yes," replied the lady of the house, "but in those days the office sought the man, not the man the office. Mr. Pringle declined the offer." On his maternal side Mr. Pringle is a great-great grandson of the Revolutionary heroine, Rebecca Motte, and through his con- nections has a personal pride in much of the early history of South Carolina. On Dec. 19, 1899, he was married in Oakland, Cal., to Miss Isabel Hutchinson, the children of which union are William Bull Pringle, Jr., born Sept. 16, 1903, and Anne Isabel Pringle, born Oct. 16, 1905. After a course through the Oakland gram- mar school he entered Boone's Academy, in Berkeley, where he prepared for Yale Univer- WILLIAM B. PRINGLE sity, and later became a member of the class of '95. Afterward attended Yale Law School, transferring to Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, from which he took the degree of LL. B. in 1895. In the latter year he began his professional life as a clerk in the law office of his father, Edward J. Pringle. Three years later he be- came a member of the firm of Pringle, Monroe & Pringle. In 1899 the firm was changed to Prin- gle & Pringle, of which he and his brother, Ed- ward J. Pringle, Jr., were the junior partners. Short- ly thereafter his father re- tired from the firm to be- come Judge of the Su- preme Court Commis- sion, and the firm Pringle & Pringle has continued to the present time, being composed of the two brothers. In 1895-96 Mr. Prin- gle was a member and President of the Oakland City Council, and since that time has been inter- ested in real estate. Of late years his enterprise has extended to securing of long leases as an aid to the rebuilding of the city. Among the expressions of his activity in this di- rection are the Russ Building, the Turpin Hotel and the Terminal Hotel. He is President of the Convention League, formed for the purpose of attracting important conventions to San Francisco. He reads much on economic subjects, upon which he has positive views. He is well known as a football enthusiast and expert and for a number of years coached the Re- liance Club eleven to victory over the best teams on the Pacific Coast. In addition to his membership in the firm of Pringle & Pringle, he is President of the Montgomery Street Investment Co., Powell Street Investment Co., Terminal Investment Co. ; vice president S. F. Suburban Home Bldg. Society, Columbia Theater Co., Secre- tary Direct Line Telephone Co., and director of the United Milk Co. His clubs are: Pacific-Union, Burlingame Country, Mira Monte Gun and the Com- monwealth. no PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY DAVID KEITH NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST III iK EITH, DAVID, Capitalist, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born at Ma- bou. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, May 27, 1847, the son of John Keith and Margaret (Ness) Keith. He married Miss Mary Ferguson of Salt Lake City and is the father of four children, Mrs. Richard S. Eskridge of Seattle, Washington, Mrs. Albert C. Allen of Medfdrd, Ore- gon, Miss Margaret Keith and David Keith, Jr., who is now attending school in Connecticut. Mr. Keith had no advantages of riches at birth, and his schooling was limited to a few yeais at the public schools of his na:tive town. At a tender age, however, he went to work in the mines of Nova Scotia, but gave this up before long because the love of adventure was strong within him. He ran away to sea while still a boy, but tired of the life of a sailor after a time, and thought that war offered him a better chance for adventure. The Civil War beginning, he tried to enter the Federal Army, but his sea captain, who had become at- tached to him, interposed an obstacle that even young Keith could not overcome. The captain dis- closed the extreme youth of the would-be soldier and he was barred from the ranks. Balked in this ambition, he went to California, and in 1867, after a brief period spent in the Golden State, journeyed to Nevada. He was em- ployed for a time as construction boss in the build- ing of the Southern Pacific Railroad near Reno, but left this in due time to go back to his original work of mining. That this was his destined field would seem to have been proved by the events which followed in his life. He first obtained employment in the great Comstock mines, and by his intelligent work at- tracted attention which placed him, in quick suc- cession, in positions of trust and responsibility in the operations of that famous property. On the decline of the celebrated Comstock camp he moved to Park City, Utah, arriving there in 1883. He accepted a position as foreman of On- tario No. 3, and later became superintendent. It was in the management of the Ontario that the really great abilities of Mr. Keith as a mining man came to general notice. After several years' association with that en- terprise he became a mine owner. Here we ar- rive at the point where he was transformed from a manager into one of the greatest men in the his- tory of mining in the United States. In partner- ship with Thomas Kearns (later United States Senator from Utah), John Judge and Al Emery, he began taking leases on mining claims, from which enterprise sprang the fabulous Silver King mine, the most famous silver property in the world and one which has not only made multi-millionaires of its promoters and their families, but added im- mensely tothe visible wealth of the State. This silver treasury has been declared the most important factor in the growth and development of Utah and Salt Lake City, and few men, if any, have had more to do with the upbuilding of the capital than David Keith. He, in a great measure, became the silver king of Utah, and the successful work in making of a mere prospect the wonderful Silver King mine has been of such varied and picturesque coloring that if the story were presented in its many interest- ing details it would read like a story from the "Arabian Nights." Salt Lake City itself may be taken as an ever- lasting monument to the work of the Silver King developers, for almost all of the wealth which the mine poured into the laps of its owners has been used by them in making of Utah's capital a "City Beautiful" in every sense of the term. The money wrested from the mountains has been kept at home, and no man is more public spirited in the use of his part of it than is David Keith. The range of his activities has been a wide one and of almost incalculable value in making a mod- ern commonwealth out of the rugged territory of Utah. He has been engaged in mining, mercantile, banking, real estate and other lines of endeavor and into each he has put the force of a progressive character and the unlimited energy which has marked him all through life. Aside from his work in developing the Silver King, Mr. Keith organized the Keith-O'Brien Com- pany, one of the greatest mercantile establish- ments in the Trans-mountain States, but about two years ago he disposed of his interest in the latter to David F. Walker, although the name of the firm remains the same. At the present time he is president of the Sil- ver King Coalition Mines Co., president Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co., president First National Bank of Park City, Utah, director of the National Copper Bank of Salt Lake, director Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad, director National Bank of the Republic, Salt Lake City, and a large bond and stockholder in the San Pedro, Las Vegas, Los An- geles and Salt Lake Railroad. In addition to these connections, Mr. Keith is the owner of large real estate and property interests in Salt Lake, as well as large timber tracts. He has always devoted part of his time to his city and State and has been one of the prime movers in any enterprise which had for its object the betterment of either. He has taken a patriotic interest in politics, and was a member of the Legislature which adopted the Con- stitution of the State, but beyond this he has neither sought nor held political office. Mr. Keith is a man of personality and his club memberships testify to his popularity. They are: Alta, Commercial, Elks and Salt Lake County, of Salt Lake; California Club, of Los Angeles; Rocky Mountain Club, of New York City. He finds a recreation in reading, his library of standard works being one of the most complete in the West. 112 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ELLER, WILL E., President Globe Grain and Milling Company, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born at Wood- ville, Mississippi, January 30, 1868, the son of Charles E. Keller and Agnes M. (Phares) Keller. Mr. Keller has four sons, Robert L., Will J., Edward McD., and Henry E. Keller. In 1892 Mr. Keller went to Los Angeles and there began what has become one of the most notable careers in that city of successful men. He first embarked in the wholesale grain busi- ness, and expanded it to such an extent that in 1898 he organized a man- ufacturing company and built a large mill plant. This was followed by another plant, erected at Colton, Cal., in 1902; the next year they built at San Francisco. This plant later was partially destroyed by fire, but was rebuilt in 1906. Another plant was built at Wood- land, California, in 1905; El Paso, Texas, followed in 1909, and San Diego, California, in 1910. It was about this time that Mr. Keller became interested in ice manufacturing, and in this line also he was concerned in the erection of several big plants, among them one at El Paso, in 1909; another at Fresno, California, in 1910, and a third at Bakers- field, California, in 1911. The combined capacity of the flour mills is 4200 barrels per day of flour and 500 tons of feed. The daily output of the ice plants combined is 336 tons, and they have a total storage capacity of 20,000 tons. Mr. Keller bears the honor of having constructed the first fire-proof flour mills in the West. These various ice and flour enterprises are owned and operated by separate com- panies, all organized by Mr. Keller, and in W. E. KELLER all of which he is the controlling factor, both as to management and policy. Each is a success by itself and they are not in any way interdependent. Through them many hun- dred persons are given work and they form a series of the greatest industrial operations in the western country. The companies and Mr. Keller's connection in each are as fol- lows: Globe Grain and Milling Company, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Presi- dent; Colton Grain and Milling Company, Presi- dent; San Diego Grain and Milling Company, President ; Woodland Grain and Milling Com- pany, President; El Paso Grain and Milling Com- pany, President; Califor- nia and Oregon Grain and Elevator Company, President; Globe Ice and Cold Storage Company, El Paso, President; Val- ley Ice Company, Fresno and Bakersfield, Presi- dent. Despite the arduous duties which fall upon him as head of these nu- merous and active con- cerns, Mr. Keller has other interests which claim part of his time, and to all he gives the best that is in him, as organizer, executive or planner. He is a di- rector and stockholder in the Merchants' Na- tional Bank, one of the largest in Los An- geles ; also a director of the Ralston Iron Works of San Francisco. From this list it is apparent that Mr. Kel- ler is one of the busiest business men in the United States, and necessarily must be a prac- tical improver of the great Pacific Coast coun- try. He has little time for recreation, but when he does take a holiday usually spends it hunting. He holds memberships in the Cali- fornia, Los Angeles Country and Westmin- ster Gun Clubs of Los Angeles, Pacific Union and Transportation Clubs of San Francisco, and the El Paso Country Club, El Paso, Tex. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 113 ARWOOD, ALFRED JAMES, Attorney at Law, San Francisco, California, was born in that city, April 30, 1881, the son of Henry Harwood and Jane (McNerney) Harwood. His father was a well known mining man of the early days of California, who came to the State in 1850 and tried his luck with varying success, along the Ameri- can river, subsequently shifting his operations to the Eraser river of British Columbia. Mr. H a r- wood comes of a very sturdy English stock, with a liberal graft, in the botanical meaning of the term, of distinguished forbears. Among the lat- ter his great-uncle. Sir Robert John Coghan, was a general, under Wellington, and won glory by his bravery in the battles of Salamanca and Talavera; while his great grandfather. Sir Owen Pell, was an ad- m i r a 1 in the British Navy. A paternal grand- father, a native of Eng- land, went to Canada in the early part of the last century, and was a magistrate of H a 1 1 o n County, Ontario, for many years; while a maternal grandfather was a prominent architect of Dublin, Ireland. The force of heredity is in strong evidence here, and A. J. Harwood has all the physi- cal, and many of the mental, characteristics of a pure-blooded Englishman, even to the point of deferring marriage longer than is the wont of Americans, for he is still a bachelor. His education has been exceptional, if not unique. Until he was eighteen he re- ceived most of his schooling at home, largely under the direction of his mother, a highly cultivated woman, who seems to have in- stilled in him a genuine thirst for knowl- edge. With this incentive, probably the most essential stimulus to rapid progress, he was able to profit much by the private instruction subsequently given him by various professors. At the age of twenty- one he began to study law, of his own initia- tive, adopting the case system which the A. J. HARWOOD Harvard Law School at Cambridge had the honor of originating. This method of study still further developed the independence of thought and reliance upon self which his previous education had fostered. With as excellent an equipment as he could have obtained from a process with which he was in less perfect sympathy he was admitted to the Bar in 1905, and soon thereafter began the practice of his pro- fession. Mr. Harwood's legal beginnings were sonte- what u h u s u a 1 1 y for- tunate, for as assistant to the firm o f Bishop, Wheeler & Hoefler, the predecessor of the present partnership, he had the advantage of valuable associations and a large business. On the retire- ment of Mr. Wheeler in 1905 his duties and ex- perience were materially increased, and in the fol- lowing year he was ad- mitted to partnership, the title becoming Bishop, Hoefler, Cook & Har- wood. His practice has been entirely of a civil nature, largely in corporation law, wherein a knowledge of commercial theory and practice is an es- sential of success. In this connection he has become attorney for a number of important concerns, such as The San Francisco Breweries Ltd., the City Street Improve- ment Company, and others. He is one of those men who have suflficient versatility to be at one time a little uncertain of their proper sphere of action, but whose adapt- ability enables them to find success and con- tentment in the field they finally choose. Mv. Harwood formerly fluctuated between medi- cine and law as a choice of professions, but he has evidently "found himself" in the lat- ter. His English inheritance again appears in his wholesome, breezy, afifable personality as well as in his fondness for outloor lifey and he relaxes variously, on horseback, on the tennis courts and on the golf links. His club activity is confined to the follow- ing organizations: Bohemian, Olympic Ath- letic, Presidio Golf, California Lawn Tennis. 114 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ^ig-/ae»^ UNT, MYRON, Architect, Los Angeles, California, was born on February 27, 1868, at Sunderland, Massachusetts, his parents being Myron Hunt, Sr., and Hannah (Miller) Hunt. In 1893 he mar- ried Miss Harriette H. Boardman. Three sons and a daughter have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. After completing the course of the grammar schools in Chicago, where the family early removed, and graduating at the Lake View High School. Mr. Hunt attended the North- western University for two years with the Class of 1892. from which school he went to the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, taking the special course in architecture. After com- pleting the special architec- tural course at the Institute, Mr. Hunt went to Europe, and during 1895 and 1896, by actual view and study of the great architectural monu- ments, further prepared him- self for the important works which were to come to him. In the beginning of his ca- reer Mr. Hunt served as draughtsman, first for Hart- well and Richardson, archi- tects, of Boston, entering this work in 1894. In a sim- ilar capacity he worked for Jenny and Mundie; for Henry Ives Cobb, and for Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, all well known Chicago firms, between the years 1897 and 1899, when the young man found himself in such posi- tion that he felt justified In starting out for him- self and he began an independent practice in Chi- cago. This continued from 1899 until 1903, during which period Mr. Hunt made a specialty of apart- ments and residences. In 1903 he moved from Chicago to Los Angeles as a result of illness in his family. In 1904 he formed a business partnership with Mr. Elmer Grey, who had come to Los An- geles from Milwaukee. This partnership was dis- solved in October, 1910. The result of its work can be found in remarkably frequent and varying works of beauty and practical adaptability. Instances of these achievements are: The Den- jian warehouses in San Francisco; additions to the Mary Lamb Hotel in Pasadena; the Ingraham Hotel of Los Angeles; the remodeled Casa Loma Hotel in Redlands; and of particular moment, the residence of H. E. Huntington, on his property for- merly known as the Shorb Ranch, adjacent to Pas- adena; this structure is possibly the most ambi- tious and complete private residence in the State, and is a worthy setting for the varied art treasures which its owner is installing in it. Other most delightful residences erected by the firm of Hunt and Grey are those of Messrs. How- ard E. Huntington at Oak Knoll; H. S. McKee, Monrovia; Lee Phillips, Los Angeles; Walter MYRON HUNT Leeds, Los Angeles; G. W. Wattles, Hollywood; Dr. Guy Cochran, Los Angeles; B. M. Neustadt, Los Angeles; G. W. Winter, Los Angeles; R. C. Gillis, Santa Monica; L. A. Nares, Beverly; H. W. Bailey, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena; Dr. Web- ster Merrifleld, in the same locality; John J. Mitchell, Pasadena; S. P. Calef, Santa Barbara. The erection of the Gillespie Villa, Santa Bar- bara, was also superintended by this firm for New York architects. The firm also designed the Throop Polytechnic In- stitute buildings, in Pasa- dena, and the dormitory for Pomona College. Since the dissolution of the firm Mr. Hunt has under- taken the erection of the en- tire group of buildings for Occidental College, and is completing the unfinished Throop Institute buildings. He is also finishing for the dissolved firm residences for E. M. Taylor, Altadena, and for E. F. Robbins, Oak Knoll, and the First Congregational Church at Riverside. Mr. Hunt is also official architect for Pomona College, Occidental College, Whlttier College, the George Junior Republic and the Hotel Mary- land. He is also erecting from his own designs notable resi- dences for Russell Taylor in Los Angeles; for John P. Wilson, Pasadena, and has under way at this writing the home for the Elks' Order at Pasadena and a residence for former U. S. Senator Thomas R. Bard at Oxnard. The result of Mr. Hunt's having been one of the architects of Mr. H. E. Hunt- ington's now famous San Gabriel Valley residence has been his recent appointment as architect for the preparation of the drawings looking toward the improvement of an entire city square measuring 600 feet in each direction, at Main St., Eleventh St., Twelfth St. and Hill St., in L«s Angeles, owned by Mr. Huntington, upon a portion of which Mr. Hunt is about to erect for Mr. Huntington a twelve- story fireproof steel office building, for the use of Mr. Huntington's various corporations and sub-cor- porations and for the purpose of ordinary office rental. The building, measuring 200 feet square, is a part of a group of buildings of such importance that they are destined to become the nucleus of one of the main business centers of the city. Mr. Hunt Is the author of numerous architec- tural magazine articles on the subjects of apart- ments and also on gardens. He is a Fellow of American Institute of Archi- tects COS), president of the Architectural Club of Los Angeles and one of the ex-presidents of the Southern California Chapter of the American Insti- tute of Architects. He is a member of the Califor- nia Club, University Club, Gamut Club, Architec- tural Club, Valley Hunt, Twilight and Tuna Clubs. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 115 'CORNICK, WILLIAM SYLVES- TER, Banking, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Sept. 14, 1837, the son of George Mc- Cornick and Mary (Vance) Mc- Cornick. He married Hann,ah Keogh, at Austin, Nevada, in January, 1867, and to them there were bom ten children: William (deceased), Emma W., Henry A., Harry (deceased), Clarence K., Willis S., Lewis B., Anna, Albert V., and Genevieve McComick. Mr. McCornick's parents were farmers and he spent his early days in the trying duties that go with life on a farm. The rudiments of his education he obtained at the public schools of his na- tive town, but he added to it by his own efforts and taught himself many things that did not appear in the curri- culum of the school. He re- mained on the farm until he reached the voting age and then decided to go forth in the world. He pointed for the States and the Golden West, which seemed to offer the best op- portunities for fortune, and located at Marysville, Cal., where he first went to work as a rancher. After two years there he went, in 1862, to the mining regions of Ne- vada, the fame of the great Comstock lode having reached him. For the next eleven years he was en- gaged in lumber and mining pursuits in various parts of Nevada and at different times was located at Virginia City, Belmont, Austin and Hamilton. From Belmont, where he had rounded out a snug fortune, he went to Salt Lake City, arriving there in May, 1873, and within a month started the banking business of which he is the head today. The house was first known as White and McCor- nlck and it continued as such until 1875, when the firm name was changed to McCorniclt & Company, with Mr. McCornick as sole owner. This house, probably the greatest of its kind in the inter- mountain country and surely one of the greatest factors in the growth of Salt Lake City,was a one- man proposition during the greater part of its days (the one man being Mr. McCornick), but in 1910 it was incorporated as a State Bank, and as such it is conducted today. liYom that first venture Mr. McCornick has be- come the largest individual banker in Salt Lake, and in addition to the great institution which bears w. s. McCornick his name, he has interests in numerous other banks, among them the Utah National, Utah Sav- ings Bank and Trust Company, Garfield Banking Company, Twin Falls Bank and Trust Company, in all of which he is president; First National of Nephi, of which he is vice president, and the First National of Logan, Utah; First National of Park City and First National of Prier City, Utah, in which he holds directorships. His early successes in the mining lands of Nevada gave Mr. McCornick an intimate knowledge which has served as the basis for a wonderful series of invest- ments in that line, and today he holds numerous valuable interests in the various min- ing properties of Utah. He is a heavy stockholder in all of them, organizer of many and officer in most of them. Among his mining con- nections are Silver King Coalition Mining Company, Treasurer and Director; Daly West Mining Company, Treasurer and Director; Cen- tennial-Bureka, the Grand Central. He is also a direc- tor of the American Smelting and Refining Company, the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, the Utah -Idaho Sugar Company, Utah Light and Railroad Company; Pres- ident Guardian Casualty Com- pany, President Raft River Land and Livestock Company, in Idaho; President Gold Belt Water Company, Utah; Vice President Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company, Vice President Hotel Utah. All of these are active, paying institutions and the brain of Mr. McCornick is an important factor in the policies and success of each, because he gives to them quite as much of his vigorous, energetic methods as he does to his banking. While not an active politician, Mr. McCornick is possessed of a great civic pride and has always been ready to serve in any way that would benefit his city. He served as a member of the Salt Lake City Council in 1888, and some years later was re- elected and served as President of that body. He was for seventeen years President of the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College and did much to advance education. He was the first President of the Alta Club, and in addition to his membership in that belongs to the Commercial Club. He is a man of generous im- pulses and his personal philanthropies have been numerous and practical. ii6 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY EDWIN T. EARL PUBLISHER LOS ANGELES EXPRESS ANIl LOS ANGELES TRIBrNE NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 117 OAK, DAVID PERRY, Cap- italist, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, was born in the town of Cameron, Missouri, Janu- ary 27, 1866, the son of Thomas Doak and Sarah (Cofifing) Doak. Mr. Doak received his early education in the public schools of his native town and subsequently took a course at the Macon City College of Macon, Missouri. Upon com- pletion of this part of his studies he immediately embarked on his com- mercial career and from that day down to date has been continually en- gaged. His career, be- gun with banking, has coursed through railroad construction and the sur- veying of terminals to the organization of mod- ern steel plants, and he is now president of the Pacific Coast Steel Com- pany. His has been an evolution natural, if somewhat metallic, for a man whose constitution has absorbed something like the powerful mate- rial in which he has worked and whose large ideas have been backed by the ability to execute them. Mr. Doak first entered business life in a bank at Kendall, Kansas. In this he con- tinued from 1886 to 1889, and then, after ad- vancing through various stages in that field, changed to railroad construction, in which he was busy for the next four years. In 1893 he became President and Gen- eral Manager of the Missouri Smelting Co. at St. Louis, but in 1899 left this office to en- gage in the surveying of terminals and vari- ous lines for certain transcontinental roads that desired to extend their operations to the Pacific Coast. He was active in this work until 1903, when he was made President, in full charge of the construction of the Pana- ma-American R. R. of Mexico. By the com- pletion of this he connected the Mexican lines with the railroads of Guatemala, and subsequently sold to the Mexican Govern- ment. D. P. DOAK in somewhat similar fields his ideas of devel- opment and construction work were expand- ing and led him to shift his operations to what he deemed the most promising ground for them. He had come to California from St. Louis in 1899, and was not slow to sense the great possibilities to be realized by imag- ination and energy. So from 1910 to 1911 we find him engaged in constructing the first modern steel plant on the Pacific Coast. This has since been consolidated with the Seattle Com- pany and the Portland Rolling Mills, under the name of the Pacific Coast Steel Co. The business has expanded to huge proportions, and has add- ed much to the import- ance of this section of the country as an industrial Promised Land. Of recent years Mr. Doak has devoted much of his time to the devel- opment of his water rights on the McCloud River. He owns ten thou- sand acres of land in Shasta County, adjacent to this river, and therein has a watershed capable of supplying 80,000 inch- es, or 500,000,000 gallons of water per day. This he naturally regards as a formidable rival of any company in the field, and is determined to demonstrate its practi- cability in this respect. It is planned to bring this water through a concrete aqueduct down the Sacramento Valley, and furnish the towns and cities along its course, with a view to ultimately supplying San Francisco and the other bay cities. Having generally succeeded in ma- terializing his large views of things, Mr. Doak is confident that this last will not prove an exception in his progressive march toward the goal he has sighted. While he has many big interests he con- centrates chiefly on his water rights, the Pa- cific Coast Steel Co., the Doak Sheet Steel Co. and the Standard Corrugated Pipe Co., of all which he is president. He is a member of the Pacific Union Club of San Francisco and the ranking clubs of St. Louis, Mo., but de- During these years of varied experience votes most of his time to his business. ii8 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OOTH, HIRAM EVANS, At- torney - at - Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born on a farm near Postville, Iowa, Oc- ij tober 25, 1860, the son of Jos- eph Booth and Caroline (Bishop) Booth. He is descended from the ancient Booth family of Lancashire and Yorkshire, England. Mr. Booth was twice married, his first wife being Carrie M. Robinson, whom he married August 26, 1886, and who was claimed by death in De- cember of the following year. One child, Viola Katherine, was born to them. On May 29, 1889, Mr. Booth married Lil- lian B. Redhead, at Post- ville, and of this union there are two children, Mrs. C. E. W. Bowers andlrma A. Booth. Mr. Booth was educa- ted in the public schools of Iowa and also studied under private tutors. He read law with the Hon. Frank Shinn of Carson, Iowa, and was admitted to practice in the Su- preme Court of that State in 1885. After admission to the bar he purchased a half interest in the Carson Critic and was the editor and man- ager of it from 1885 to 1887, when he formed a law partnership with Mr. Shinn, withdraw- ing in 1888 to go to Utah. He was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Utah in 1889 and has practiced there continually since. He formed a partnership with John G. Gray and later E. O. Lee entered the firm, which was known as Booth, Lee & Gray. In 1898 Mr. Gray went to Seattle and Judge M. L. Ritchie, now of the Utah State District Court, entered the firm, but retired from it in 1907, when he was re-elected to the bench, and later State Senator Carl A. Badger took his place in the firm. Other partners were taken in and the firm is now known as Booth, Lee, Badger, Rich & Parke. Messrs. Booth and Lee have been in partnership longer than any other law firm in Utah. Mr. Booth has HIRAM E. BOOTH held office frequently, as follows: Elected to upper House of last Territorial Legisla- ture of Utah, serving in 1894; elected to first State Senate of Utah, 1896; member Execu- tive Committee Republican party in Utah, 1904; appointed by President Roosevelt U. S. Attorney for Utah, 1906; reappointed by President Taft June 27, 1910, and is now serving in that capacity; appointed Judge Ad- vocate General for Utah by Governor Spry in January, 1909, and is a Colonel on the Governor's Staff. As United States At- torney Mr. Booth was as- sociated with Hon. Fred A. Maynard in the coal land fraud cases in Utah, which resulted in a vic- tory for the Government, and was also associated with Messrs. Kellogg and Severance in the merger suit brought by the Unit- ed States against the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, Southern Pa- cific and other railroads to dissolve an unlawful merger. The case is pend- ing on appeal in the Su- preme Court of the Unit- ed States. Both these cases are among the most notable actions in which the Govern- ment has sought to protect its lands and to force coroporations to operate in accordance with the laws of the United States. In 1905 Mr. Booth was one of the incor- porators and president of the Intermountain Republican Printing Company, publishers of the Intermountain Republican, which was consolidated in 1909 with the Salt Lake Her- ald and is now known as the Herald- Republican. Mr. Booth is the inventor and patentee of the "claraphone," used on commercial phono- graphs and leased to the Columbia Phono- graph Company. He has also invented im- provements for telephone receivers. He is a member of the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City and has been in Wasatch Lodge, A. F. and A. M., since 1892. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 119 CHUYLER, JAMES DIX, consult- ing hydraulic engineer, was born at Ithaca, N. Y., May 11, 1848. He was the son of Philip Church Schuyler and Lucy M. (Dix) Schuyler. He married Mary In- galls Tuliper, July 25, 1889, at San Diego, California. Mr. Schuyler began his engineering career in 1869, on locating the western end of the Kansas Pacific Railway, in the days when it was necessary to fight the Indians as well as to combat the elements of nature in a wild country. Many thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes re- sulted, and in one battle he was seriously wounded. In 1882-83 he was appoint- ed chief engineer and gen- eral superintendent of the Sinaloa & Durango Railway in Mexico, returning to Cali- fornia in 1883 to avoid yel- low fever. During 1884-85 he built a section of the San Francisco sea-wall as one of a firm of contractors and the engineer in charge. In 1890- 91 he designed and super- vised the building of the Hemet dam in Riverside County, California, the high- est masonry structure in the State. During subsequent years Mr. Schuyler devoted special attention to hy- draulic engineering in gen- eral, designing and building water works in many cities and towns, including Denver, Colorado; Portland, Oregon, and numerous others. In the years 1903-04-05 he was employed as the consulting engineer for the build- ing of the great dam on Snake River at the head of the Twin Palls Canal, probably the largest irriga- tion system in America, and held a similar relation to the American Beet Sugar Co. in California and Colorado during a period of nine years of irrigation and water supply development. In the course of his long practice he has been called upon to act in an advisory capacity for a very large number of irri- gation projects, power development projects and domestic water-supply works throughout Western America, and in the midst of his other activities he made such a specialty of the constructing of dams by the interesting and novel process of hydraulic sluicing as to have become a recognized authority among engineers the world over on that subject. One of his first works of this type was the Lake Francis Dam, built for the Bay Counties Power Company in Yuba County, California. As consulting engineer of the Great Western Power Co. of California, he was foremost in point- ing out the rare possibilities of a project which has since become the largest power development in the State. Much of his time has been engaged in plan- ning and building extensive works for power and irrigation in Mexico, Hawaii, Japan, Brazil and throughout the Western States of America. In 1907 Mr. Schuyler was a member of a board of three consulting engineers selected to report on the plans for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, bringing water from the Owens River, a distance of some 250 miles. Changes in location of the aqueduct which were suggested by him and subsequently adopted at the recommendation of the board, resulted in a saving of some twenty-five miles of heavy construction, which would have cost several millions. This is generally regarded as the most distinguished service he has accomplished for the public, a service meeting with fullest recognition by those familiar with the facts. He was consulting engi- neer to Waialua Plantation, Hawaii, on the construction of the highest dam on the islands, chiefly built by sluic- ing; was also consulting en- gineer for Territorial Gov- ernment of Hawaii on Nuu- anu dam, Honolulu, and for U. S. Indian Bureau on build- ing of Zuni dam. New Mex- ico. He was consulting engi- neer for the British Colum- bia Electric Ry. Co. and Van- couver Power Co. on dam construction, the reclama- tion of swamp lands, etc. Mr. Schuyler was appoint- ed in January, 1909, by Pres- ident Roosevelt to accom- pany President-elect Taft to JAS. D. SCHUYLER Panama as one of seven en- gineers to report on canal plans, the Gatun dam, etc. The unanimous report of this board of en- gineers was in favor of carrying out the plan adopted by Congress for a lock-canal, but recom- mended a modification of the height and slopes of the Gatun dam, lowering It by twenty feet. Mr. Schuyler is past vice president, American Society of Civil Engineers; member, Institution of Civil Engineers of London, Eng.; Technical Society of Pacific Coast, Engineers and Architects' Assn. of So. Cal., Franklin Institute, American Geographical Society. He is author of "Reservoirs for Irrigation, Water Power and Domestic Water Supply," a work on dams, of 600 quarto pages, published by John Wiley & Sons, 1908 (Revised and Enlarged), a stan- dard work on this subject, being the especial author- ity on the use of sluicing in dam construction. Also author of numerous contributions to engineering so- cieties, two of which won the Thos. Pitch Rowland prize in the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has written various reports for the U. S. Geological Survey, published at different times in public docu- ments, as well as sundry reports on irrigation for the State of California. He is a charter member of the California Club of Los Angeles and a member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles. He came to California in 1873 from Colorado, and took perma- nent residence in Los Angeles in 1893. He is count- ed one of the foremost engineers in the world. I20 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY WILLIAM H. HALL NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 121 ALL, WILLIAM HAMMOND, Con- sulting and Constructing Engi- neer, San Francisco, California, was born In Hagerstown, Mary- land, February 12, 1846, the son of John Buchanan Hall and Anna Maria (Hammond) Hall. In 1870, at San Fran- cisco, he married Emma Kate Fitzhugh, of the dis- tinguished Southern family of that name. They have three daughters, Anna Hammond, Margaret Fitzhugh and Katharine Buchanan Hall. Arriving in California at the age of seven, Mr. Hall's school-room education was confined to a private academy, from 1858 to 1865, under the tu- telage of an Episcopal clergyman. It was intended that he should enter the West Point Military Academy, and his schooling was directed to that end, but the outbreak of the Civil War caused his parents to abandon these plans. Shortly after the close of the war he became a computer and draughtsman in the office of Col. R. S. Williamson of the U. S. Engineer Corps. His first work under Col. Williamson in the field was as an assistant in the barometrical meas- uring of the snow-clad peaks in Oregon. He next became a rod-man and subsequently a surveyor on topographic service for fortification purposes, un- der the U. S. Board of Engineers for the Pacific Coast. He was also a draughtsman in the same employ. Therein he participated as field engineer, computer and draughtsman in the surveys of lo- calities for the purposes of fortification, light- houses, harbors of refuge and navigation. These ranged from San Diego Harbor to and including Neah Bay, the southernmost and northernmost harbors then on the Pacific Coast (1866-1870). In this period he was also on the surveys of the rapids of the upper Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon, for the improvement of navigation; and these activities were supplemented by his topo- graphic contouring of the peninsula of San Fran- cisco, especially the Presidio Reservation and Point Lobos, again for fortifications, as well as by his hydrographic work for the harbors of San Diego and San Francisco. In August, 1870, Mr. Hall was awarded the con- tract, by the first Board of Park Commissioners of San Francisco, for the topographic survey of the Golden Gate Park Reservation. In August, 1871, after his plans had been ac- cepted by the Commission, he was appointed En- gineer and Superintendent of ParKs, and in this capacity, until 1876, reclaimed the sand wastes and planned and improved Golden Gate Park. The next two years, in the joint employ of the Bank of Cali- fornia and the then Nevada Bank, he was in charge, as engineer, of extensive land and water properties in the San Joaquin Valley, including the canals which have since made Fresno famous. Under an act of Legislature providing for investi- gation of problems of irrigation, river improvement, reclamation and disposal of mining debris, Gover- nor William Irwin, in May, 1878, appointed Mr. Hall first State Engineer of California. He was four times reappointed to this office and served until his resignation in February, 1889. It is only just to say that the extensive irrigation, water storage and river and reclamation surveys and examinations made by the State Engineering Department under his supervision have constituted the basis of work and reports of a number of State and other authori- ties since that time, who have received credit there- for. The State Engineer's reports of that period, which were the first systematic studies of the sub- ject in this country, have also served as guides for many reports in later years. In March, 1889, Mr. Hall was appointed Supervis- ing Engineer of the United States Irrigation Investi- gation (the predecessor of the United States Recla- mation Service) for all the region west of the Rocky Mountains, and served until the end of June, 1890. Therein he was one of the three engineers who or- ganized and managed the first United States Gov- ernment irrigation investigation. Here, too, the methods and reports of those years have shaped similar work ever since. From July, 1890, to June, 1896, while in private practice as a civil engineer, hp was in charge of important irrigation and water supply work in the southern and central parts of California and in the State of Wash- ington. The next step in Mr. Hall's progression was to Europe and South Africa, in 1896. Until 1898 he was in this latter country, and in London, acting as Consulting Engineer on Irrigation and Water Works. During this period he was in charge of the construction of a large plant for supplying water to the principal mines about Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, for the Cecil Rhodes and Werner Beit Syndicate. Under a contract with the Com- missioner of Public Works of the Cape Colo- nial Government he made an extended report on irrigation and drafted a new water and irrigation law. Zest was given to his stay in this country by the unique experience of having to serve pro- fessionally and intimately two warring factions at daggers' points with each other — in other words, to make a report on irrigation in Rhodesia, to the Rt. Hon. Cecil Rhodes, and on the other hand, an examination for water storage for irrigation for President Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic. The year 1899 finds Mr. Hall in the Russian Em- pire. Here he made examinations and reports on irrigation and great canal projects in the Russian Transcaucasus and in Central Asia to the Minister of Agriculture, M. Yermoloff, and on similar works in the Merve Oasis, to the minister in charge of the Imperial Estates, Prince Viasemski, He returned to California in 1900, where until the present time he has been engaged chiefly in the management of properties for investment and development. In this connection he acquired con- trol of properties in the Lake Eleanor and Cherry Creek water sheds, which have since been selected by the city of San Francisco for a water supply. Mr. Hall has confined his membership ,to the American society of Civil Engineers, in which he is the holder of the Norman Medal, and to the Pa- cific-Union Club, from which he resigned when he went abroad in 1896. 122 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ELMER E. COLE OLE, ELMER E., Real Estate, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in New Hampshire, December 21, 1863. He is the son of H. L. Cole and Emily (Phipps) Cole. He mar- ried Laura M. Mayhew at Minne- apolis, Minn., in 1893, and to them have been born two sons, Lloyd and Harold Cole. Mr. Cole attended the public schools of Port- land, Maine, and Boston, Mass., until he was six- teen years old. At the age of eighteen he was a traveling salesman for a Boston cutlery company, and continued in that capacity until he was twenty- three years of age, when he resigned and went to Minneapolis, embarking in the real estate business. He dealt principally in farming and ranch lands and for thirteen years was an important factor In developing that section. During these thirteen years he met with both success and reverses, but he kept at it and subsequently achieved a lasting success. In 1900 he sold his interests in the Northwest and moved to Los Angeles. He immediately opened brokerage offices, dealing in stocks, bonds and min- ing properties. He remained at this occupation until 1905, when he gave up the stock and bond end of his business and confined himself to real estate and lands. He holds extensive mining in- terests, extending from Northern California to Old Mexico. Since engaging in the rf al estate business in Los Angeles, Mr. Cole has handled some large deals in acreage tracts, among them being the sale of 1500 acres south of Playa del Rey, California. He deals extensively in city property and is the owner of some of the most valuable real estate in the business center of Los Angeles. He formerly was a member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Realty Board, Masons, Los Angeles Automobile Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Gamut Club and California Club of Los Angeles. M. S. HELLMAN HELLMAN, MAURICE S., banker, Ki Los Angeles, Cal., was born in that 5 city, September 3, 1864. He is the son of the late Samuel Hellman and Adelaide (Adler) Hellman, his family being identified with the business and financial history of Los Angeles for many years. He married Alice Schwarzschild, at San Francisco, Cal., July 16, 1889, and to them there have been born three children, Melville S., Lucile S. and S. Jack Hellman. Mr. Hellman was educated in the schools of his native city and graduated from high school, with an exceptional record, in 1880. Two years after he left school he went into the stationery business with his father, and at the end of three years, when his father decided to give up the business, he, with a partner named Stassforth, bought the business and continued it under the firm name of the Hellman-Stassforth Company This association existed up to 189t, when Mr. Hell man sold out his interest and went into the bond brokerage business with J. P. Sartori. One year after this he was elected vice presi- dent of the Security Savings Bank, and he gave up all outside business connections to devote himself exclusively to banking. He has remained vice presi- dent of the bank down to date and in addition is in- terested in other banking institutions, holding the vice presidency and directorship of the Title Insur- ance and Trust Company. In keeping with the his- tory of his family, Mr. Hellman has become one of the leading bankers of Los Angeles and is an im- portant factor in the development of that city. He takes an active interest In the public affairs of Los Angeles. He is also an ardent booster and belongs to most of the civic clubs and improvement associations. He is a member of the Concordia Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 123 AGNER, JAMES R. H., real estate, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Detroit, Michigan, September 22, 1870. His father was Robert Wag- ner and his mother Mary -Leicester (Hornibrook) Wagner. On November 4, 1894, he married Mabel E. Monahan, at Cleveland, Ohio. To them were born Arline Leicester, Harriet Handy and Mary Leices- ter Wagner. Mr. Wagner's educa- tion was obtained in the Cass School of Detroit. His first employment as a boy was with the American Exchange Na- tional Bank of Detroit, where he acted in the ca- pacity of messenger for the years 1886 and 1887. During the succeeding two years he was receiv- ing teller and individual bookkeeper in the Penin- sular Savings Bank of Detroit. Between the years 1890 and 1894 he was traveling salesman for a Detroit tobacco firm. He worked for the wholesale tobacco house of R. Wagner & Co., and ably fitted himself for an active career with the largest tobacco institu- tion in the world. In 1895 he started in New York City with the American Tobacco Co. as a retail sales- man. His first efforts, in three months, at- tracted attention and he was sent to Boston. In six months he was stationed at Philadel- phia, doing special work for the fine smok- ing department of the corporation. In 1897 he was sent to Nashville, Tenn., to supervise the States of Mississippi, Ala- bama and Tennessee. His work covered largely the Old Virginia Cheroot depart- ment. With a year of success in the South he was transferred to Virginia and North Carolina in order to take charge of the cheap smoking and cheroots. In 1899 he was called to New York and given charge of a national campaign on a new brand of cheroots. This work covered the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. A year later the Ameri- can Tobacco Co. acquired the Egyptian JAS. R. H. WAGNER Deities cigarette factory, and Mr. Wagner was given charge of the sales in all the East- ern States. In 1901, after many years in the tobacco business, Mr. Wagner gave it up to go with the New York "Commercial," one of the oldest daily financial papers in America. His initial business trip for this newspaper was one which carried him over the entire United States, and eventually to Los Angeles. In that city he expected to spend only a short time, but one month's stay convinced him that there was no other place on earth for him. This was about April 1, 1901, at a time when Southern California was in the height of its floral beauty and growth. He had -just arrived from the north, where the blizzards and snowstorms were raging. He imme- diately sent his family word to pack and come to California. Mr. Wagner associat- ed himself with the Wil- liam R. Staats Co. of Pas- adena for one year. From there he went to Santa Barbara and organized the Santa Barbara Realty & Trust Co. His asso- ciates there were Harri- son T. Kendall and D. T. Perkins of the Pot- ter Hotel Co. ; George Edwards, president of the Commercial Bank of Santa Barbara, and William R. Staats of Pasadena. Outside of the general real estate business in Santa Barbara he secured a franchise for the Home Telephone Co. and was instrumen- tal in building the plant. He was an oiificer of that organization for two years. In 1905 R. A. Rowan prevailed upon him to handle Venice of America, then in the infancy of its organization. He became the general agent in the organization of that resort, and since that time has been prominently identified in the realty business of So. Cal. He has han- dled with success Venice of America, Venice Annex, Normandy Hill, Florencita Park, the Cudahy Ranch, Bell Flower Acres and the Owens Valley Lands. Mr. Wagner is second vice president L. A. Realty Board ; member, Chamber of Commerce and California Club. 124 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ITTINGER, GEORGE E., retired banker, of Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 28, 1868. His father was George W. Bittinger, a wholesale grocer of Chicago, and his mother Sarah Julie (Pestana) Bittinger. He was married in Riverside, California, in 1892, to Laura Pranken- heimer. They have one child, Merritt A. Bittinger. Mr. Bittinger was educated in the public schools of Chicago, and was trained for business life in the Jackson- ville (Illinois) Business Col- lege, graduating from there in 1885. The next year he moved to California and located at Riverside. His first employ- ment there was in the bank of the old Riverside Banking Company, and he remained with that concern in various positions until 1893, when he resigned to go with the First National Bank of Riverside. Within two years he was made cashier of the bank, and during the next eight years he brought the bank up to a position which made it one of the strongest banks in the State outside of the two principal cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Although he never sought or accepted public office, Mr. Bittinger, an ardent Republi- can, took an active interest in the affairs of his party during his stay in Riverside and served at various times on the County and City Central Committees. He was on the Central Committee during the two McKinley campaigns, 1896-1900, and in both in- stances Riverside polled a large majority for the martyr President. Mr. Bittinger remained Cashier of the Riverside bank until 1903, when, his record having attracted attention, he was offered the position of Cashier of the Los Angeles National Bank. He accepted and, with seventeen years of banking experience to his credit, he began his duties. He continued as Cashier until the consolidation of his bank with the First National of Los Angeles. Mr. Bittinger was one of the principal factors in this merger, which involved the amalgamation of approximately $20,000,000 in assets. His part in this transaction placed him among the leaders of the financial world in Los Angeles and he was made Vice Presi- dent and Director of the new institution. In February, 1910, after having followed the banking business for twenty-four years, Mr. Bit- GEO. E. BITTINGER linger resigned the Vice Presidency of the First National in order to devote himself to his private interests, which by this time were extensive. Mr. Bittinger is heavily interested in a variety of substantial projects in Northern California and Oregon, and is aiding largely in the development of the latter State. His interests include lumber, land, etc. In addition to his association with the First National Bank, Mr. Bittinger is also interested in the Equitable Savings Bank of Los Angeles, and up to a short time ago was heavily interested and an officer In the Weed Lumber Company, the Klamath Development Company and the California Northeastern Railway Com- pany, three affiliated Oregon enterprises. He disposed of his inter- ests in them, the railroad company being sold to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Bittinger is one of the progressive type of busi- ness men, but he is also interested in matters other than business. While he was a resident of the city of Riverside he was a Trustee of the Car- negie Library Board of that place, and also of the Arch- a e o 1 o g i c a 1 Institute of America. He is a member of the Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce, and for two years was on its Board of Directors. He was also Chairman, during that period, of the Finance Committee, which has charge of all the funds of the organization, and was a member of the committee which had in charge the entertain- ment of President Taft when he visited Los Angeles in 1909. He also served on other committees which had in charge improvement projects fostered by the Chamber of Commerce and intended to better Los Angeles. He is prominent in Southern California lodge circles and is one of the leading Masons of the section. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Mystic Shriner and a Knight Templar. Mr. Bittinger is fond of outdoor life and is an enthusiastic golfer. He is also a member of the California Club, the Union League Club and the Annandale Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 125 RANK, NATHAN H., Attor- ney, was born in San Francis- co, California, June 3, 1858, the son of Jacob Frank and Eva (Meyer) Frank. His pa- ternal ancestors were Bavarian Jews and his mother is a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Patterson at San Francisco, September 19, 1881, and they are the parents of five sons and a daughter. Four of the children, including the daughter, were at col- lege at the same time, and one son, Irving H. Frank, is now associated with his father in law practice. The public schools of Suisun, Solano County, from 1863 to 1873, and then a private course un- der the principal, C. W. Childs, prepared him for the University of Califor- na, from which he was graduated in 1877 a Ph. B. Two years later he took the degree of L. L. B. from the Columbia Law College of New York, and after waiting a month to become of age he was ad- mitted to the bar of New York. On his return to San Francisco he associated himself with the firm of Wheaton & Scrivner, patent lawyers, with whom he remained until 1881. He then went to New Mexico to scan the field there. Dis- appointed in the outlook, he returned to San Francisco. Shortly after his second re- turn he entered the office of Milton Andros. After a brief term in a clerical capacity he be- came the partner of Mr. Andros, under the firm name of Andros & Frank, which part- nership lasted until 1900. Mr. Frank's practice, though of a general nature, has been chiefly in maritime and in- surance law and in the Federal courts. In the course thereof he has had many cases of public interest and handled practically all the causes on this coast arising out of seizure, as prize, of American vessels and cargoes during the Russo-Japanese War. Important among these is his successful attempt to establish a principle differing from that apparently set- tled by the English law during the Napoleon- NATHAN H. FRANK ic wars. This law held that a vessel insured against "capture, seizure and detention" was not covered for a loss due to condemnation for carrying false papers. From time imme- morial, however, it had been the practice of vessels engaged in blockade running to carry false papers to enable the vessels to accom- plish their purpose, and the policy gave them the liberty of running the block- ade. But in this case counsel for the insurance company contended that as the steamer was cov- ered by an English policy the English law should govern. Testimony of two of the ablest English barristers, one of whom has since been elevated to the bench of the High Court of Justice of Eng- land, was taken to prove that the loss was not cov- ered by the policy. Mr. Frank, however, took the position that everything usual and customary in accomplishing the voyage was covered by the insur- ance, and hence condem- nation for carrying false papers was within the policy. His contention sustained by the United States Circuit Court and subsequently by the Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, discountenanced the old English law. Another achievement especially note- worthy is his establishment of the present standard form of charter-party and bill of lading necessitated by the hazardous trade to Alaska, ships for which, at the beginning of the gold excitement, hailed from San Fran- cisco but were chartered by Seattle firms. During his extensive experience he has become the attorney for a large variety of companies and interests, which rely upon him with the utmost confidence. Among these are the Barneson-Hibbard Co., J. D. Spreck- els and Bros. Co., Oceanic Steamship Co., the Charles Nelson Co., Robert Dollar S. S. Co., Los Alamos Oil and Development Co., the Alaska Exploration Co., and for many years, as a member of the firm of Andros & Frank, the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Mr. Frank has not been very active in club life, though he is a member of several. 126 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ■■ ^^^^^^^^B^< . l^H I^S ^^^^■■HIK ^^^H pp* ^^^^^^H ^B 1 ^H 1 ■ ^^^^^^ ^ ^S^^^BH^^ 1 1 ^^y^;-. ^B ^^^^^^K^^ Jp j/^ flRHK '"''A In 1 ' ~?JjS^^^| ^3 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^1 I^E P^^H ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^B ^^^^^^^^2 .'^ g'^Vjj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^BI E. O. LINDBLOM NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 127 INDBLOM, ERIK OLOF, President of the Swedish-American Bank of San Francisco, was born at Da- larna, Sweden, June 27, 1857, the son of Olof Lindblom and Brita (Olofson) Lindblom. His father was a school teacher of that place, which, one of the most rugged and barren on the face of the habitable globe, fostered a hardy race, of which Erik Lindblom has proved himself to be a worthy sample. He was married in San Francisco, June 1, 1903, to Miss Hanna Sadie Ulrika Sparman, and by a former marriage Is the father of Brita and Olof Lindblom. He attended the Hede public school in Sweden, and was graduated therefrom in 1871. During the next four years he was intermittently a pupil at the London Polytechnic School of the Y. M. C. A., while working in that city at the trade of tailor, which he had learned. After spending five and a half years in London and traveling over a considerable part of Europe, he sailed for America, arriving in New York in 1886. Here he again worked at his trade until 1888, when he moved to Butte City, Montana, where he continued the same occupation and at the same time became interested in gravel min- ing. On September 15, 1893, he reached San Fran- cisco, resumed his trade, subsequently moving to Oakland and opening an establishment of his own. During these years his interest in mining was growing, stimulated by studying, reading, attend- ing Professor George Davidson's lectures on Alaska and by the tales of gold discoveries. On April 27, 1898, his imagination still further fired by the sub- stantially backed reports of the new "gold fields" of Alaska, he abandoned the weary grind of his trade and shipped before the mast in the bark Alaska, commanded by Captain Cogan. His experi- ences in the Northwest, which taxed his grit and hardy constitution to the utmost, and where he made one of the most wonderful discoveries of gold in the history of the precious metals, form, per- haps, the most romantic chapter in the story of a very remarkable life. Landing on the shore of Grantley Harbor, July 5, 1898, whither Captain Cogan had sent him and some other sailors for fresh water, he determined to leave the vessel and try to reach Golovln Bay, where he knew there was a mission and trading post. He was without food and had no conception of the difficulties to be encountered in that sea- son of floods. Acting on the advice of a prospec- tor whom he chanced to meet, he started back for Port Clarence, in the hope of finding that the bark had sailed. When he came within sight of the harbor he saw the vessel riding at anchor and con eluded that his presence thereon was still desired. From this critical situation, however, he was aided to escape by an Eskimo chief, Promarshuk, who took him in his boat made of walrus hide, covered him with foul-smelling skins, and paddled him within touching distance of the Alaska. Boarding the bark, the chief, with five dollars Mr. Lindblom had given him for the purpose, bought a dozen sea biscuits, returned to his boat and slipped out of the harbor, then away to free- dom from Captain Cogan's kind of hospitality. Stopping at the mouth of the Egoshoruk River, now known as Snake River, the spot where Nome is situated, Mr. Lindblom prospected, and on the bar at the mouth of Dry Creek found colors. Ar- riving July 27, with his Eskimo pilot, at Dexter's trading station on Golovin Bay, Mr. Lindblom told the trader of his discovery. Dexter wished to send him back on a prospecting trip, but he preferred the work offered him by N. O. Hultberg, the mis- sionary of the station. He first prospected in this region on Ophir Creek. Meeting subsequently with John Brynteson and Jafet Lindeberg, the former of whom, after Lindblom's discovery, had also found prospects in what is now known as the Nome country, he joined forces with them, and in an old scow rigged for the occasion the three set out on a 100-mile sea voyage through stormy weather for the Snake River. On September 15, 1898, they landed at the mouth and began prospecting. One week later they made discoveries and locations on Anvil Creek. Later they panned about fifty dol- lars in gold dust, and, putting it in shotgun shells, returned to Golovin Bay. By the beginning of win- ter, acting on expert advice, they had gone back to the Nome district and measured and staked their claims in compliance with the law of the land. Within three days' panning in Snow Gulch and Anvil Creek the three partners extracted more than $1800 worth of gold dust. Mr. Lindblom thus not only laid the foundation for the fortune which good judgment and management has since swelled to generous proportions, but was thereby the origi- nal discoverer of the Nome gold fields. He returned to California in 1899 and invested in real estate. Going to Mexico in 1901 he became Interested in electric light, water and telephone development, bought out Thomas Lane and secured absolute control of the Parral Electric, Water and Telephone Company of Parral, Mexico. Gradually he enlarged his real estate, mining and other oper- ations, and together with Captain Matson and oth- ers, in 1908, established the Swedish-American Bank, which in 1910 amalgamated with the Inter- national Banking Corporation. Mr. Lindblom is today president and sole owner of the French Gulch Mining Co., Greeneville Min- ing Co., Parral Electric, Water and Telephone Co., president of the Swedish-American Bank of San Francisco, vice president of the Pioneer Mining Co. of Nome, Alaska; a member of the advisory board of the International Banking Corporation, and a director of the Davidson-Ward Lumber Co. and of the Claremont Hotel Co. His clubs and as- sociations are: The Swedish Club, of Seattle; Arc- tic, of Seattle (life member); Olympic, Swedish Society of S. F. (life member), B. P. O. E. No. 171 (life member), Islam Temple, Shriners (life mem- ber), Odin Lodge, I. O. O. F. No. 393; Balder Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 393 (life member); King Solo- mon's Chapter No. 95, R. A. M. (life member); Cal- ifornia Commandery No. 1, K. T. (life member) ; Cal. Consistory No. 5 (life member), and Califor- nia Chapter No. 183, O. E. S. (life member) He is a shrewd, but quiet and modest personality, in no way spoiled by his success in life. 128 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ECKETT, DR. WESLEY WILBUR, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born in Portland, Oregon, May 31, 1857. He is a son of Lemuel D. Beckett, the first Justice of Peace of Portland, Oregon, and a pioneer of that State, and Sarah S. (Chew) Beckett. On January 1, 1882, he married Iowa Archer at San Luis Obispo, Cali- fornia, there bemg two sons as a result of the union : Wilbur Archer and Francis H. Beckett. Dr. Beckett was edu- cated in the public schools of California, and at a later period taught school in San Luis Obis- po County, California, for over six years. He grad- uated from the Los An- geles Medical Depart- ment of the University of California, April 11, 1888, receiving the de- gree of M. D. He then studied in New York for a period of one year, tak- ing post graduate work at the Post Graduate Hospital of that city. After completing his medical education. Dr. Beckett returned to Los Angeles, where he has practiced for a period of over twenty-two years. His medical achievements follow one after another, and today his accomplishments in the medical and scientific world have reached a point where Dr. Beckett is recog- nized as a man of national repute. His re- searches in the field of surgery and materia medica have placed him among the foremost physicians in the country. Dr. Beckett's principal work has been in the field of surgery, although he has main- tained a general practice since he first opened his offices. During his years of practice he has been a constant student and has taken an active part in the medical history of South- ern California. He is noted for his readiness to devote his time to the needy poor, having done brilliant work for many poor people. His work in the field of charity deserves much praise. Not only in the medical world, but DR. W civic affairs as well, has Dr. Beckett played a leading role during the last twenty years. In a business way he is associated with a number of influential companies of Los An- geles and holds directorships in a number of organizations. He is not only an executive director, but is also medical director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, is treasurer and director of the California Hos- pital and is a director in the following organiza- tions : Pacific Mutual Indemnity Company, Cit- izens' Trust and Savings Bank, Seaside Water Company, Orwood Land Company and the San Pedro Water Company. He is a member of and ex-president of the following professional so- cieties : California State Medical Society, South- ern California Medical Society, Los Angeles County Medical Society, and the Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological Society, and is a member of the American Medical Association and the Pa- cific Association of Rail- way Surgeons. During the years 1901 and 1902 he served as a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Health. On May 12, 1911, Dr. Beckett was ap- pointed by President Taft First Lieutenant of the Medical Relief Corps of the United States Army. This position will not become an active office unless the United States is at war or unless some deadly plague gets a hold in the army, but at the same time it is a unique distinction, approved by the Presi- dent of the United States and passed through the Senate. Dr. Beckett is also Professor of Gynecol- ogy and Surgery of the Los Angeles Medical Department of the University of California. He is a trustee of the University of Southern California and is active in educational circles. His work is not limited to any field, but is known to every progressive movement for the advancement of his community. He is a member of the California, Federation and LTnion League Clubs of Los Angeles and of in the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST i2g County ATCH, PHILANDER ELLS- WORTH, banker, president of the National Bank of Long Beach, Long Beach, Cal., was born at New Preston, Litch- Connecticut, on July 25, field 186L His father was John Hatch and his mother was Diana L. (Canfield) Hatch. Mr. Hatch was married on November 7, 1883, to Miss Elouise C. Norton in Guilford, Conn. They have two children, John Ellsworth and Eleanor Norton Hatch. After attending the public schools of New Milford until 1875, Mr. Hatch went to Whittle- sey's academy. New Pres- ton, Conn., where he studied for two years, taking a preparatory course. From there he went to the Yale Busi- ness College, which he at- tended until 1879, when he graduated with high honors. His first work was done in July, 1879, soon he had graduated Yale Business Col- Mr.. Hatch then connected himself with the firm of Sargant & Co. of New Haven, Conn., where he acted as entry and discount clerk, which position he held for two years. The next year he spent with Peck & Bishop, also of New Haven, where he held the position of bookkeeper. Leaving Peck & Bishop, he accepted a position as bookkeeper and cashier with H. B. Armstrong & Co. He retained this position for five years, resigning to go to Kenesaw, Neb. Arriving at Kenesaw he immediately ac- cepted the position of cashier of the Kenesaw Exchange Bank. This was in 1887, and Mr. Hatch retained the same position with this bank until October, 1894, when he removed direct to Long Beach, where he has resided since that time. After settling in Long Beach, and thor- oughly studying the needs of the city, he or- ganized the Bank of Long Beach and became its first cashier in April, 1896. He retained this position for six years, when the bank of Long Beach was converted into the National after from lege. P. E. HATCH Bank of Long Beach in 1902. In 1907 Mr. Hatch became the vice president of this bank, and in 1908 he was elected its president. In 1901 he organized the Long Beach Savings Bank. This institution is affiliated with the National Bank of Long Beach and Mr. Hatch is its vice president and manager. In 1905 he organized the Bank of Wil- mington, and was the president of the insti- tution for the follow- ing three years. About this time the bank was nationalized and Mr. Hatch sold all his inter- ests therein. He became the presi- dent of the Long Beach Consolidated Gas Co. in 1910, when the Long Beach Gas Co and Inner Harbor consolidated. In addition to the above Mr. Hatch is a member of many other leading enterprises, among which are the Western Steam Naviga- tion Co., of which he is secretary and treasurer; the Long Beach Sash & Door Co., of which he is director, and of the Mu- tual Building Loan Asso- ciation, of which he is treasurer. He is also a very large realty owner. In 1894, when Mr. Hatch first settled in Long Beach, the city, in a commercial way, was still in its infancy. Since that period vast changes have taken place. Manufacturing and ship- building establishments have located there, magnificent oflfice, hotel and residence struc- tures have gone up until Long Beach is to- day a modern, prosperous city, built on a firm foundation. In all of this vast development work Mr. Hatch has been a leading spirit, devoting a great deal of time and capital to furthering all sound projects that were calculated to be of the greatest good to the city and commu- nity in general. Mr. Hatch is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce and the Long Beach Cham- ber of Commerce, of which latter he has been a member for twelve years and its presi- dent for ten years. 130 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY TO NDERSON, J. CRAMPTON, General Manager of the American Petroleum and American Oilfields Compa- nies, Los Angeles, California, was born October 26, 1877, at Mason, Texas. He is the son of Elbridge T. and Sarah J. Anderson. He married Daysie M. Bet- zold in Los Angeles on June 17, 1899. While Mr. Anderson was still a youth, he moved from Texas to Phoenix, Arizona. A few years later he went to Los Angeles, where he has ever since been iden- tified prominently with enterprises for the devel- opment of the matchless resources of the great Southwest. In the remote locality in which his boy- hood was passed, he had but limited educational advantages and he en- tered upon his business career with practically no capital but a sound business head. His early business ventures were in the re- munerative field of min- ing. His interests were scattered over California, Oregon, Nevada and Ari- zona, meeting with sue- t cess in his numerous un- dertakings. In the course of a few years he became an authority on mining. From mining for metals it was but a step to mining for oil, and Mr. Anderson, perceiv- ing early the possibilities of California's great petroleum industry, enrolled himself with the constructive forces engaged in developing it. He made a deep study of petroleum resources and conditions in California, at a time when the possibilities of the great industry were still largely locked up in the secret depths of the earth. In the course of his association with several oil producing corporations, he gained proficiency in the details of the oil business, and he sought and won a place among the men who are now doing the things that have drawn the eyes of the world upon California's oil fields. The American Petroleum Company, a $15,000,000 corporation, was launched in Feb- ruary, 1908, by Edward L. Doheny, Dr. Nor- C. ANDERSON man Bridge and Mr. Anderson. That com- pany today is one of the largest producers of petroleum in California, and Mr. Anderson is its Vice President as well as General Man- ager. The success of the American Petroleum Company forms one of the bright chapters of the history of California oil. It had a tremen- dous influence for further development, and to none did it appeal more eifectively than to the men who had accom- plished that success. The direct and inevitable re- sult was the organization of another corporation, The American Oilfields Company, with a capitali- zation of $25,000,000, to operate along the lines of its highly prosperous predecessor. Associated .with Mr. Doheny, Dr. Bridge and Mr. Anderson, in the formation of this latter company, in Febru- ary, 1910, were C. A. Can- field, Thomas A. O'Don- nell, J. M. Danziger, L. A. McCray and E. S. Gos- ney. The American Oil- fields Company has dupli-, cated the splendid results of the American Petrole- um Company. Both cor- porations have steadily coined the petroleum of the San Joaquin Valley into gold at a rate that has turned a total of $3,000,000 divi- dends into the hands of the stockholders. In contemplating such results, Mr. An- derson may do so with the satisfaction of having been an active factor in producing them. From his Los Angeles office, as General Manager of both these companies, he directs the details of their activities where their der- ricks rise like forests on the plains and hills of Midway and Coalinga. In addition to carrying the tremendous responsibilities that he assumes in connec- tion with the management of these two great companies, he is the President of the Midland Oil Company in the Midway field, and is also General Manager of the Niles Lease Oil Company in the Salt Lake field. He is active in Los Angeles civic affairs, but does not hold any club memberships. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 131 HESEBROUGH, ARTHUR SEWALL (Bates & Chese- brough), Shipping and Com- mission, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, was born in Oakland, September 23, 1877, the son of Andronicus Chesebrough and Edith (Saunders) Chese- brough. Of New England descent, with English ancestry on both sides of the house, wherein his forbear. Cap- tain Robert Chesebrough, was a conspicuous mem- ber, he inherits the sturdy characteristics, mentally and physically, which have enabled him to win at a comparatively early age a notable prominence in the business world. Mr. Chesebrough was married in San Francisco, January 18, 1911, to Miss Elizabeth N e w h a 1 1, daughter of William Mayo Newhall, a son of one of the pioneer mer- chants of the city. His first schooling was provided by the Pacific Heights Grammar School of San Francisco. From there he entered the Low- ell High School, and in 1897 was graduated into the University of Califor- nia, which he left in 1899. While there he played an active part in the fraternity and athletic life of the place, as a member of the Chi Phi, the Theta Nu Epsilon, the Skull and Keys and the 'Varsity Nine. For several years following his departure from the University he made use of what scientific knowledge he had acquired there in the mines of Amador, Calaveras and Mariposa Counties, gaining a practical experience that led to a trip to Korea in the interests of the Oriental Consolidated Mining Company. Two years of the Orient evidently sufficed for him, for he returned to San Francisco and entered the shipping and commission firm of Wil- liams, Dimond & Co. With this corporation he remained until 1907, when he severed his connection therewith to become a partner of the combination upon which he is at present concentrating his commercial energies. Since the formation of this thriving firm Mr. Chesebrough has been so active therein A. S. CHESEBROUGH that any sketch of its rapid development must necessarily include him. His connection therewith he naturally regards as the most important part of his business life. Largely through his own energetic efifoits the business has gone ahead with such leaps and bounds as to attract the attention of everyone inter- ested in the expansion of our commerce. Its progress reminds one of the amazing upbuild- ing of the new San Fran- cisco, and symbolizes the spirit that inspired that marvel of modern push. The firm first started with the transportation of merchandise in sailing ships from San Francisco to New York, the vessels returning with coal. West- bound cargo was soon added, a branch opened in Phialdelphia and the bus- iness so expanded as to warrant the use of tramp steamers operated via the Straits of Magellan. This was, in fact, the first tramp steamship service around Cape Horn. But not content with this success, the young progressives began to reach out for the trade via the Isthmus of Pan- ama, to compete with the Pacific Mail Company. After numerous negotia- tions with the Secretary of War and the of- ficials of the Panama Railroad Company, the firm was granted the through-billing privi- lege, in September, 1907, and on the 1st of October inaugurated the service. This has met with gratifying success, as indicated by the statement that during the first month of the service and "in the face of numerous ob- stacles and delay, occasioned by inexperience and the newness of the service, they cleared from San Francisco 10,000 tons, which may be expressed, in the way of comparison, as 25 per cent more tonnage in one month than the Pacific Mail Steamship company car- ried during the whole year that they started in business. This service has been recently supplemented by one from the Isthmus to New Orleans, which has developed to propor- tions highly encouraging to all concerned. It is believed that the Panama Canal will give it an even greater importance commercially. 132 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OTT, JOHN GRIFFIN, At- torney-at-Law (Mott & Dil- lon), Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in that city August 3, 1874, the son of Thomas Mott and Ascension (Sepulveda) Mott. He married Lila Jean Fairchild at Los Angeles, February 23, 1905. Mr. Mott, member of a devout Catholic family, received his pri- mary education in St. Vincent's College of Los Angeles, and later re- ceived the degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Laws from Notre Dame University, where he was a student during the years 1895 and 1896. From the In- diana institution he went to the Catholic Univer- sity of America at Wash- ington, D. C, and there received the degree of Master of Laws. Bishop Conaty, now head of the diocese of Los Angeles, was rector of the univer- sity at that time, having been appointed by Pope Leo XIII about the time that Mr. Mott became a student. Mr. Mott returned to Los Angeles immediately upon the conclusion of his studies and began the practice of his pro- fession. After approximately four years in offices by himself, he formed a partnership with R. J. Dillon, which has continued down to date. Mr. Mott has made a specialty of corporation and probate law and during his many years of practice has figured in some notable cases. He is intensely interested in various movements for the upbviilding of Los An- geles and vicinity and was one of the prin- cipal factors in the preliminary work of con- solidating Los Angeles and San Pedro, a move which made Los Angeles a seaport and placed it in line for the benefits prom- ised by the Panama Canal. He also figured prominently in the campaign for selling bonds for the Owens River Aqueduct, mod- ern work which revolutionized the water system of the city of Los Angeles. When JOHN G. MOTT ing the erection of a Federal building at Los Angeles, Mr. Mott was chosen by certain property owners desirous of providing the site for the building to look after their in- terests. In this capacity he made a notable fight, carrying his case to Washington. He appeared before the House of Representa- tives and Senate in his effort to win the prize his clients sought, and, following this, pre- sented his case at the White House itself. He finally persuaded Theo- dore Roosevelt, who was then President, of the justness of his cause and the executive signed the bill. These are only a few of the important matters in which Mr. Mott has figured, but they serve to show the character of work with which he has been identified. He is prominently identified with the Re- publican party of Cali- fornia and has performed telling service for that organization, having taken the stump for it in local and State cam- paigns. Mr. Mott is, by common consent, placed among the leading ora- tors of the West and some of his speeches are remembered as beautiful eloquence — perfect specimens of word architecture. His ad- dress at the farewell banquet to Bishop Montgomery is referred to as a magnificently blended tribute to the retiring prelate who had won the love and affection of the city wherein he was a spiritual guide. Mr. Mott's father, Hon. Thomas D. Mott, was one of the pioneers of California, who crossed the plains in 1849, and a man who took a leading part in the early develop- ment of the State. From him the subject of this sketch inherited his gift of oratory. Mr. Mott enjoys a high professional standing in Los Angeles and the State, and is a member of the Los Angeles and Los An- geles County Bar Associations. He is Past Exalted Ruler of the Los Angeles Lodge of Elks, member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Knights of Columbus, Crags the United States Government was consider- Country, Jonathan and California Clubs. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 133 ORUFP, FREDERICK LINCOLN, farmer, as he prefers to be known, was born at Clear Creek, Indiana, on the 31st of March, 1865. The son of William Henry Boruff and Margaret Eleanor Foster, he comes of sturdy fighting stock — a fact well illustrated by his own progressive career. His paternal grandfather was a general in the Finn army at the age of twenty-six, and his grandmother, who was a descendant of Sir Robert Nesbitt, was born on the battle ground of Ban- nockburn. Mr. Boruff mar- ried Mrs. K. C. Porter (for- merly Katie Anne Cay stile) at San Fernando, February 25, 1908. Mr. Boruff received all his actual school education in the public schools of In- diana and left the grammar school in 1881, at the age of sixteen, to make his own way in the world. Having inher- ited a strong taste for farm- ing, he immediately went to Iowa to scan the agricultural prospects there. The ab- sence of an encouraging out- look conspired with a some- what roving disposition to send him to New Mexico, where for two years he "punched cattle." In 1883 Mr. Boruff re- turned to Macedonia, Iowa, farmed for two more years and then entered the jour- nalistic field as owner and editor of the Botana Val- ley News, a non-partisan weekly devoted chiefly to Agricultural interests. During his editorship he de- veloped a keen interest in the political situation in Iowa and soon became an aggressive Democrat. Throwing all the weight of his influence into the cause, he materially aided his party to win the first State success the Democrats of Iowa had known for twenty-five years. Partly in reward for his eflorts he was appointed in 1886 Chief Deputy Auditor of Pottawattamie County under Ira F. Hendricks. Politics becoming distasteful to him, Mr. Boruff resigned his office and early in 1887 traveled for the Western Wheeled Scraper Company of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. During the next three years he covered the greater part of the United States, do- ing a large jobbing business and acquiring a knowledge of men and detail of which he subse- quently had occasion to avail himself. In July, 1890, Mr. Boruff went to Chicago and entered the real estate business, with offices in the old Lakeside Building. For ten years he was a successful realty operator, dealing largely in city and suburban property, and doing much to develop the latter. His interest in politics, and perhaps the hereditary love of a "good scrap," reviving he FRED L. BORUFF organized the Tammany Society of Chicago, and from disintegrated elements built a coherent, har- monious association of thirty-seven thousand mem- bers in twelve hundred precincts. During this time he became a warm personal friend of William Jen- nings Bryan, and also a prolific contributor on po- litical and allied subjects to many papers through- out the United States. The strong attraction that California and her agricultural and horticultural possibilities had long held for Mr. Boruff drew him from Chicago to this State in the fall of 1900. He first settled in Los An- geles, subsequently moving to San Fernando, where he today has a model farm and the largest private nursery in California. This property contains more than 700,000 stock trees, chiefly of or- anges, lemons and olives. On olive culture he is an enthu- siast, second to none in this part of the world. He has studied the subject in prac- tically all of its phases, his- toric, economic and botanic. He sees a wonderful future for the industry in Califor- nia, once the importance and feasibility of extensive olive culture are generally real- ized. To him the fertility of California's soil and the magic of her climate seem limitless in their power for good. He believes that there is no effective medica- ment that cannot either be found or produced in this State. He terms the latter the "Drug Store of the World," in the best sense of that therapeutic phrase, and cannot understand the slowness of many native sons to sense the virtues of their birth- place. However, he is not permitting himself to worry over their want of foresight and enthusiasm, but is devoting his own energies to the task of justi- fying his own boundless faith in his adopted State. He specializes in dry farming and has become an expert in this branch of agriculture, which prom- ises to revolutionize farming methods and make arid wastes productive fields. Mr. Boruff was a delegate to the Farmers' Na- tional Congress in 1891, is at present a member of the National Good Roads Congress, of the Cham- ber of Commerce of Los Angeles, and of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He is also a Mason, thirty- second degree, and was the youngest member of that order in Iowa. From 1901 to 1905 Mr. Boruff was Manager and Director of the Western Development Company; from 1902 to 1906 Manager and Director of the Por- ter Land and Water Company; is at present Secre- tary of the Serpe Brownstone Company and Presi- dent of the California Packing Case Company. 134 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 'GLURE, FRANK D., Attor- ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Fremont County, Iowa, July 11, 1871. He is the son of E. B. Mc- Clure and Harriet A. (Britton) McClure. He married Angie C. Nugent at Kokoka, Missouri, June 1, 1896. He was brought to Visalia, Cal., in 1884. He graduated from the Stockton Normal in 1891. After completing his course there he entered the Valparaiso, Indiana, University, where he re- ceived his degree as Bachelor of Science in 1894. He took up the study of the law at the same institution and re- ceived his LL.B. in the spring of 1896. His first independent venture was at Stockton, where he opened an of- fice in 1896. The follow- ing year he moved to Visalia, Tulare County, and at that place, he practiced his profession until 1900. There fol- lowed the Bakersfield oil boom and the rapid growth of that city, to which he moved his busi- ness and became ac- quainted with oil litiga- tions in all their many phases. He prac- ticed there until 1907, when he went to the larger opportunities offered by Los Angeles. His first location was in the Union Trust Building, but later he moved to the Douglas Building. He very quickly made himself acquainted with the business and legal fraternity, and in less than a year was appointed city attorney of Wilmington. It was while City Attorney of Wilming- ton that his labors have attracted the great- est public attention. Los Angeles, and what was then Wilmington and San Pedro, were fightifig for the development of the harbor. Locally the importance of the harbor was appreciated, but the national government knew little about it. There was an immense amount of work to be done, in the construc- tion of the harbor, and in the establishment of the harbor lines, and it could be done only with the help of Congress. There were F. D. McCLURE also factions which were against the develop- ment of the harbor. Attorney McClure worked hard and soon found himself in the midst of the fight. He was sent to Wash- ington as sole representative in 1908, and argued the case of the Los Angeles harbor be- fore the war department of the government. He succeeded in his efforts in having the harbor lines established, and the government is at the present time busier in the develop- ment of San Pedro and Wilmington harbors than in any other harbor in the country. He held his position as City Attorney of Wil- mington until the consoli- dation of 1909, when the entire harbor district be- came part of the City of Los Angeles. While at Wilmington he was not only City At- torney, but actively as- sisted in the dredging work. Meanwhile his private practice was maintained. He was chosen as the at- torney for the Consoli- dated Lumber Company. He still looks after the legal affairs of that com- pany. He is now a member of the law firm of Wood- ruff & McClure, general legal practitioners of Los Angeles. He specializes in corpora- tion, oil and mining law, aside from the general practice. While at Bakersfield he helped to organ- ize many of the oil companies, so that he became fully acquainted with the corpora- tion laws of California and the various states, and he took part in many of the im- portant trials in which the oil laws of the State of California were developed. He has represented clients before the Circuit Court of the United States on a number of occasions, and his office handles a great deal of legal business from outside the State. Mr. McClure is a member of the Lodge of Elks and a Mason, and he is also promi- nently identified with the various legal fraternities of the city and the State of California. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 135 URYEA, EDWIN, JR., Engineering (firm of Duryea, Haelil & Oilman), San Francisco, California, was bom in Craigville, Orange County, New York, July 12, 1862, the son of Edwin Duryea and Hannali (Rumsey) Duryea. His first paternal ancestor to reach this country, in 1675, was of Huguenot origin, while the Rumseys were English residents of the Isle of Guernsey. Mr. Duryea married Miss Roberta Vincent Taylor, in December, 1888, at Ithaca, New York, and five children have been born of the union, Robert, Margaret, Anne, Philip and Helen Duryea. Mr. Duryea had his first schooling in Craigville, in the district school, from 1866 to 1876. He was graduated in 1879 from the Chester Academy, and from Cornell University with the class of '83 and the degree of B. C. E. Soon thereafter he started, and from 1883 to 1885 was employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad, first as townsite and special sur- veyor, and later on the con- struction of a large bridge at Duluth, Minn. The following year, while engaged on a bridge to span the Missis- sippi River, near Burlington, Iowa, he rose from the posi- tion of transit man to the su- perintendency of the work. The next few years found him on the construction of costly bridges crossing the Missouri, Mississippi and the Ohio rivers, and involving difficult problems of foundation work, as well as "river control" and "day's labor" under the engineer's direction. In 1889 he shifted the scene of his operations to Kansas and Michigan, on railroad surveys and con- struction, and until 1891 was engineer of bridges and building for one thousand miles of railroad sys- tem in the latter State. His next move along the curve was to what his profession deems the impor- tant post of contractor's engineer, or superinten- dent. In this capacity he made surveys and de- signs for two large stockyards near Chicago, in- cluding plans for sewerage, water supply, harbors, etc., and subsequently was associated with the same firm on the change of the horse car line on Third avenue. New York city, to a cable system. Toward the close of this period, 1891-1895, he was contrac- tor's engineer for a $1,000,000 dam for the same city, and contractor's superintendent for other dams for the water supply of New York, in which work EDWIN DURYEA, JR he had charge of at least 400 men. From 1895 to 1900 Mr. Duryea was resident en- gineer at times on the Brooklyn end of the Wil- liamsburg suspension bridge over the East River, between New York and Brooklyn, and during the latter part of this period acted as assistant engineer on plans and estimates for a proposed bridge over the Hudson River at New York city. Among his notable achievements while in private practice may be mentioned his plans for foundation of Har- lem bridge, designs for rapid transit tunnel under Harlem river, and report to district attorney on safety of New York and Brooklyn suspen- sion bridge and on responsi- bility for neglect involved. In December, 1902, Mr. Duryea came to California as chief engineer for the Bay Cities Water Co., and has since been associated with this corporation and with its allied Interests. In this con- nection his work has been largely in the field of water supply and power transmis- sion; and his plans for the Santa Clara County water supply, his expert duties as engineer for San Francisco in the water rate suit with the Spring Valley Company, and his testimony for the New Liverpool Salt Com- pany in their famous suit for damages against the Canal Company of the Imperial Valley, wherein the judg- ment depended chiefly upon the engineer's opinion, and has since been affirmed by the Court of Ap- peals in favor of the plaintiff, are among the many factors contributing to the reputation which he brought to this coast. After the great fire of 1906 Mr. Duryea was a member of the "Committee of Forty" to advise on the rehabilitation of San Francisco. He was also chairman of the sub-committee on water sup- ply, and general chairman of the committee formed to report on the damage to structures. His latest big appointment is that of engineer in charge of the South San Joaquin Irrigation district. Among his civic and social connections may be mentioned his four years' trusteeship of Palo Alto and his membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Brooklyn Engineers' Club and the Cornell Association of Civil Engineers of New York. Mr. Duryea is a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite. 136 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY WARREN R. PORTER NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 137 ORTER, WARREN REY- NOLDS, President of the Western States Life Insur- ance Co. and ex-Lieut. Gov- ernor of California, was born at Santa Cruz, Cal., March 30, 1861, the son of John Thomas and Fanny (Cummings) Porter. His paternal and maternal ances- tors were respectively of English and Scotch origin, the former settling in Massachusetts early in the eighteenth century, and the lat- ter about the same time going to Canada. John T. Porter came to California in the spring of 1850, bearing a letter from Daniel Webster to the Postmaster of San Francisco, from whom he secured the position which had been promised him. The mother of Warren R. Porter reached the State in 1857, and afterwards taught school in Watson- ville and Santa Cruz. On August 23, 1893, their son, Warren, was married in Berkeley to Miss Mary E. Easton, daughter of the Rev. G. A. Easton. The children of this marriage are John Easton, Mary Francis, Thomas Bishop and Warren R. Porter, Jr. (deceased). From 1868 to 1870 Mr. Porter attended the Soquel Primary School at Se- quel, and in the latter year entered Mr. Beasley's private school at Santa Cruz, where he remained until 1873. About a year at the Watsonville Grammar School, two years with the Rev. D. O. Kelley of Watson- ville, and the next twelve months at Mrs. Magee's establishment, in the same town, prepared him for the St. Augustine Military Academy at Benicia, from which he was graduated in 1880 at the age of nineteen. During these years, however, he did not depend entirely upon the schoolroom for his education, for from the early age of ten to sixteen he was gaining a practical experience of ranch life, valuable from both a physical and a moral view-point. The best part of these years he devoted to dealing in horses and cattle, as well as to the breeding of both. When he was but fourteen years old he was a vaquero and expert breaker of horses, which is something more than a "broncho buster." But after his graduation from the Military Academy he returned to Watson- ville, and under the persuasion of Dr. Chas. Ford, at that time President of the Bank of Watsonville, became a clerk in the bank. He was ambitious to be a doctor, to follow in the footsteps of some of his forbears who had distinguished themselves as physicians and surgeons. His father also, though he had himself become a successful financier and wished his son to learn the value of money. was in favor of the professional career for him. After careful consideration of the mat- ter, the son decided for the business life. Thenceforward he became interested in banking and financial affairs, studying to im- prove himself and eager to enlarge the scope of his activities. In 1884 Mr. Porter left the Bank of Wat- sonville to become bookkeeper of the Loma Prieta Lumber Co., and in the following year was made secretary of the corporation, a post which he retained until 1904. Early in 1888 he was one of the organizers of the Pajaro Valley National Bank, and also of the Pajaro Valley Savings Bank. On the death of his father, in 1900, he was elected to succeed him as president of both these institutions, and has held the offices ever since. In the same year his responsibilities were considerably enlarged by the management of his father's estate, as well as by his presidency of the John T. Porter Company. The civic and political life of Warren R. Porter has been noteworthy. In 1899 Gov- ernor Gage appointed him a member of the Board of Prison Directors, whereon he served with distinction through the administration. He was a presidential elector in 1900, and in 1906 was elected Lieut.-Governor of Califor- nia. In this capacity he was far more than a figure-head. During his term of office, and in Governor Gillett's absences, he was vir- tually Governor. His relations with the lat- ter were very intimate, growing as they did not only from active association, but also from Governor Gillett's respect for the abil- ity Mr. Porter had displayed both during and following the campaign. His political acumen was especially evidenced by his suc- cess in winning the coast counties from the Pardee forces ; and throughout his incum- bency as Lieut.-Governor and as acting Gov- ernor he had the respect of both branches of the Legislature. In 1907 he was again ap- pointed prison director, this time by Gover- nor Gillett. He retired from the field of poli- tics to devote himself to his own increasingly important affairs, and with the distinction of never having been defeated. Besides the offices he holds in the com- panies mentioned above, Mr. Porter is presi- dent of the Granite Rock Co., Sisquoc In- vestment Co., and director of the Anglo-Cal- ifornia Trust Co. His clubs are the Pacific- Union, Family, Union League, Press, Olym- pic, all of San Francisco, and the Sutter, of Sacramento. He is also a Mason, Knight Templar, Elk and a Native Son of the Golden West. 138 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 1 GEORGE J. DENIS ENIS, GEORGE JULES, Lawyer, Los Angeles, Gal., born. New Or- leans, June 20, 1859; son of Henry Denis and Georgine (Cenas) Denis. Married Alberta Johnston, daughter Gen. Albert Sidney John- ston, Confederate hero, at Los Angeles, Nov. 30, 1885. Was one daughter. Alberta Denis (deceased). From his fifth to fourteenth year, Mr. Denis was in Prance and there received preliminary edu- cation in the Cibot-Melin Institute, Paris. Re- turning to America, attended Beechwood Academy, Osyka, Miss., and Christian Brothers' School at Pass Christian, Miss. Later entered Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., graduating 1878, with degree A. B. In 1880 was graduated from Tulare University Law School, New Orleans. Practiced law there two years. In 1882, removed to Los Angeles; joined the "Times" as a reporter. In less than a year went to "Herald." After eight- een months with "Herald," he entered law office of S. C. Hubbell as a clerk. May, 1884, became, for one year, editor and owner of "Express," then re- sumed law practice. Was Asst. Dist. Atty., Los An- geles County, 1885-86, and U. S. Dist. Atty. 1888-89. During latter term he, with Joseph H. Call, recov- ered for the U. S. from the S. P. Co. million's acres land. In 1893-97 again served as U. S. Dist. Atty., and inaugurated all prosecutions under Geary Chi- nese Exclusion Act. During term of 1884 the great railroad strike, in which Eugene V. Debs was con- spicuous, occurred. Mr. Denis obtained the only convictions from a jury as result of the disturb- ances. Prom 1899-03, served as member Code Com- mission, which revised laws of California. In 1886 formed partnership with Max Loewenthal, which still exists. For many years firm has been attorneys for S. P. Ry. Co., and in 1907 obtained judgment of $1,500,000 against Cal. Development Co. Member, Calif,, Annandale Country and L. A. Country chibs. LYNN HELM ELM, LYNN, Attorney, Los An- geles, California, was born in Chicago, 111., Oct. 29, 1857, and is the son of Henry Thomas Helm, a distinguished lawyer of Illinois, and Julia Lathrop Helm. He was married April 26, 1888, in Chicago, to Annie Hor- lock, and three children have been born to them, Elisabeth, Lynn, Jr., and Harold Helm. Mr. Helm entered Lake Forest Academy in 1865 and there received his education and preparation for college, leaving in 1875 for Princeton Univer- sity, from which he was graduated in 1879 with the degree of A. B. He received the degree of Master of Arts in 1882. After leaving college he studied law in the office of his father, and in 1881 was admitted to practice in Indiana and Illinois. He practiced in Chicago until 1896, when he moved to Los Angeles, and since that time has handled many notable cases, among them the Lowe and Dobbins gas cases and the case of Dobbins vs. City of Los Angeles, which he won finally in the Supreme Court of the United States. He has been Referee in Bankruptcy of the United States District Court of Southern District of California for Los Angeles County since 1901, and also acted as Master in Chancery for the United States Circuit Court in that district. He also has written several legal works and was se- lected as a commissioner to the Conference on Uni- form Laws and contributed much to the new ideas embodied in the work of that body. Mr. Helm is a member of the State, City and American Bar Associations and is president of the State Bar Association. He is a director of the University Club, and also belongs to the California Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Annandale Country Club and the Crags Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 139 EYLER, CHARLES JOSEPH, President of the Union Hollywood \\'ater Company, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, is a native of Ohio, being born at Hamilton, Ohio, December 7, 1856. His father was Christian Heyler and his mother Lena Heyler. He married Eliza- beth E. Hinsdale at Los Angeles on Decem- ber 23, 1909. He was educated in the public schools of Hamilton, Ohio, where he spent his boyhood, but upon the completion of his education he went to San Jose, California, set- tling in that city in the year 1878. He 'had not been there long before he established himself in the mercantile business. He first started with a small store, but later expanded it until it was one of the important businesses in the place. He remained in harness about eight years and then sold out to go into real estate. He put all of his money into his new ven- ture and soon was one of the most active operators in San Jose. He opened up a number of splendid residence sections and figured in some of the largest deals trans- acted at that time. He also took an active part in the civic welfare of the city and was regarded as one of its leading citizens. After eleven years of activity, however, he decided to leave there for the southern part of the state. This was in the year 1901, when Los An- geles was entering upon the boom which at- tracted thousands of people and millions of dollars to that city and Mr. Heyler was one of those who went there for the purpose of investment. He immediately re-entered the real estate business in his new field, at first devoting his time to residence property. In this connection, he succeeded in acquiring a number of desirable tracts in the western part of the city, improved them and opened them up for residences. That section is now one of the most beautiful residence districts in Los Angeles. C. J. HEYLER In time, Mr. Heyler turned his attention to business property and today is the owner of some valuable ground in the center of Los Angeles and in tovvns adjacent to it. In 1906, Mr. Heyler purchased the West L. A. Water Co. and on reorganization named it the Union Hollywood Water Company, of Hollywood, California, and from that date has been the leading factor in the develop- ment of that company. He has been its active head since he purchased the corporation, acting as President and General Manager. Since he took over this large public service organization it has undergone a remarkable change and is today one of the large companies of its kind in Southern Cali- fornia, and represents a great expenditure of money. He has devoted a greater part of his time, money and brains to the welfare of that corpora- tion, and in an endeavor to keep up with the de- mands of the rapidly growing city. When he took charge of the company it had fif- teen hundred consumers, and the list has now grown to six thousand ; similarly, its pipe line mileage has grown from 67 miles to 200. Mr. Heyler is still interested in the realty business in Los Angeles and Southern Cali- fornia. At the present time he is President of the C. J. Heyler Realty Company. He has also a number of holdings in oil properties throughout the Southern part of the state and is the owner of mining prop- erties in California and other sections of the Southwest. He is director in the California Midway Oil Company, and holds a similar position with the Choix Mining Company. Mr. Heyler is widely known through his business interests in and about Los Angeles, and during the last ten years has taken a prominent part in the growth of that city. He is a member of several organizations of Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Realty Board and Automobile Club of Southern California, all influential organizations. 140 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY L. W. POWELL NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 141 !VQ^SS! 'SWtt-' 1 OWELL, LOUIS WESTON, Mining, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in the town of New Madrid, Missouri, May 3, 1866, the son of Edmund Powell and Virginia Nash (Fontaine) Pow- ell. He married Miss AUie Moore Jewell, November 26, 1884, at Hagerstown, Mary- land, and of their union there have come five children — Jennie Jewell, Ralph Edmund, Ruth Fontaine, George Benedict and Dor- othy Anne Powell. Mr. Powell's education spread over a period of many years and was divided into three parts. First he attended private schools and studied under tutors in his home town, then went to the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, and finally entered Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia. Immediately upon the conclusion of his college work Mr. Powell engaged in mercan- tile business and other pursuits in Missouri, but removed to Virginia in the early nine- ties and there he became secretary and treas- urer of the Buena Vista Company, a respon- sible concern engaged in mining, manufac- turing and town building. While there Mr. Powell, in a manner characteristic of the man, took an active part in the affairs of Buena Vista and served as a member of the City Council. He remained in Buena Vista until the lat- ter part of the year 1895, but at that time moved to Bessemer, Gogebic County, Mich- igan, where he was engaged with Ferdinand Schlesinger. Schlesinger had formerly been the iron ore king of the Lake Superior dis- trict, owning some of the largest mines, rail- roads and ore boats on the Great Lakes. In the early nineties he had failed in business, and, turning all of his property over to his creditors went to Mexico. There he recouped his shattered fortunes to a considerable de- gree, and it was on his return to the Michi- gan fields that Mr. Powell became associated with him in the iron ore business. During the next five years Mr. Powell worked assid- uously with Schlesinger and in that time aided him greatly in his work of re- establishing himself in the business world. His work in the interests of Schlesinger attracted the attention of iron and ore lead- ers to Mr. Powell, and by the beginning of January, 1900, his reputation as an expert and manager had become such that he was pre- vailed upon by the Carnegie Company to en- ter into the work of developing ore properties for it. The Carnegie Company previously had been interested somewhat in the iron ore busi- ness, but at this time decided to go into it more actively than ever before. Accordingly, Mr. Powell was appointed agent for the Oli- ver Iron Mining Company and vice president of the Pittsburg Steamship Company. Both these organizations were subsidiaries of the Carnegie Company and had charge, respec- tively, of the mining and steamship ore trans- portation ends of it. Mr. Powell made his headquarters in Du- luth, Minnesota, situated in the heart of the Northern Ore ranges and one of the greatest ore shipping pomts in the world. There, as in his previous connection with Mr. Schles- inger, Mr. Powell won fame for himself and added largely to his standing in his profession. When the United States Steel Corpora- tion, capitalized at $1,000,000,000, was organ- ized, it took in not only the largest steel and iron companies in the United States, but also took the best men from each company to be directing powers in the new concern. The magnitude of the Steel Corporation and its operations is known to everyone and its suc- cess is due largely to the work of the picked men who became the executive heads of its various departments. Mr. Powell was one of these men, chosen for the post of assistant to the president of the Oliver Iron Mining Com- pany, which bore the same relation to the steel combine as it had to the Carnegie Com- pany before the latter was absorbed. To this company was assigned all of the mining busi- ness of the corporation, and Mr. Powell's part in its affairs was even more important than it had been previously. In addition to his office as assistant to the president, Mr. Powell was appointed vice president of the steamship company and thus continued the work he had begun several years before in the employ of the Carnegie interests. 142 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY These two offices gave Mr. Powell direct charge of the mining and transportation de- partments of the world's greatest industrial institution, and subsequently he was placed in charge of its timber land department, which put him actively in charge of all its timber and ore holdings. In this capacity he purchased thousands of acres for his company. In January, 1906, after having spent more than ten years in the Northern Ore regions, during which he acquired international prom- inence as a mining operator, Mr. Powell de- serted the iron and steel industry for copper. He resigned his position with the Steel Cor- poration and went at once to Bisbee, Arizona, where he became vice president and general manager of the Calumet and Arizona and allied interests in charge of their mines and smelter operations. At this period of his career Mr. Powell began works quite as extensive and important as those he had performed in the interest of the Steel Corporation. They included, in ad- dition to his mining and smelting activities, the building of railroads, property develop- ment and town making. This part of his life Mr. Powell justly re- gards with pride, for when he started in the development of the copper properties now known as the Superior and Pittsburg Copper Company his friends and others in the busi- ness thought he was going up against a hope- less task. He persisted, however, matching his faith and experience against the opinions of the men who predicted failure as the only reward for his efforts. He was undertaking a monumental contract in trying to make these properties pay, but with characteristic energy and determination he went at it and continued at it, until today the company's holdings are regarded as some of the best copper enter- prises in the land. This successful accomplishment will al- ways stand as a memorial to the ability and perseverance of the man. The Superior and Pittsburg was not the only great success of Mr. Powell, however, for when he took charge of the smelter of the Calumet and Arizona it was in an extraordi- narily poor condition. He caused it to be re- built to a large extent and then put in operation. Mr. Powell was the main factor in the founding of Warren, Arizona, the beautiful little suburban town just outside of Bisbee, and he constructed the Warren-Bisbee Elec- tric Railroad lines, connecting the two places. Warren today is a thriving town and is rap- idly becoming an attractive residence place, Mr. Powell himself making his home there, although his office is in Los Angeles. After his first successes in the copper fields of Arizona, Mr. Powell became gen- eral manager of the Cananea Central Copper Company, vice president of the Cananea Con- solidated Copper Company, president of the Cananea-Duluth Copper Company and a num- ber of other corporations subsidiary to the Greene Cananea Copper Company, the lar- gest copper operators in the Southwest and the forces of which were responsible for open- ing up that field. All of this work in Arizona Mr. Powell accomplished in the remarkably short period of four years, and at the end of that time, or in July, 1910, resigned his positions with the Calumet and Arizona and the Superior-Pitts- burg companies to devote his time and atten- tion to his private interests. These latter in- clude the Elenita Development Company and the Powmott Development Company, in both of which he occupies the position of presi- dent ; the Sierra Madre Consolidated Mining Company and the San Antonio Copper Com- pany, holding directorships in both. Mr. Powell is the principal factor in the operations of all of these enterprises and is today among the leading individual copper developers of the Southwest. Despite his continuous and close applica- tion to his work, Mr. Powell has taken a keen interest in politics and government wherever he has been, and in addition to his service as City Councilman in Buena Vista, Va., he was Chairman of the Board of County Supervisors of Gogebic County, Michigan, during his residence in that State. He was also a dele- gate from the Territory of Arizona to the Re- publican National Convention in Chicago, in 1908, which nominated William H. Taft for the presidency. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and takes a leading part in the aflfairs of that body. He is also a thir- ty-second degree Mason. His popularity in business as well as so- cial circles is attested by his club member- ships, which include the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, JNIinnesota; the Old Pueblo Club of Tucson, Arizona, and the Douglas County Club of Arizona; the California and Sierra Madre clubs of Los Angeles, California; the Northland Country Club of Duluth, and the Warren District Country Club of Warren, Arizona. He is also a member of the Broth- erhood of Protective Order of Elks. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 143 ATES, HENRY SEARS (Bates & Chesebrough), Ship- ping and Commission, San Francisco, California, was born in San Rafael, that State, April 27, 1879, the son of Marshall Asha Bates and Elizabeth (Sears) Bates. He is of Virginian descent on his father's side and of New England ancestry on the maternal side, his mother having been the daughter of Judge Sears, a jurist well known in the East. On March 18, 1903, Mr. Bates mar- ried Miss Mary Gladys Merrill, in San Francisco, and to them there have been born three children: Merrill, Henry Sears, Jr., and Gerald Bates. Mr. Bates received his early education at the Pa- cific Heights Grammar School and at the Broad- way School, San Francis- co; attended the Mount Tamalpais Academy in San Rafael and the Low- ell High of San Francisco from 1891 to 1895, was graduated from Boone's Academy, Berkeley, in 1897, and left the Univer- sity of California in 1898, in his sophomore year, to engage in mining in Mari- posa and Calaveras coun- ties. In 1900 he went to Nome, Alaska, where he roughed it for awhile, ran a boat on the Yukon and gained an experience valuable from both a physical and business viewpoint. Possibly the germ of his present large ideas of shipping and development was born in that Yukon venture and stimulated by his subse- quent progress in the brokerage line. At all events, in 1901 he entered the marine broker- age business with M. A. Newell as an ad- juster. Here he rapidly learned the details of the office, and in 1903 became a clerk in the firm of Johnson & Higgins, marine brokers, where he rose, in 1905, to the head of the ad- justing department, a recognized authority on marine adjusting. The February, 1911, number of "Ocean Travel and Traffic" contains an article by Mr. Bates, sketching the history of his company and indicating the "probable eiifects the Pana- ma Canal will have upon California's trade with the Gulf and Atlantic ports." Excerpts from this contribution shed much interesting light upon the subject treated, as well as on Mr. Bates' commercial intelligence. He tells us that in July, 1907, the firm "started in busi- ness and, naturall}', owing to the previous ex- perience of both partners, decided to confine itself to shipping and marine brokerage." The positions previously held b}' Mr. Chese- brough and himself had given them an accurate knowledge of the trade by sea via the port of San Francisco, and had ena- bled them to percei\'e the great opportunities which the trade between Atlan- tic and Pacific ports of- fered young men of ex- perience in the shipping business. They were "firmly convinced that the tonnage of our country had increased far beyond an equivalent to that of the sugar exported f rom Hawaii," which had been the basis of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company's business, and that "a large part of the cargo previously routed 'all rail' from the mills to the seaboard would be diverted to the water car- rier." Mr. Bates believes that all this is but a forerunner of that "which will move after the completion of the canal." He concludes with a frank admission that "we have tried, first, to lay a foundation for a busi- ness for ourselves, to be brought about by the Panama Canal, and, secondly, that we have tried to do something toward the develop- ment of our State and its wonderful resources in the trade between the cities of San Francis- co, Los Angeles, and Gulf and Atlantic ports." He is a type of the young business man in whom intelligence and energy, plus foresight and broadness of view, have made a sum of remarkable success. It is largely through these qualities that his company, though still in its infancy, has developed a trade surpass- ing his expectations. He is a member of the Bohemian Club, University Club, Merchants' Exchange, San Francisco Golf, Tivoli Club of Panama and California State Automobile Association. 144 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY R Y A N, E L D E N P., Real / Estate Operator, Los An- geles, California, was born at Jefferson, Texas, March 28, 1857. His father was E. P. Bryan and his mother, Mary (Jurman) Bryan. He married Georgie Hendricks on May 13, 1876, at Dallas, Texas. There are two children, Bessie Bryan, now Mrs. L. T. Bradford, and Minnie Bryan. H i s education wa'a mostly in a private coun- try school in Texas, and his boyhood days were spent in the country. He remained on his father's farm, which was typical of the boys of that day, until he was 19 years of age, when he left the country and moved to the city of Dallas. Here he engaged in the mer- cantile line, and for fully ten years put in his time establishing and develop- ing his business. In 1886 he heard re- ports of the wonderful opportunities offered in California, and he made up his mind to go still farther west, and with that end in view he disposed of his interests in Texas and moved to Los Angeles, where he arrived on Decem- ber 11 of that year, and where he has been lo- cated up to the present time. For one year he put in his time in resting and looking over properties in and about Los Angeles, and at the end of that time was prepared to invest in the realty business. He has now been in that business over twenty- five years in Los Angeles, and numbers among the pioneer realty dealers of the city. He first entered business alone, but later associated himself with the firm known as Bryan & Clark. They handled principally downtown business properties, but invest- ed to some extent in outlying districts. The firm name changed to that of Bryan & Bradford with offices situated at the pres- ent time in the new Trust and Savings E. P. BRYAN Building, Los Angeles. The present firm owns large tracts of lands in the suburban and outlying districts. When H. E. Huntington first invested in Southern California, some twenty years ago, his first property purchased in Southern Cali- fornia, amounting to something over $100,- 000, was bought from Mr. Bryan, who was at that time very prominent in realty cir- cles in Los Angeles. Since then he has han- dled many deals in excess of that, but at that period it was a record-breaking purchase. At the pres- ent day Mr. Bryan has large holdings in the western and southwest- ern portions of Los An- geles. S u ch desirable tracts as that of West- moreland and others in that vicinity are among the best examples of land placed on the market by Mr. Bryan and his firm. Numerous other tracts in the residence districts have been purchased, subdivided and improved and placed on the mar- ket by Mr. Bryan and his partner. Mr. Bryan is now heavily interested in the downtown business center of Los An- geels, where he owns a number of very val- uable properties. He was one of the earliest real estate dealers to foresee the future giowth of Los Angeles toward the south- west portion of the city, and accordingly in- vested in property in that direction. His firm is at present one of the prominent realty companies of that city, where it does a large and solid business. Mr. Bryan shares to a great extent in the meteoric development of Los Angeles and immediate vicinity, and is one of the many factors working for the future of the city. Mr. Bryan is most favorably known throughout the vicinity of Los Angeles in a business and social way. He is a member of the California Club of that city and of the Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 145 ORKS, LEWIS REED, At- torney, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Vevay, In- diana, December 28th, 1869. His father is the present Uni- ted States Senator, John Downey Works, and his mother Alice (Banta) Works. On August 28th, 1903, Mr. Works married Har- riett Laura Wilson, of Los Angeles. Mr. Works has one son. Pierce Works, born Jan- uary 2, 1896, by a pre- vious marriage. Mr. Works received his education beginning at Miss Drummond's school for children in Ve- vay, Indiana, his birth- place, and then by attend- ing the public schools of Vevay and of San Diego and San Francisco, Cali- fornia, having removed to San Diego from Indiana, with his distinguished father, in April, 1883. He is also a graduate of the San Diego Commercial College. He was admit- ted to the Bar in Febru- ary, 1892. Upon his admission to the bar he entered part- nership with his father in San Diego, the firm doing business under the name of Works and Works. The style of this firm later became Works, Works and Ingle, and later still returned to the title of Works and Works. Entering the field of politics, Mr. Works was in 1898 elected as a member of the State Assembly, and served from January, 1899, to January, 1901. On the completion of his term of service in the State Assembly, Mr. Works went to Los Angeles, where his father had located in the meantime, where he entered partnership with his father and Bradner W. Lee, under the firm name of Works, Lee and Works, (September 1st, 1901). Mr. Works attended closely to his prac- tice and took very little part in politics, but was from February 1, 1907, to January 1, 1909, first assistant City Attorney of Los An- geles, a position he resigned in order to form the law partnership of John D. Works and Lewis R. Works. On the retirement of John LEWIS R. WORKS D. Works from active practice, as a result of his election to the United States Senate, the firm was dissolved and since that time Mr. Works has conducted a successful practice by himself. In July, 1911, Mr. Works was appointed on the Board of Public Utilities of Los An- geles and was elected its President, a place he now holds. As an active partici- pant in public affairs, Mr. Works began at an early age to show those charac- teristics which have be- come a dominant part of his life, and which have brought him forward to a prominent point of in- terest and effect, in all matters appertaining to the welfare not only of the city which he has adopted as his home, but of the state and nation as well. For example, when as a very young man he learned of the movement to organize a naval mili- tia force in California, he jumped enthusiastically into the agitation, and was a charter member of Company A, the first one organized in the State and which was made up of San Diego young men. As matters of ethical interest, he finds en- tertainment in being a member of the Archae- ological Institute of America and of the Na- tional Geographical Society. Actively and in a militant spirit, he be- longs to the City Club of Los Angeles, to the Good Government Organization of Los An- geles, to the College Equal Suffrage Asso- ciation as an honorary member, to the Na- tional Municipal League, to the Los Angeles Municipal League, and to the Chamber of Commerce, the Severance Club and the Gamut Club. In all matters which he undertakes, whether it be for the city or for his club, he goes at them with all his energy, and he is regarded as one of the most progressive young men in the Southwest. His secret order is that of the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, of which he is Past Ex- alted Ruler of San Diego Lodge No. 168. 146 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY D. C. JACKLING NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST H7 ACKLING, DANIEL COWAN, Vice President and General Manager of tlie Utah Copper Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born near Appleton City, Bates County, Mis- souri, Aug. 14, 1869, the son of Daniel Jackling and Lydia Jane (Dunn) Jackling. He married Jennie B. Sullivan, at Albany, New York, in 1896. Colonel Jackling spent the early part of his life on a farm in Missouri and received the pre- liminaries of his education in the public and high schools. Subsequently he attended the State Normal School, at Warrensburg, Missouri, and after completing his studies there, entered the Missouri School of Mines, at Rolla, taking a course in mining engineering and metallurgy, graduating in 1892, with the degree of Metallurgical Engineer. In 1892 and '93 he took a post-graduate course and accepted the position of assistant professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy at the School of Mines. He was an instructor for a year, then went forth to the real work of his career. Seeking a practical and thorough knowledge of mining, he began as an ordinary miner and as- sayer in the Cripple Creek district of Colorado, and later, in 1894, quit that to devote himself to the labors of a chemist and metallurgist in the same district. In 1896 he left the Colorado field and went to Mercur, Utah, where he met with instant success. The first big accomplishment of Colonel Jack- ling's career came in 1897, when he was appointed superintendent in charge of the construction of the great metallurgical works of the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines, of Mercur, Utah. He was en- gaged for three years in the building and operation of this plant, but in 1900 gave it up to engage in general work, and for the next three years figured in various important consultation, construction and operating capacities in the states of Washington, Colorado and Utah. Prior to this time, however, his attention had been drawn to the wonderful possibilities and re- sources of Bingham, Utah, and he made up his mind that at some time he would undertake the development of that section. Accordingly, in 1903, he organized the Utah Cop- per Company, and at once began the development work he had planned years before. He was made Vice President and General Manager of the com- pany's properties and has been in active command of its operations since the day of its organization. That was the foundation of Colonel Jackling's po- sition as one of the big figures in the copper in- dustry of the United States, and since then he has become interested in many other concerns. These companies, with the positions he holds in each, are: Ray Consolidated Copper Company, vice president and general manager; Nevada Con- solidated Company, vice president; Nevada North- ern Railroad, vice president; Bingham and Garfield Railway, vice president and general manager; Ray and Gila Valley Railway, vice president and general manager; Utah National Bank, director; McCormick & Co., Bankers, Salt Lake, vice president; Garfield Banking Company, vice president; Salt Lake Se- curity and Trust Company, director; Utah Hotel Company, director; Utah Hotel Operating Company, president; Utah Fire Clay Company, director. In addition he is a heavy stockholder In the First National Bank of Denver, Colorado; United States Sugar and Land Company, of Garden City, Kansas; United Iron Works, Oakland, California; Kansas City Structural Iron Company, and many others. The position occupied in the mining world by Colonel Jackling is unique, not only for the rather brief period of time in which it has been attained, but because in some respects it stands singularly alone. Most noted mining men of the day owe recognition to their ability in determining the ex- istence and value of ore bodies and their relation to mineralogical and geographical conditions. Colonel Jackling's pre-eminence is due to his work in making commercially profitable bodies of ore that at large would be deemed almost worth- less. It may be said that the Utah Copper Com- pany, because of his metallurgical knowledge, cov- ering the widest and most practical grasp of the subject, was really the pioneer in making commer- cially profitable the handling of large bodies of cop- per ore of such low grade as had been looked upon previously as so much waste. From a three hundred ton mill which he erected at Bingham for experimental purposes, one now handling eight hundred tons is in operation there, and another one with a capacity of seven thousand tons daily is running at Garfield, Utah. When the small quantity of copper in the ore is considered, the vast tonnage of copper produced is little less than marvelous. Colonel Jackling was attached to the honorary staff of Governor Peabody of Colorado, 1903-4, with the rank of colonel, and has been a member of the staff of Governor Spry of Utah for three years. He was commissioner for Utah to the Alaska- Yukon- Pacific Exposition in 1909. Aside from these moie or less honorary offices Colonel Peabody has always positively declined political preferment, and while he takes an active interest in party progress he be- lieves that he can best serve the interests of his State by devoting himself to practical business im- provement. His clubs are Alta, University, Commercial and Country of Salt Lake City, California of Los An- geles, Rocky Mountain of New York, El Paso of Colorado Springs. He is a member of the Ameri- can Institute of Mining Engineers and the Metal- lurgical Society of America. 148 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY DR. CHAS. C. BROWNING ROWNING, CHARLES CLIFTON, physician, Los Angeles, California. Born May 25, 1861, Denver, Illinois. Son of Enoch Clifton Browning and Sophia Louisa (Pennock) Browning. Married Helen E. Til- lapaugh at Denver, Illinois, August 26, 1885. They have one child, Helen Gilberta Browning. Dr. Browning attended preparatory school, Shel- byville, Missouri, 1878-79; Shelbina College, 1880; Christian University, 1881; Missouri State Univer- sity, 1881-83, receiving degree of M. D. Practiced in Illinois until 1888. At the University of City of New York, 1888-89. Served intemeships at the New York House Re- lief and the Insane Asylum, Blackwell's Island. In 1891 he went to Califiornia, locating at San Jacinto. Remained there until 1893, then went to Highland, California, and in 1905 moved to Los Angeles. He waiS Medical Director Pottenger Sanatorium, Monrovia, from 1905 to April, 1910; incorporator and vice president Pottenger Sanatoilum Company; organizer and first vice-president First Bank of Highland; incorporator and first secretary High- land Domestic Water Company; incorporator of San Bernardino County Savings Bank; incorporator and vice-president Highland Fruit Growers' Association; member of staff Medical Department University of Southern California; ex-president of the Redlands Medical Society, San Bernardino County Medical Society and the Highland Library Club. Member of all the important medical societies, National, International, California and Los Angeles Associations for the Study and Prevention .of Tu- berculosis, and National Child Labor Society. Also of Monrovia Board of Trade and Municipal Water- ways Association. Belongs to University and City Clubs of Los Angeles; Elks, Knights Templar, Mys- tic Shrine and Eastern Star. J. WISEMAN MACDONALD ACDONALD, JAMES WISEMAN, Attorney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, Jan. 17, 1866, the son of Allan Macdonald and Eleanor (Wiseman) Macdonald. He is a descendant of the famed Macdonalds of Clan Ran- ald, of the Western Highlands of Scotland, whose name is frequently mentioned in song and story. He married Jane Boland in San Francisco, June 23, 1902. They have three children, Allan, Eleanor and James Wiseman Macdonald, Jr. Mr. Macdonald, although born an American, spent his boyhood and part of his early manhood in England. His father died in 1869, and the mother took the children back to England to her original home where she was born. He was educated at the Grant School, a private institution at Burnly, Lan- cashire, England, conducted by the late W. M. Grant, one of the best known educators of England. On the death of his mother he immediately re- turned to America, coming to Los Angeles in 1891. In 1892 he was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of California. He has served two terms as trustee of the L. A. Bar Association, and was Lecturer on Corporations for the University of So. Cal. He is a director and attorney for the Park Bank of L. A., and president of the Dimond Estate Co. of S. F., a close corpora- tion having large real estate holdings in and near that city. He has been for many years legal ad- viser of the Catholic Bishops of Monterey and of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the California Club. An interesting phase of the history of the Mac- donald family is that for several generations they were under the displeasure of the present royal family on account of their adherence to the Stuart cause and the part they took in the Jacobite wars of 1715 and 1745, NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 149 ONATY, RT. REV. THOMAS JAMES, Roman Catholic Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, California, is a native of Ireland, having been bom in Kilnaleck, County Cavan, Ireland, August 1, 1847. His father was Patrick Conaty and his mother Alice (Lynch) Conaty. He comes from old Milesian stock, inhabitants of Ireland for centuries. Bishop Conaty came to Massachusetts with his parents May 10, 1850, and was educated in the public schools of Taunton, that State. On December 30, 1863, he entered Montreal College, Canada, where he studied for a brief period. In September, 1867, he entered the junior class of the Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, and gradu- ated with the degree of A. B., July, 1869. He then en- tered the Grand Seminary at Montreal, and was ordained priest December 21, 1872. He received the degree of D. D. from the Georgetown Uni- versity in July, 1889, and that of J. C. D. from Laval University of Quebec, Decem- ber, 1896. On January 1, 1873, Bish- op Conaty was made assist- ant Pastor of St. John's Church, Worcester, Massa- chusetts. He remained in this position for seven years, winning a large acquain- tance through his genial disposition and strong personality. For his labors in that locality he was made Pastor of the Sacred Heart Church of Wor- cester January 10, 1880. His education, breadth of mind and knowledge of educational subjects caused him to be elected a member of the School Board of that city, which office he filled, exercising the highest sense of duty toward the general public, for fourteen con- secutive years. Many of the best educational measures passed by that board while Bishop Con- aty was a member are accredited to his liberal and far-reaching policies. Another civic recogni- tion was his election as Trustee of the Worcester Public Library. His counsel was productive of the best results and he was re-elected for another term of six years. Pope Leo XIII appointed him Rector of the Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C, October 22, 1896. Here he remained for six years. He was appointed by Leo XIII as RT. REV. THOS. J. CONATY Domestic Prelate of the Pope in the latter part of 1897. In 1901 his great ability was again recog- nized by the Head of the Roman Catholic Church when he was honored with the office of Titular Bishop of Samos. On November 24 of the same year he was con- secrated Bishop by Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore, Maryland. On March 27, 1903, he was appointed Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, taking active charge of that diocese in June of the same year, with headquar- ters in Los Angeles. From July, 1892, until 1896 he served as President of the Catholic Summer School of America at Platts- burg. New York. He was President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, 1886-1888, and is an advocate of that movement in its fullest extent. From 1900 to 1903 he was Presi- dent of the Conference of Catholic Colleges of America. Bishop Conaty has always been identified with the Par- liamentary movement in America for reforms in Ire- land, and has worked for better conditions in his na- tive country throughout his entire life. He advocates radical educational, political and social reforms. He is the author of nu- merous works, among them being the "New Testament Studies" (1896) and the Catholic School and Home Magazine (1892-96). His literary efforts are not limited to one subject, but cover a large field of re- ligious, educational and civic subjects. As a pulpit orator he stands in the foremost rank. As a public speaker and lecturer he has attained great prominence. As an American citi- zen he stands for what is highest and best in citizenship. Bishop Conaty, being of broad mind and pro- gressive instincts, takes an active interest in the development of the country over which he exercises religious jurisdiction and has been concerned in nu- merous movements for the moral and civic better- ment of Los Angeles. He has been connected with numerous plans for the uplifting of the public mind. He is a member of the Newman Club, Sunset Club, California and University Clubs of Los An- geles, the Municipal League and the Choral Society. He is associate member of the G. A. R. Post 10, Worcester, Massachusetts. ISO PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY rx 1\ % ^ Jv H, J D. C. Collier (Johnson) Collier nia, December 11, 1905 Kate Pinkerton. OLLIER, FRANK C, Attor- ney at Law, Los Angeles, California, was l)orn in Cen- tral City, Colorado, Septem- ber 14, 1878. His father was and his mother ^Mattie M. At Los Angeles, Califor- he married Lucy He spent his boyhood days in San Diego Coun- ty, California. There he attended the public schools, graduating from the high school of that city in 1896. He went East to college, studied at the University of Mich- igan, graduating from that college in 1901 with the degree LL. B. He was admitted to practice in the same year by the Supreme Courts of Michigan and Califor- nia and later, in 1903, by the United States District and Circuit Courts. In 1908 he was admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court. He be- came a member of the firm of Collier and Smith of San Diego, composed of D. C. Col- lier, Jr., now Col. D. C. Collier, director gen- eral of the 1915 exposition at that city; Sam Ferry Smith and Frank C. Collier, taking the position of a junior partner. The firm al- ready had a large and substantial practice. Mr. Collier's work being efficient and worthy of note. He remained with the San Diego firm for over a year, then removed to Ari- zona, where he saw greater opportunities for a young attorney. He practiced at Prescott, Arizona, dur- ing the year 1902, becoming associated with several of the prominent corporations and mining organizations of that territory. His record while in Arizona was that of a suc- cessful attorney and he returned from Ari- zona the following year locating in Los An- geles. FRANK C. Mr. Collier renewed his practice in Los Angeles in 1903, and practiced there alone for the next three years, his specialty being that of corporation law. His intimate knowl- edge of affairs relative to the Southwest, spe- cifically Arizona, and his success in those territories in a legal way was of particular advantage to him. In 1906, Mr. Collier formed a partnership with John W. Kemp, the firm taking the name of Kemp and Collier. This association lasted until 1908, when Mr. Collier left Los Angeles in the interest of some special affairs abroad. He went to London, England, where he pur- sued special work for . about eight months, his work necessitating his visiting many interesting places while there which broadened his knowledge of the world. He ac- quired an interesting un- derstanding of the work- ings of the British legal world, at the same time COLLIER continuing special work. Mr. Collier returned to Los Angeles in the latter part of 1909, where he became an associate in the firm of Collier and Clark. Mr. Oliver O. Clark was a young Los Angeles attorney, recently graduated from the Uni- versity of Southern California. The firm es- tablished offices in the H. AV. Hellman Build- ing and retain that location at the present time. They became active attorneys for the Los Angeles AMiolesale Jewelers' Board of Trade, Baltimore Oil Company, the Los An- geles Record, Anaconda Petroleum Co., Ed- mund G. Peycke Co., Freconee Company, and many other large interests. Mr. Collier has varied interests besides his law work, particularly in the oil line. He is Secretary of the Anaconda Petroleum Co., the Freconee Co., Assistant Secretary of the Baltimore Oil Company and is an influential man in those corporations. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, the IMunicipal League, and is a Thirtv-second Degree Mason. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 151 OLLIER, DAVID CHAS., Real Estate, San Diego, Cali- fornia, was born in a log cabin in the mining camp of Central City, Colorado, Au- gust 14, 1871, the son of David C. Collier and Mattie AI. (Johnson) Collier. On his father's side he comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry, while on his mother's there is English and New England stock. He mar- ried Ella Copley, January 1, 1896, at San Diego, and to them there have been born two children, David Copley and Ira Clifton Collier. Mr. Collier began business life at an early age, fortified only by a high school education but endowed with the char- acteristics that make for success in the business world. In March, 1885, be- fore he had passed his fourteenth birthday, he entered the employ of the First National Bank of San Diego, whither his parents had moved the previous year. That was the beginning of an ac- tive life as banker, law- yer, railroad builder and territorial developer. He remained with the bank until October, 1886, then went to work in the law oflfices of Collier & Mulford, of which firm his father was senior partner. He remained there a year, then entered the California Na- tional Bank, with which he remained until July, 1888. He was next a clerk in the medi- cal department of the Union Pacific Railroad at Denver, remaining there until 1890, when he returned to San Diego and his father's law office. He resumed his studies and was admitted to the Bar August 21, 1891. He went into partnership with his father and was with him, through various changes in the firm personnel, until 1905, when he or- ganized, with H. A. Howard, the Ralston Realty Company. The name was changed in 1908 to D. C. Collier & Co. He has been prominent in the subdivision of large tracts into building lots and has been an important factor in the general develop- ment of the city of San Diego. He is an ex- D. C. COLLIER tensive property owner, and in addition is largely interested in gold and gem mining and onyx and marble deposits. He is also interested in oil and ranch lands. One of the most conspicuous works in his career was the building of the Point Loma Railroad. He started this work in 1908, and when it was completed, early in 1909, sold it to J. D. Spreckels. Other companies of which he is president are the Western Investment Co. and the Santa Maria Land and Water Co. Mr. Collier has been one of the most conspic- uous men in the advance- ment of San Diego and is Director General of the Panama California Expo- sition, which will be held at San Diego in 1915. This is one of the most ambitious enterprises ever undertaken in San Diego and Mr. Collier has been the leading spir- it in it. Another field in which he is a leader is aviation. He has personal- 1}' directed three success- ful meets at San Diego, where the greatest flyers in the world participated. Mr. Collier takes an active interest in politics, but has sought office only once. This was in 1902, when he made a spirited independent campaign for the Republican nomination for Congress, but was defeated. He was a Lieu- tenant Colonel on the staff of Governor Gil- lette of California from 1907 to 1910. He is ex-president and director of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Collier holds membership in the Na- tional Geographical Society, American Insti- tue of Political Science, California Historical Society and American Forestry Association. He holds memberships in the following clubs : New York A. C. and Rocky Mountain Club of New York, Pacific Union, Union League, Bohemian and Army and Navy Clubs of San Francisco, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles; Toltec Club, El Paso, Texas; Cuyamaca Club, San Diego Yacht Club, San Diego Rowing Club, Country Club and Ca- brillo Club, San Diego ; Coronado Country Club and Colorado Traffic Club, Denver. 152 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY Vt w J ^ 1} \ J ALVERT, JOHN WILLIAM, manufacturer of ice, Azusa, Cal., was born at Huntington, Ind., September 30, 1855. His father was Ira Calvert and his mother was Racheal (Jones) Calvert, natives of Ohio. Mr. Calvert traces his fam- ily back to the early days of Colonial Amer- ica, and comes from well known and distin- guished American ancestors. He is a direct descendant of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, the celebrated Governor of Maryland. At La- manda Park, Cal., Sept. 11, 1890, he married Ella L. Eaton. They have two children, Peyton E. and John W. Cal- vert, Jr. Mr. Calvert was edu- cated in the public schools of Laurence County, Illinois, and later took a complete course in the Normal school at La- doga, Indiana, being grad- uated there in June, 1878. His early boyhood was spent in Indiana, but when he was ten years of age, his parents moved to Laurence County, Illinois, in which State he grew to manhood. Outside of his studies he was occupied in working on his father's farm. In 1880 Mr. Calvert was appointed Re- corder of Deeds of Laurence County, 111., and served in this capacity for two years. Fol- lowing this service he was elected for four years County Clerk of the same county and fulfilled the duties of the office with distinc- tion. At the expiration of his ofificial term he was offered a position in Los Angeles, which he determined to accept. He moved to California from Laurence- ville. 111., in 1886. Southern California was then in the height of its boom, and he ac- cepted a position with the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., one of the largest organ- izations of its kind in the Southwest. It was this offer which had attracted him from his home city. He was agent for this company at various Southern California towns, such as Lamanda Park, where he first located ; Pomona, Azusa and Covina for a J. W. CALVERT number of 3'ears, and through his connection became one of the best known men in the country. In 1899 he became interested in and was made manager of the Azusa Ice & Cold Stor- age Co., at Azusa, Cal., which connection he still holds. His headquarters are located in that city and he is identified there with many of the movements for improvement and de- velopment. He has made a deep study of the ice and cold storage business and is one of the leading au- thorities on that subject in the Southwest. Besides his chief busi- ness he is active in many other interests in his home city and keeps a close watch on the civic welfare of the county. He is a Highway Commis- sioner of Los Angeles County, his term being that of the years 1910 and 1911. He has worked for the better road move- ment in Los Angeles County, being one of the committee under whose direction the enormous sum voted for road im- provement has been ex- pended. He is a good road enthusiast. Aside from the above he is director and secre- tary of the Azusa Masonic Building Associa- tion and director and vice president of the United States National Bank of Azusa. Mr. Calvert is very prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of all York Rite and Scottish Rite Masonic bodies with the excep- tion of Supreme Council of the Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite. He has given a great deal of his time to Masonic work and is a liberal contributor to Masonic homes and the organization and building of Masonic Tem- ples. He is a Mystic Shriner and an Elk. He is active in his public duties and takes a prominent part in the public movements of his home town and the county. As a thor- ough business man and as a progressive cit- izen he is widely known throughout Southern California. He has a comfortable residence at Azusa, and outside of his business hou^^s finds a great deal of time to spend with his family. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 153 LARK, PERCY H., Real Estate and Investments, Los Angeles, California, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, hav- ing been born in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1860. His father was Nathaniel Clark and his mother Marie (Hanford) Clark. He married Hattie E. Youngs at Big Rapids, Michigan, November 18, 1885. There is one daughter, Florence E. Clark. Mr. Clark was educated in the public schools of Grand Rapids, Michigan, between 1865 and 1875. He continued his educa- tion, studying at a busi- ness college up to 1880. The first venture of Mr. Clark in the business world was in 1884, when he became an employe of the firm of James G. Mc- Elwee & Co., lumber dealers of Big Rapids, Michigan. He started in the capacity of book- keeper and was promoted on several occasions, be- coming manager of the firm in 1886. During his work for this corporation he made a study of the lumber industry from the ground up and mastered the one hundred com- plexities of the business. He continued with that company for three years at Big Rapids, Michigan, where in the latter part of 1886 he was advanced to Kansas City as manager for the same concern. As manager of the Kansas City branch he directed all of the corporation's interests in that city and the Central West district. He continued during 1887 and 1888 in his Kansas City position, but in 1889 he entered the wholesale lumber trade there, handling the output of a number of the large mills of Arkansas. Disposing of his interests in Kansas City in 1890, he moved to Los Angeles, California, and in 1892 became manager of the lumber yards of the Stimson Mill Company. For the next six years he was actively employed with this company in the office of manager. In 1899 he resigned his Los Angeles posi- tion to enter the mining industry in Arizona, but returned to Los Angeles in 1901, where PERCY H. CLARK he became a real estate operator and investor and known as one of the heaviest handlers of property in that part of the State. Mr. Clark has handled a great many tracts of farming lands and pastures in California, up to the present writing amounting to over 100,000 acres of such property in the central and southern parts of the State. Mr. Clark planned and carried to success- ful completion several townsites and distinctive residence districts, nota- ble in the latter line being the townsite of Beverly and the suburban estates of Beverly Hills, one of the most magnificent resi- dence localities in all the Southwest. It is situated along the foothills, be- tween Los Angeles and the popular beach resorts of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice. On this property, in fulfillment of Mr. Clark's plans, over one hundred thousand dollars has been spent in beautifying it alone, in addition to the vast sums spent on substantial im- provements. Beverly Hills will always remain a mon- ument to Mr. Clark's work and genius. Mr. Clark has taken a spirited interest in the growth of Los Angeles and Southern Cali- fornia, and was a pioneer in the campaign for good roads. He did much beneficial work in this direction during the year 1910, and is still at it. During the first mentioned period he was Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Committee on Boulevards, Parks and Roads, and this body recommended numerous im- provements in those three departments. Mr. Clark is vice president and director of the Automobile Club of Southern California, and in this capacity also has done much to fur- ther the cause of good roads. Mr. Clark is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Committee on Municipal and County Affairs. This body handles all mat- ters looking to the benefit of the city and county, politically and otherwise. He is a member of the California Club, Los Angeles County Club and the Gamut Club, in addition to the Automobile Club of Southern California. 154 PRESS REPERENCE LIBRARY ALEER, OWEN, vice president and general manager of the Re- public Iron and Steel Company, ^ Los Angeles, California, was born at Liscard, Canada, Febru- ary 3, 1858. His father was Owen McAleer and his mother Mary (Miller) McAleer. He was married in Los Angeles April 5, 1898, to Gertrude E. MuUally. He came to Los Angeles from Youngstown, Ohio, in February, 1888. Mr. McAleer received his education in the public schools of Youngstown, Ohio, and began his business ca- reer when but a small boy in the boiler works of W. B. Pollock. He remained at this work until he became pro- prietor of an establishment, which he later disposed of. When he came to California in 1888 he entered the em- ploy of the Baker Iron Works as superintendent of the boiler department and there made the first boiler ever manufactured in Los An- geles. He continued with this firm until 1906. Then he entered into a partner- ship with Nat Wllshire, form- ing the Republic Iron and Steel Company. He is vice president of the McAleer Land and Water Company, president of the Cashier Cop- per Company and president of the Surprise Valley Water Company. He is a staunch, regular line Republican. His first public office was on the Examining Board of Engineers in 1901 and 1902. His next was as Councilman from the First Ward, where he made an excellent record. He fought for universal transfers; had a law passed making the life of a railway franchise twenty-one years; had an ordi- nance passed making it unlawful to gamble on horse races; assisted in establishing the first Municipal Machine Shop and in the establishing of the First Playground on Violet Street. A large de- ficit confronted the Council when Mr. McAleer was a member, but at the close of the term there was a splendid balance with all current debts paid. Upon this record Mr. McAleer was importuned to run for Mayor, which he did and was elected by the largest majority ever polled previous. During his administration the Owens River project was launched, and he was one of the party that made the first investigation and fathered the enterprise in its infancy. Mr. McAleer was the OWEN McALEER means of the city's becoming possessed of a street railway by confiscating the South Park franchise. It is stated that the constant upheaval and op- position he met with in office, due to his de- sire to carry out the wishes of the people and the opposition he met with from those seeking per- sonal gains, caused the beginning of the reform in municipal politics. During his term of office he vetoed thirty-five acts of Legislation passed by the City Council, among which the following are of most notable importance: Against thirty - nine - year street railway franchise on Vermont avenue; against ordinance placing tax on privilege of performing man- ual labor; against increased gas rate ordinance; against acceptance of City Hall site north of Temple street; against contract for pur- chase of voting machines; against spur track on Third street and Central avenue; against spur track crossing twenty-one public streets in the southwest portion of the city; against use of the Los Angeles River bed for street railway purposes (subse- quently known as the notori- ous "River Bed Franchise"); against the giving to the Southern Pacific Railway Company of East Fifth street easterly of Central avenue; against proposed charter amendment repealing twenty-one-year franchises and permitting the carrying of freight by street rail- ways; against advertising signs over sidewalks; against steam railway spur track on Date street, and against abolishing Gas Meter Inspector. He advocated adoption of legislation providing for the following: Municipal ownership of gas plant; prohibiting freight cars running on street railways; appointment of committee for proper celebration of the "Owens River Aqueduct Prop- osition"; against allowance of desecration of the Stars and Stripes; the collection of license on street cars; extension of time tor payment of city taxes, to allow citizens to contribute funds for the relief of San Francisco; granted leave of ab- sence by the City Council for the purpose of ascer- taining the feasibility of bringing to the City of Los Angeles water from the Owens River Valley, and twice disapproved demand for $36,400, cover- ing purchase of voting machines. He is member Union League, Elks' and Sierra Madre Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 155 AGINNIS, ALMON POR- TER, Tax Commissioner, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Nel- son, Ohio, where he was born Janu- ary 1, 1848. His father was Franklin Maginnis and his mother Lucy Ann (Porter) Maginnis. On December 25, 1878, he mar- ried Alice J. Harpham at Hutchins, Texas, and as a result of this union there are three children, Frank A., Grace and Earl A. Maginnis. Mr. Maginnis was ed- ucated m the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from the high school of that city. He also attended the Western Reserve Col- lege, Hudson, Ohio, grad- uating in 1866. His first venture into the business world was in 1866, shortly after grad- uating from college. He took up civil engineering on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, being employed largely in Kansas and Colorado. He continued for four years. In 1872 he went to Texas with the Texas and St. Louis Railroad. With this system he constructed bridges throughout the Lone Star State, a notable piece of work being the bridge of the T. & St. L. Ry., between Texarkana and Waco. At a later period he had timber contracts on the Texas Pacific Railroad, from Marshall west. In 1882, having been in Texas for over ten years, he resigned to accept a position with the Santa Fe Railroad, shortly afterward working up the bond issue of the Chicago, Kansas and W^estern Railway. In 1885 he bought the right-of-way through Missouri and Iowa for the Chicago line of the Santa Fe. In December, 1887, he went to Califor- nia to take charge of the land department of the Santa Fe system, known as the Pacific Land Improvement Co. This organization was in reality an expansion of the Santa Fe system and Mr. Maginnis was put in full charge. His success in handling this weighty proposition was so marked that he was short- A. P. MAGINNIS ly made claim agent for the road. Within a short time he was made land commissioner, and later tax commissioner, which important office he now holds. The territory covered under these positions extends from Albu- querque west. With the rapid growth of Santa Fe inter- ests the duties of Mr. Maginnis became double. As a result he dropped the claim de- partment, as well as the land department, retain- ing but the tax commis- sionership. Mr. Maginnis has per- sonal interests that are widely distributed. He is president of the Santa Fe Car Icing Co., presi- dent of the Winslow Electric Light & Power Co. and holds a similar position with the Navajo Ice & Cold Storage Co. and the Gate City Ice & Pre-Cooling Co. These in- terests alone demand a considerable amount of Mr. Maginnis' time. He is a director in the Mexican Petroleum Co., in which he was one of the original investors. Other corporations and organizations in which he is more or less interested are the Italy Mining Co., the Mason Smokeless Combustion Co., the Mechanical Appliance Co. and the Los Angeles Harbor Co. The plant of the Santa Fe Car Icing Co., located at Argentine, Kansas, and that of the Navajo Ice & Cold Storage Co., situated at Winslow, Arizona, are corporations in which Mr. Maginnis owns controlling interests. He possesses similar interests in the Winslow Electric Light & Power Co. The Gate City Ice & Pre-Cooling Co., located at San Ber- nardino, Cal., between the hot Mojave desert and Southern California, possesses a capacity of two hundred and twenty-five tons and has a contract with the Santa Fe system to ice all of the citrus fruit shipped over its lines. This in itself is a concern of great importance to the citrus fruit industry, yet it is but one of many important institutions under the per- sonal direction of Mr. Maginnis. Mr. Alaginnis is a member of the Cali- fornia Club. 156 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OOK, JOSEPH EDWARDS, manufacturers' agent and warehousing, Los Angeles, California, was born in New York City, Decembei 3, 1854. His father was Charles W. Cook and his mother Charlotte R. (Folger) Cook. Mr. Cook has been married twice, his second marriage taking place at Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 1900. By his first wife he had one child, Morris M. Cook, born at Oakland, Califor- nia, and by his second wife, Josephine Cook, born at Los Angeles. Mr. Cook was reared partly in California and partly in the New Eng- land States. He attended the public schools of San Francisco between the years 1862 and 1864. Dur- ing the following three years he studied at New- buryport, Massachusetts, and at Brooklyn, New York, between 1867 and 1869. In 1870 he re- turned to the Pacific Coast, attending Heald's Business College of San Francisco during that year. He entered the brokerage business for himself in that city in 1871, and up to 1886 followed that business with varied successes. Between the years 1870 and 1873 he was a member of the City Guard of the First Regi- ment of San Francisco. In 1886 he located at Los Angeles. He associated himself with William T. Coleman & Co. of that city in the capacity of manager of that firm. A year later Mr. Cook became a member of the firm known as Cook & Lang- ley, fruit business and warehousing, which ultimately evolved into the present concern, known as the J. E. Cook Mercantile Com- pany. The house has since been incorporated. Not a great while after the establishment of the house Mr. Cook bought the interests, and from that time until today has been the chief I^ il^ i] Ife^ m «jv- i J. E. COOK spirit in the development and progress of that corporation. This corporation is the agent for many of the largest producers and manu- facturers in the United States, besides repre- senting Government interests. It is proprie- tor of the large Merchants' Warehouse and of the U. S. Customs Bonded Warehouse No. 1, United States Bonded Warehouse No. 8, the United States General Bonded Ware- house No. 3, and South- ern California agent for the Quaker Oats Com- pany, Church & Dwight Company, D. Ghirardelli Company, Proctor & Gamble Company, C. B. Knox Company, Fels & Company, Douglas & Company, Hawaiian Pineapple Products Com- pany, Western Chemical Company, Phoenix Pack- ing Company, and a great number of the largest salmon, oyster and canned corn industries throughout the United States. The success of the es- tablishment is due very largely to the keen and discriminating business ability of Mr. Cook and to his far-sighted policies. His management has brought the firm into the front ranks of the business circles of the Pacific Coast, his persistency and personality being a con- trolling factor in the upbuilding of the en- terprise. At the present time Mr. Cook is the President and Manager of the firm, and he has many other business interests which share a fair proportion of his time. He is a director in the Los Angeles Coun- try Club and in the Country Club Land Asso- ciation and Realty Company. Mr. Cook is active in the club afifairs of Los Angeles, and he has been a member of the California Club since 1889. He is now Vice President of the Los Angeles Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHJrEST 157 in the Parochial ^■^ LASS, REV. JOSEPH SARS- FIELD, pastor of St. Vincent's Catholic Church, and president of the St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles, California. He was born at Bushnell, Illinois, March 13, 1874. He is the son of James Glass and Mary Edith Kelly. He began his education Schools of Sedalia, Mis- souri, where he remained for several years. Going to Los Angeles in 1887, he entered St. Vincent's Col- lege, which was later to be- come the scene of his great- est activities and achieve- ments. He remained at St. Vincent's for a period of four years ,then returned to Missouri and entered the St. Mary's ApostoUc Col- lege of Perryville, Mis- souri. After completing his course of study in that institution he entered the Novitiate of the Congrega- tion of the Mission in 1891 and later became a student at St. Mary's Seminary in Perry County, Missouri, in which institution he made his course in Philosophy and Theology. He was ordained a priest by Bishop George Montgomery in St. Vincent's church, Los Angeles, August 15, 1897. After finishing his education in the United States he went to Rome, where, with its pre- dominant religious atmosphere and its connec- tions with the historic Catholic Church and monuments of ancient and Christian Rome, he became a student of philosophy and theology-. He attended the University of the Propoganda, and graduated from the University of the Mi- nerva in 1899 with the degree of D. D. On returning to the United States in the same year he became a faculty member of the St. Alary's Seminary at Perryville. His specialty at that institution was Dogmatic Theology, which subject he taught during the school term of 1899 and 1900. During the following year REV. JOSEPH S. GLASS he taught Moral Theology at the same semi- nary, and while he was connected with it he filled the office of Director of Seminarians. Dr. Glass was appointed President of St. Vin- cent's College, Los Angeles, in June, 1901. At the same time he was made pastor of St. Vin- cent's Church of that city, both of which re- sponsible positions he still occupies. Since taking charge of St. Vincent's College, Father Glass has raised the standard of that insti- tution to an exceedingly high mark, and today it ranks among the first edu- cational institutions of the West. Shortly after he be- came president of that col- lege the attendance greatly increased and it was neces- sary to build a large addi- tion to the college building. He has given St. Vincent's College a full university course and has introduced both civil and mechanical engineering branches. Dr. Glass is recognized as one of the foremost edu- cators in Southern Cali- fornia. He has written some notable articles on educational and religious subjects. By reason of his interests in many educational, religious and literary organizations Dr. Glass holds memberships in a number of organizations of national scope. He is a mem- ber of Bishop Conaty's Diocesan Council, of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Public Library, and is Honorary President of the Alumni Society of St. Vincent's College. He is also Chaplain of the Central Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He holds memberships in the University Club, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Fores- ters, Young Men's Institute and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Dr. Glass is actively concerned in the affairs of all of these organizations and his counsel is an important factor in the guidance of their members. 158 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY HERBERT FLEISHHACKER NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 159 ijpf LEISHHACKER, HERBERT, Banker, San Francisco, California, was born In that city November 2, 1872, the son of Aron Fleishhacker and Delia (Stern) Fleishhacker. He is of German-American descent on both sides of his family and is a combination of the sturdy and energetic characteristics of his race. He married Miss May Belle Greenbaum at San Francisco on August 9, 1905, and is the father of two children, Marjorie and Herbert Fleish- hacker, Jr. The schooling of Mr. Fleishhacker, in view of his later achievements, may be described as scant. It consisted of eight years, between 1878 and 1886, in the grammar schools in his native city and less than one year in Heald's Business College. With the commercial training he received in the latter institution he hastened to go into business. In 1887 he entered his fathers' paper business as a bookkeeper and remained in this capacity for about a year and a half. He then tried the manu- facturing end of it, on which he got a sufficient grip in the next four years to enable him to go on the road as a salesman for the house. His success in this direction was rapid and pronounced, but not fast enough to keep pace with his expanding ideas. . These were naturally enlarged by his trav- els and growing ambitions, which were continually on the watch for new fields wherein to cultivate the knowledge he had already acquired. The or- ganization of new enterprises became the logical outlet for his abundant energies, and Oregon seemed to him at the time the surest thing in prom- ised lands; so in Oregon City he established the first paper mills of that part of the world. Later on he organized a large lumber company near Eu- gene, in the same State, and then shifted the scene of his endeavors to his native State. Here he start- ed the dynamos going for the Electric Power Com- pany of Floriston, California, and subsequently or- ganized other power concerns in various parts of this State, gradually enlarging his operations until he had more than a dozen power and manufactur- ing plants in full swing. Mr. Fleishhacker's financial talents, however, seemed predestined to seek their most proper chan- nel, and to find it in the banking business. In 1907 he signalized his arrival in that center of the finan- cial world by becoming manager of the London, Paris and American Bank, already a solidly estab- lished house. The same remarkable vitality he had infused in every other enterprise he had grasped was soon imparted to this and marked by a steady growth. Even then his name was fre- quently heard on the street, with flatter-ing em- phasis on the term, "Comer." On March 1, 1909, the Anglo-California Bank, Ltd., was absorbed by the London, Paris and American and the title changed to the Anglo and London Paris National Bank, with Mr. Fleishhacker as manager and vice president. Two years later, in March, 1911, he was elected to the presidency of the new corporation, which is now in the front rank of American national banks. An idea of the growth of this institution may be gleaned by this statement, somewhat reluctantly made by Mr. Fleishhacker: When he assumed the management of the London, Paris and American Bank, in the summer of 1907, the deposits were four and a half millions. The absorption of the Anglo-California Bank swelled these to the sum of fifteen millions, and since then, under his manage- ment, they have expanded to the great total of twenty-six millions. The Anglo and London Paris National Bank does a larger foreign exchange business than any other bank in San Francisco. Their connections in the Orient and throughout the European countries are with the largest and strongest banking con- cerns operating in foreign parts. This is one of the main features of their business, and there is hardly any large transaction with the Orient or the European centers that is not handled through this progressive bank. Its board of directors is com- posed of men of vast experience and representing the largest financial and commercial interests on the Pacific Coast. While Mr. Fleishhacker's position as adminis- trative head of this great financial enterprise takes up the greater portion of his time, it is not the only one he holds. His interests are numerous and varied, and almost every institution in which he is stockholder commands part of his time as offi- cer, director or general adviser. Besides his presi- dency of the Anglo and London Paris National Bank, he is heavily interested in the Floriston Land and Power Company, a concern of which he is president; the Reno Traction Company, wherein he is also president, and the Anglo California Trust Company, of which he is vice president. He is also a large owner in and vice president of the following companies: The Central Califor- nia Traction, the City Electric and the Great West- ern Power. Additional to these offices, he holds di- rectorships in the Crown-Columbia Pulp and Paper Company, the Floriston Pulp and Paper Company, the Swiss-American Bank and other corporations. By this list it will be seen that Mr. Fleishhacker is a man of multitudinous responsibilities. The corporations named above are all operating and represent investments of millions. They are among the important Industries of California and comprise in their stockholders' lists many of the most in- fluential and progressive men of that State. Because of his widely scattered business affili- ations, Mr. Fleishhacker has had little opportunity to devote to social affairs, although he holds mem- berships in several clubs. Most of his leisure time he devotes to his family, however, their home life being close to the ideal of happiness. i6o PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY VERHARDY, MATHEW BW,. President of the Palace Market Company, Los An- geles, Cal., is a native of Leavenworth, Kan., where he was born October 8, 1862, his parents being Jacob Everhardy and Mary P. (Shoemaker) Everhardy. He was married on May 17, 1893, to Miss Elizabeth A. Piatt at Los Angeles, and has two children, John Raymond Everhardy and Elizabeth Everhardy. Mr. Everhardy's edu- cation was derived from public and private schools in Leavenworth up to the time when he was fifteen years of age, when he began his work of building up a career. At that age, in the year of 1876, his father, with the assistance of his son, devised a project of going to the Northwest Pacific Coast for the pur- pose of buying cattle and horses and driving them back across the continent. They left Leaven- worth in a sleigh, cross- ing the Missouri River on the ice ; the journey was a memorable one. They went to Omaha on the Missouri Pacific and thence to San Francisco in an emigrant car attached to a freight train the journey occupying fourteen days over the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. From San Francisco Mr. Everhardy and his companions embarked on the old side- wheel steamer The Ancon, for Portland, Ore., the plan being to buy the herds of cattle and horses in eastern Oregon and drive them back across the plains to Cheyenne and Laramie City, the country between being at that time practically an unknown wilderness. The outfits were purchased at The Dalles, and then on to Prineville, Ore., where the cat- tle and horses were purchased. When all were collected these amounted to 3600 head, divided into two herds of 1800 each, and the little company started back over the 1400 miles of unknown wilderness, through hostile bands of Indians and presenting every wild- animal terror and every natural drawback W. M. EVERHARDY that an untraveled wilderness possessed. Mr. Everhardy followed this vocation, haz- arduous as it was, for four years, with a great degree of success. His next venture was made at Tombstone, Arizona, the picturesque mining town which was the scene of many early day exciting epi- sodes. Here he embarked in the meat and cattle business with continued success crown- ing his efforts; so much so that he gradually ex- tended his business to Bisbee and Benson, and he acquired an extensive cattle range on the San Pedro River, in Cochise County, in Arizona. This proved highly re- munerative for a time, but there came a continu- ous season of droughts which produced such a series of disasters that Mr. Everhardy decided to give up this side of his enterprises, and having heard about the attrac- tions of Southern Califor- nia, he went to the neigh- borhood of Santa Ana and Anaheim, locating in 1887. In 1890 he removed to Los Angeles and en- gaged in business there. He has succeeded to an extent that has placed him among the foremost in the business and financial world of the Southwest. An indication of the extent of his vari- ous business interests is given in the fact of his being the president of the follov/ing named corporations, all of which are the cre- ations of his industry and talent : The Palace Market incorporation, with a wholesale house at Fourth and Central ave- nue ; the Palace Produce Company, at 359- 363 Central avenue ; the Palace Markets, at 622 South Broadway and 303 South Spring streets, retail stores. Mr. Everhardy is also a director of the Mexican Associated Oil Company and a member of the Advisory Board of the Com- monwealth Home Builders. He is a member of Los Angeles Lodge 99, B. P. O. E. ; West Gate Los Angeles Chapter, and Los Angeles Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, Royal Arcanum and the Jonathan Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST i6i ERON, ERNEST ALVAH, President of the Oakland Traction Company, was born in Galena, Illinois, May 18, 1852, the son of Samuel But- tles Heron and Jane (Tippett) Heron. His paternal ancestors came to this country from Scotland and settled in New England ; on the maternal side his forbears were English. On June 15, 1892, Mr. Heron was married in Stockton to Miss Eliza- beth Mead D u d 1 e y, daughter of the well known attorney of that city, and their children are William Dudley and Ernest Heron, Jr. From 1859 to 1867 he attended the public schools in Galena, two years of this period as a student in the high school, which he left, when he was sixteen years of age, to become a bookkeeper in a business house of his native town. After a few months of this occupation, he trav- eled through the North- west as a salesman for wholesale grocery houses until 1871, when poor health forced him to relax his activities. In April, 1873, Mr. Heron came to California and went to work as a bookkeeper for Myers Truett, a specula- tor in lands and similar investments. Within a few months, however, he shifted to San Luis Obispo, where for about a half year he was employed, again as a bookkeeper, by Goldtree Brothers. He then returned to San Francisco and to Myers Truett, but at the end of three months entered the Custom House as an inspector, a position which he retained until December, 1875, when he moved to Oakland and became the private secretary of E. C. Sessions, a banker and real estate operator. Mr. Heron's interests on the east side of the bay have been wide and varied and have con- tributed much to the development of that part of the State. His initiative and progressive instincts were too pronounced to permit him to hold, for any length of time, a subordinate position. In 1876 he was one of the organi- E. A. HERON zers of the Highland Park-Fruitvale Railway, and in the following year he entered the real estate business on his own account. In this he was active for twenty-five years, devot- ing much of his energy to car line extensions, as a practical means of aiding, not only his own business, but also the community in which he lived. His most important step, perhaps, in this direction was the part he played in 1889, as one of the organizers of the Piedmont Cable Railroad Company, of which he became president. This was absorbed by the present Oakland Trac- tion Company, a corpora- tion which Mr. Heron has served as president since 1895. He was also one of the organizers and the president of the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Consolidated Railway, now known as the Key Route. This is one of the most important urban and interurban elec- tric transportation sys- tems in the United States, connecting San Francisco with the other bay cities. Its western station is built in deep water in the middle of San Francisco bay, and is connected to the mainland by one of the longest piers in the world, over which the trains fly at a high rate of speed. A line of high-speed ferries runs from San Francisco to the pier station. His tendencies have al- ways been commercial, and these he has de- veloped to the considerable gain of the East Side cities. Chi.ef among the activities with which Mr. Heron has become identified are the Realty Syndicate, of which the was formerly vice president, and the First National Bank of Oakland, wherein he is a director. He is also chairman of the building committee of the Oakland Hotel, and vice president of the Bay Cities Securities Company. He is a member of the Oakland Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M., and of the Oakland Commandery, No. 11, K. T. His clubs are the Athenian, the Claremont Country and the Home Club, of Oakland, and the Bohemian of San Fran- cisco. 1 62 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY *s^ p i > ENDLETON, C. W., Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born January 4, 1859, in New York City. He is the son of William H. Pen- dleton and Margaret Pendleton, of Eng- lish stock. He married July 12, 1886, at San Francisco, and has two children, Charles \V. Pendleton and Albertine Pendleton. ]Mr. Pendleton was ed- ucated in the public schools of New York City and after his studies there were completed he was sent to Brown Univers- ity. At this institution he was a classmate and roommate with former Governor Hughes of New York, now Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He got his degree of Bach- elor of Arts with the class of 1881. The following autumn he moved to California and taught school in Monterey County for three years. Meanwhile, he studied law, his indus- try being rewarded by his admission to the bar by the Supreme Court of the State in 1884. He began to practice at once, in San Francisco, but in 1885, after one year, he went to Los Angeles and opened an office. He has been engaged in success- ful practice there since that date. Attorney Pendleton is widely known in the State, owing to his prominence in politics. His first political office was that of Court Commissioner, which he held from 1890 to 1895. He was a candidate for the Lower House of the State Legislature in 1892 and was elected. He was re-elected in 1894, and again in 1900, and during the latter session was chosen by his fellow legislators to the important office of Speaker of the House. In the following year, 1902, he was elected to the State Senate. During this part of his ca- reer, his name may be found on many of the laws now in force in California. He realized fully the power in his hands wlhile Speaker of the Lower House, and so swayed legis- lation and held the respect of his fel- lows that he went to the Upper House C. W. PENDLETON by a very large and substantial majority. He caught the eye of President Roosevelt as a man who was in sympathy with the progressive movement in politics, and as one who was deserving of reward for the work he had done for the Republican party. In 1902 he was appointed by the Presi- dent as Collector of Customs for the Dis- trict of Los Angeles and San Pedro Harbor. The office, when he took it, was of no great importance, because the foreign commerce of the Los Angeles harbor had hardly begun, but it has already grown to great proportions. He met the responsibilities of the en- larging business in such a satisfactory way that President Taft re-ap- pointed him after the last election. The Los An- geles customs district has the record of the greatest growth in the United States in the past decade, and in spite pif the fact that a growing office always costs more to operate than one in which business is more or less stationary, it also has a very high record for economy, costing less in proportion to the funds collected than most simi- lar ofifices in the country. Mr. Pendleton's legal knowledge has been of great value in the successful administration of the office. Sport and business are combined by him; he is secretary of the Los Angeles Baseball Association, an ardent golfer, and likes to fish for tuna at Catalina. He is president of the Los Angeles County Improvement Company, a prominent corpor- ation. He still conducts his legal business. He is a great booster for a new customs house. His staflf of clerks has already become so large that they cannot be accommodated in the present building. He is a member of the Masonic Frater- nity, including the Shrine. He belongs to the Union League Club of Los Angeles, the Union League of San Francisco, the Califor- nia Club, the Elks' Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 163 i^^ COTT, ALBERT WOODBURN, Jr., / merchant and attorney at law, San Francisco, Cal., was born In San Francisco, November 6, 1869, the son of Albert W. and Georgia C. (Smith) Scott. Of English-Scotch origin, his ancestors were among the early resi- dents of New England, especially of Vermont and Maine. His father, A. W. Scott, came from Ver- mont to San Francisco in 1851, and in 1855 estab- lished himself as a feed mer- chant, dealing in hay, grain and forage of all kinds. He not only built up a great busi- ness, from which the present firm of Scott, Magner & Mil- ler has grown, but also be- came an important factor in public and civic affairs, serv- ing many times as school di- rector. Supervisor and in other municipal capacities. He died December 5, 1908, widely known for his integri- ty, manhood and charitable deeds, in which his wife ably and unassumedly co-operated with him. Their son, who re- tains the Junior in honor of his father's memory, was married in San Francisco to Miss Ruth Pearl Van Vactor, daughter of Judge William Van Vactor of Placer county. After a course through the public schools of San Francis- co, A. W. Scott, Jr., entered the Boys' High School, from which he was graduated in 1887 into the University of California. Leaving this institution before graduation, he studied law, and in 1903 passed the Supreme Court examina- tions for the bar. Five years later he was also admitted to practice before the United States Su- preme Court. From 1891 to 1895 Mr. Scott was in business with his father, but for the next three years devoted himself chiefly to his profession, in partnership with Judge A. A. Sanderson. In 1898, however, he organized the present firm, under the name of Scott & Magner, which was consolidated in 1909 with the old-established house of W. A. Miller & Co., and changed to Scott, Magner & Miller, Inc. Although this corporation has developed into the largest concern on the Pacific Coast engaged in the shipping and wholesale trading of forage, A. W. Scott, Jr., has been especially prominent in connection with the civic betterment of San Fran- cisco. During the trying period following the great disaster of 1906, he organized an important section of the Red Cross work and was one of the A. W. SCOTT, JR. most efficient aids in the relief of the sufferers. He next turned his attention to the crying need of clearing the streets of the debris that blocked traffic and progress. Organizing the Citizens' Street Repair Association, of which he was made president, he raised by subscription a fund of ?50,000, engaged a large force of workmen, and with the aid of the merchants and draying firms, soon opened the channels of trade. The memora- ble "House Cleaning Day" was Mr. Scott's concep- tion, on which occasion, and inspired by his example, the populace bent to the task of sweeping the streets and carting away the dirt that obstructed them. It is esti- mated that on that day more than 30,000 loads were moved and by this volunteer work of the citizens fully $100,000 worth of labor performed. Another notable achieve- ment of Mr. Scott was his organizing the Civic League, comprising sixty-five Im- provement Clubs that repre- sented every part of San Francisco. Later he was president of the Industrial Peace Conference, and served on the arbitration commit- tees that endeavored to end the strikes in the telephone, street railway, iron manufac- turing and laundry compa- nies. In the last two men- tioned he was an important factor in the successful set- tlement. His work as a member of the Executive Sanitary Committee in charge of the health campaign when San Francisco stamped out for all time the plague that followed the earthquake and fire was equally noteworthy. Mr. Scott was one of the original organizers and directors of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- position, and as chairman of the Congressional Committee and one of the five commissioners that went to Washington to win the fight from New Orleans, he was largely instrumental in San Fran- cisco's victory. In recognition of his good work and character a non-partisan convention of 250 merchants of San Francisco assembled and made Mr. Scott their can- didate for Mayor, but to promote harmony he re- tired in favor of Mr. Rolph, the successful aspirant. Mr. Scott is secretary and treasurer of Scott, Magner & Miller, Inc., director of the S. F. Mer- chants' Association, S. F. Life Insurance Co., Death Valley Nitrate Co., of which he is chief owner, and has large mining and realty interests all over Cali- fornia. He is also a member of prominent social clubs of the city. 164 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY BOLIN, P. J., Con- tractor and Builder, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Brock- ville, Ontario, Canada, January 11, 1858, the son of John Bolin and Katherine (Dean) Bo- lin. He married Anna Rudesill at Santa Ana, Cal., in 1886. Three children were born — Mabel, in 1890, and Lela and Leland, twins, in 1893. He attended the pub- lic schools of Ontario, then started to learn the building trade, at which he became an expert before he was twenty-one, when he went to Colorado. There he was in the con- tracting business nearly two years. Then the lure of the "Golden West" enticed him to California, where he finally located in Los Angeles in 1881. He is now one of the leading contractors of that city. Numerous imposing homes and public build- ings have been reared under his direction. Aside from his contracting business, he has heavy oil land investments. In 1910 he organized the Ramona Home Oil Company, of which he is active manager. He is conspicuous in the civic betterment of Los Angeles and in lodge circles; member Cham- ber of Commerce; Vice Pres. Builders' Exchange; member Elks, Knights of Columbus and Ancient Order of Hibernians. MANNING. CHAS. DEWEY, ranch owner and County Supervisor, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Bowmanville, Ont., Canada, October 24, 1847, the son of C. L. R. Manning and Jane (Baker) Manning. He married May E. Kinne, September 4, 1871. They have three children, Olive, C. C, and Leo Roy Manning. In his boyhood Mr. Manning's family re- moved to Illinois, and he received his educa- tion in the public schools of Rockton. He enlisted in the Civil War at Rockton, becoming a private in Company I, Ninth Illinois Cav- alry, January 4, 1864. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant, which he held when mus- tered out, October 31, 1865. He returned to Rock- ton, and, In 1868, went Into the harness and sad- dlery business with his father. In 1882 he emi- grated to Rock Rapids, Iowa, where he resumed business. He became a prominent figure in the affairs of the town, serving as treasurer of Lyons county, Iowa, from 1889 to 1893. Shortly after the conclusion of his term he sold his interests and moved to California, where he has lived since. He has bought ranch properties in California, and has entered politics. He was elected Supervisor and has served since 1907. Member City Club and Union League, Los Angeles. KLEINBER- GER, VICTOR G., Real Estate, Los Angeles, California, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, August 22, 1881, the son of William Kleln- berger and Henrietta (Helprln) Kleinberger. He married Gladys Erskine at Los An- geles, in 1903, and to them there have been born two children, Ers- kine H. and Dorothy Kleinberger. Mr. Kleinberger re- ceived his education in schools of Lakewood, N. J., then went to Los Angeles. He was in various lines of business and about eight years ago organized the Victor G. Kleinberger Company, realty operators. His spe- cialty is subdivisions and he has improved and opened fifteen large tracts, and sold close to 2000 city lots, some of which are exclusive residence districts. He is considered one of the most suc- cessful of the younger real estate operators of Los Angeles. Mr. Klelnbel-ger is fond of travel and is also an enthusiastic golfer, motorist and fisherman. He is a director of the Annandale Country Club and is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Realty Board and the Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce, also member Legislation Com- mittee of the State Realty Federation and Southern California Auto Club. CHANDLER, JEF- FERSON PAUL, Attor- ney, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born at St. Joseph, Missouri, Janu- ary 6, 1873, the son of Jefferson Chandler and Catherine (O'Toole) Chandler. He married Elizabeth Shankland, June 1, 1904, at Los An- geles, California. He attended the public schools at Wash- ington, D. C, then took a preparatory course at Georgetown University, Washington, going thence to Princeton University, New Jer- sey, where he graduated in 1893. He studied law at Columbian Law College in Washington. He was admitted to practice in the courts of California the year 1895. He practiced law alone until he went into partnership with J. H. Shankland in 1904, the firm of Shankland and Chandler continuing to date. He is considered a conscientious and able attorney, who masters every case with unusual completeness. His knowledge of the law has become wide. He has fought cases before every court in the State. He represents many important corporations and his firm does a large business outside the State. He is a Democrat and takes an active Interest in politics, but never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, California Club and Princeton Club of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST I6S FRANCIS, JOHN HAYWOOD, Educator, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Preble County, Ohio, May 18, 1867, the son of George Francis and Mary (Pall) Francis. He married L. Lou Hott at Woodbridge, Cali- fornia, June 4, 1892. They have two chil- dren, George Haywood and James Francis. Professor Francis re- ceived his early educa- tion in the schools of his native State and was graduated from O 1 1 e rbein University, Waterville, Ohio, with the degree of A. M. In 1892 he went to California and located at Stockton. He attended San Joaquin Valley College, Woodbridge, California, graduating with the degrees A. B., A. M. In 1896 he left Stockton and went to Los Angeles to become a teacher. Since his arrival in Los Angeles, Professor Francis has become one of the leading educators of the city and in 1910 was chosen Superintendent of Schools. He is noted as an advocate of tech- nical education and is the founder of the Poly- technic High School of Los Angeles. He served as its principal from 1905 to 1910. Professor Francis is a member of the Academy of Science and the National Educational Associa- tion and belongs to University Club, Los Angeles, and to the Archaeological Institute of America. HEREON, R U P U S H., oil, Los Angeles, California, was born at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 20, 1849. He received his pri- mary education in the schools of Pittsburgh and was graduated from Western Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania oil fields were just then being opened up and the whole Bast was in a state of excitement. Fortunes were being won and lost. He nat- urally joined the rush to the fields. At one time or another he engaged in every form of enter- prise known to the oil business. He became ac- quainted with it from every angle. For a number of years he was engaged in the oil well supply business at Pittsburgh. In 1893 he sold out this business and went to California, locating at Los Angeles. There he engaged in the oil business and has been in it since. Organized the first Oil Exchange in California at Los Angeles and was president of it; vice president San Francisco Oil Exchange. One of the heaviest oil operators in the State and has done much to legitimately develop the industry. Member Army and Navy Club of California, Loyal Legion, U. S. A., California Club of Los An- geles, Knights Templar, Mystic Shriners and is a thirty-second degree Mason. DICKINSON, WIL- LIAM RICHARD, Drug- gist, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, bom at Carroll- ton, Mo., Oct. 27, 1862, son of Richard Whitlow Dickinson and Laura (Ann) Dickinson. He married Celestia Maud Warson, Aug. 20, 1890, at Snohomish, Wash. There is one child. Laurel Dickinson. Attended public schools of Kansas City, Mo., and from his thir- teenth to his sixteenth year worked outside of school hours as drug- gist apprentice. At six- teen he went to Deadwood, S. D., with Black Hills gold rush. From there he went to Central City and Lead, S. D., as drug clerk. In 1884 entered partnership with F. J. Cornes, in Central City, S. D. Later bought a drug store in Lead, and followed with three more, under the name of Dickinson Drug Co. In 1904, retired and traveled; went to Los Angeles same year. In 1908, bought the Dean Drug Co., and re-entered business. Mr. Dickinson originally was a Democrat, ap- pointed in 1884, Postmaster, Central City, S. D., by President Cleveland; served seven years. Be- came Republican during free silver agitation. Member Union League Club, Scottish Rite Masons and the Knights Templar. President Cali- fornia Pharmaceutical Association. HANDLEY, LORIN ANDREW, City Clerk, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born February 12, 1881, at Franklin, Indiana, the son of Jo- siah Handy Handley and Nancy Jane (Carn- ine) Handley. He is a descendant of Matthew Handley and Daniel Boone. He married Elizabeth Jane Bald- ridge at Mt. Carmel, Illinois, July 12, 1905. Two children, Joseph B. and Donald L. Hand- ley, were born to them. Attended schools of Johnson County, Indi- ana, graduated Hanover College, Hanover, Indi- ana, 1902. Graduated from Princeton with M. A. in 1904; took course in Theology in Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating 1905. Studied Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence under Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton, and later Governor of New Jersey. In 1905, was called to the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy, at Emporia College, Kansas, also teaching interna- tional law and economics. In 1907 resigned for position in Occidental College, Los Angeles, where he taught three years. Became interested in poli- tics and quit professorship to run for Congress. Ac- tive in Good Government movement; elected City Clerk in December, 1910. Prominent in church work. Member Jefferson, Old Hickory, Federation, City Clubs and Chamber of Commerce. 1 66 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY O N T A NA, M ARK JOHN, General Manager of the Cali- fornia Fruit Canners' Associ- ation, and father of the Ital- ian-Swiss Agricultural Col- ony of California, was born at Cerisola, in the Province of Genoa, Italy, May, 1849, the son of Giuseppe Fontana and Boro (Bianca) Fontana. When he was a few years old his father brought him to America and settled in New York City. In 1867 the son came to Califor- nia, and in June, 1877, was married at San Leandro, Alameda county, to Miss Nellie Jones. The chil- dren of this marriage are Margaret, Mark, Jr., Ro- land and Richard Fontana. Mr. Fontana's educa- tion, like his subsequent success in life, was gained under very trying condi- tions. When he was ten years of age he attended a private night school in New York City for about six months, paying a dol- lar a month for the priv- ilege. Subsequently he entered an English night school in the same city, but his lack of means conspired with his desire to get a firm grip on the ^j r pQNTANA American language to force him into the task of educating himseli. For a while during this schooling he sold papers and worked in an umbrella factory in the day time, but about the year 1861 he struck the first turning point on the rocky road and moved into smoother traveling as office and general utility boy in the fruit and commission house of West, Titus & Co. Here in a few years he rose to the position of salesman. In 1867, catching the "gold fever," he started for California, and on Jan- uary 3 of the following year reached San Francisco with one hundred dollars carefully fastened in one of his inside pockets. The "gold fields," however, on closer in- spection, proved disappointing. Disgusted at the outlook, he advertised in the papers for "any kind of work," but received no re- sponse. Chancing one day upon a young man whom he had known in New York, he made a defensive and oiifensive alliance with him to support each other until one of them should find employment, Fontana doing the supporting while his companion occupied himself chiefly in painting word pictures of the "hard times." As his little roll was about to disappear under the double strain imposed upon it, the companion told Mr. Fontana of a "job" to be had in a bar- ber shop of the Washington Baths. In his zeal to get it he promised the purveyor of the glad tidings ten dol- lars — on condition that his application proved successful. This it was, and involved, among oth er things, steady occupa- tion from 6 a. m. to 11 p. m., scrubbing floors, washing out bath tubs, and other edifying exer- cise. He endured this for about a year, and then drifted into the fruit busi- ness, in the employ of A. Galli & Co. In this he evidently "found him- self," for within two years he was admitted ^s a partner in the firm. In 1872 Mr. Fontana became a partner of C. M. Volkman in fruit and commission, but thinking that he could do better in the shipping business, he formed a partnership with G. Ginnochio, and subsequently bought him out. Later, in 1880, he shifted his operations to the canning industry and formed the firm of M. J. Fontana & Co., which in 1891 became Fontana & Co. In 1893, on the retirement of his associate, Mr. Cowing, he took in as partner S. L. Goldstein, and two years later William Fries. This combination sold in 1898 to the California Fruit Growers' Asso- ciation, of which Mr. Fontana is the General Superintendent, Wm. Fries President and S. L. Goldstein Treasurer. yir. Fontana served as a Supervisor under the Phelan administration. He is a director and member of the executive board of the California Fruit Canners' Association, Cali- fornia Wine Association, Italian and Ameri- can Bank, the E. B. and A. E. Stone Co., Italian-Swiss Agricultural Colony, and a member of the San Francisco Commercial and the Olympic Clubs. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 167 M IBSON, JAMES ALEXANDER, Lawyer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Boston, Mass., August 21, 1852, the son of Thomas Gibson (killed in Battle of Bisland, La., April 13, 1863, in a Massachusetts regiment) and Mary (Berry) Gibson. Judge Gib- son has been twice w«d, his first wife being Sarah Waterman, whom he married at Colton, Cal., June 21, 1882, and who died in December, 1888. He mar- ried again July 18, 1894, at Los Angeles, Miss Gertrude Van Norman. By the first union there were two chil- dren, Mary and James A., Jr., and by the second two, Martha and Horace V. Gib- son. Judge Gibson received his primary education in the pub- lic schools of Massachusetts, where he made some prepara- tion for a course in mechani- cal engineering for Cornell University, but did not enter. Instead, he took up the study of law, and in 1874 removed from Cambridgeport, Mass., to Colton, Cal., where he continued his readings under William Gregory, formerly a member of the Philadelphia Bar. He completed his stud- ies in 1879, and on June 13 of that year was admitted to practice at San Bernardino, Cal., in the Eighteenth Judi- cial District. On June 28, 1880, he was admitted to practice by the Superior Court, and April 19, 1882, before the State Supreme Court of California. At a later date he received recognition by the Federal Courts and the United States Supreme Court. Judge Gibson has practiced law continually with the exception of six years when he served in judi- cial positions. He was Superior Judge of San Ber- nardino County from January 1, 1885, to May 14, 1889, and was a member of the Supreme Court Com- mission, predecessor of the Appellate Court, from the latter date until January 1, 1891, when he re- signed and located at San Diego. The career of Judge Gibson has been one of honor and accomplishment, and his exceptional tal- ents have marked him as one of the most thorough exponents of the law in the entire State. He has served in some of the most important litigations that have arisen in California during the thirty odd years of his practice, including corporation, water, mining, maritime and commercial actions. Judge Gibson has been associated always with men of reputation. At San Bernardino he was in JAMES A. GIBSON partnership with Major H. S. Gregory, General J. D. Boyer and the Hon. Byron Waters; at San Diego he was in association with John D. Works, present U. S. Senator, and H. L. Titus, under the title of Works, Gibson & Titus. This alliance continued from January, 1891, until 1892, when Judge Works, who had but previously finished a term as Justice of the Supreme Court, opened offices with his son. Judge Gibson and Mr. Titus remained together until 1897, when the former moved to Los Angeles, where he became associated with the late Hon. J. D. Blcknell and the late W. J. Trask, as Blcknell, Gibson & Trask, later merging with Messrs. Dunn & Crutcher under the firm name of Blcknell, Gib- son, Trask, Dunn & Crutcher. On the withdrawal of Judge Blcknell, several years ago. Judge Gibson became senior member of the firm, which since the death of Mr. Trask has been known as Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Judge Gibson has held nu- merous positions of honor in his profession. He was at one time president of the Los Angeles Bar Association and vice president of the American Bar Association. He was recently a member of the General Council of the latter organization, and is chairman of the Section on Constitutional Amendments of the California Bar Asso- ciation and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the L. A. County Law Library Assn.; he ranks high in the councils of the Nat. Geographical Society and the Archaeological Society of America, Southwest Chapter. Despite professional activity, Judge Gibson has found time to aid in military and civic affairs, and was one of the organizers and builders of the famous Bear Valley Dam at San Bernardino. This, the first great dam and reservoir built in the West for irrigation purposes, was put up by the Bear Valley Land and Water Co., the predecessors of the present Bear Valley Mutual Water Co., and pointed the way for tremendous development in the Southwest. He is also Interested in other large development projects. Judge Gibson, in the eighties, served as Major and Assistant Adjutant General of the First Bri- gade, N. G. C, and Engineer Officer of the same. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic Shrlner and an Elk and holds memberships in the California Club, Union League Club, Jonathan Club and the Gamut Club, of Los Angeles, and the Uni- versity Club of Redlands. 1 68 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY Bakersfield, Cali- There were two ORDON, FREDERIC VER- NON, Oil Investments, Los Angeles, California, is a na- tive of Missouri, being born in Montgomery City, on May 23, 1875. He is the son of B. F. Gordon and Margaret A. Gordon. He was married to Mary Smith Langdon at fornia, February 20, 1902 children, Ruth Langdon and Margaret E. Gordon, the latter deceased. Mr. Gordon moved to Los Angeles when he was eight years of age. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of that city, starting on his business career there. He entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, in July, 1891, beginning in the capacity of Assistant Operator and Ticket Agent, at River Station, Los Angeles, and continued as such for over a year. In 1892 he was advanced to Clerk of the Freight Depot, at that station. He was retained in this position until 1898, at the outbreak of the F. V Spanish- American date; Marloa on the date following; Bocave and Guiguinto on March 29; Mololos, March 31 ; Calumpit on April 25 ; Santa Tomas, May 4, and San Fernando on the 5th of May, 1899. Mr. Gordon was on duty under General MacArthur during his Philippine campaign. After the close of the war with the natives, he was mustered out in July, 1899. He took an active part in military affairs for a brief time following and was given the rank of Sergeant in December, 1898. On returning to Cali- fornia after the war, Mr. Gordon spent a short per- iod in Los Angeles, No- vember, 1899, then went to Bakersfield, California, with the Santa Fe Rail- road as a night operator. He was advanced to Cashier and was next made Assistant Agent. He remained with the Santa Fe until 1902, when he returned to Los Angeles, and engaged in the oil business. His first work in that line was in GORDON war. Mr. Gordon enlisted with the First Com- pany, Volunteer Signal Corps in June, 1898, at Los Angeles. Scarcely a month had passed from the date of his enlistment when he was advanced to the position of Corporal, July 1, 1898. In December, 1898, he was given the rank of Sergeant. He was de- tailed on several military expeditions into the interior of the Philippine Islands against the natives and took part in a num- ber of engagements, among which were the following: Manila, August 13, 1898; Laloma Church, February 5 and 6, 1899; Caloo- can, February 10, Tuluhan, March 25 : Polo, March 26, and Meyecanaghan on the same charge of a large organi- zation operating in the west side oil fields of Bakersfield until 1907, when he resigned to enter the oil business for himself. Mr. Gordon is one of the large oil land owners of the state, being interested in much of the choicest oil property of the Califor- nia oil fields. He is a Director and Assistant Secre- tary of the Thirty-two Oil Co., holds the same position with the Western Crude Oil Co., is a Director and Secretary of the Hale- McLeod Oil Co., of the Four Investment Co. and holds Directorship in the Regal Oil Co. Mr. Gordon is a member of the Union League Club, of Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco, of the Sierra Madre Club, Gamut Club, of the Annandale Country Club and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 169 RANK, ALFRED, Mining En- gineer, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 27, 1879, the son of Charles Frank and Amelia (Binger) Frank. Mr. Frank attended the public schools of Cincinnati, and from 1891 to 1894, was a student at the Cincinnati Technical School. He next entered University of Cincinnati, leaving there in 1896, whereupon he went to Cornell University and after two years was grad- uated with the degree of Civil Engineer. After his graduation from Cornell, Mr. Frank re- turned to Cincinnati, and was employed in the Main- tenance of Way Depart- ment of the Big Four Rail- road, for two months, but left that position to go with the Water Works Commis- sion, which was at that time building a new city water works for Cincinnati, as draughtsman and As- sistant Engineer. In January, 1900, Mr. Frank resigned his position and went west in the em- ploy of F. Augustus Heinze, the copper magnate, and the Montana Ore Purchas- ing Company. He located at Butte, Montana, as assistant mine surveyor, and from that time on held various positions with Heinze and associated companies in the development of the great copper business they controlled. At dififerent times he was mine foreman, mining engineer, Superintendent and Manager of the various works. During this period of his career, Mr. Frank attained prom- inence in the engineering world and became one of the most efficient mining men in the United States. He was elected County Surveyor of Silver Bow County, Montana, and served in that of- fice from 1903 to 1905, retaining his position with the Heinze mines. He was appointed chief engineer to F. Augustus Heinze in all of his enterprises in 1905. Mr. Frank was with Mr. Heinze during the celebrated war between the copper interests and took an active part in all the litigation between Heinze and the Amal- gamated Copper Company, when the latter was ALFRED FRANK battling for a monopoly of the copper output of the United States, and was a conspicuous figure in this notable fight until the settlement of it. During the years 1906, 1907 and 1908, Mr. Frank was principally employed in examining mining properties in various parts of the West- ern Hemisphere. His work carried him into the States of Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington, and sev- eral other western states. He made two trips to Alas- ka and spent considerable time in British Columbia and the Yukon territory. He also made an extensive tour of inspection of min- ing projects in Old Mexico. This work was done in the interests of the United Cop- per Company, Heinze and others and involved the ap- praisement of properties, and the opening of many new mines. In 1908, Mr. Frank be- came General Superinten- dent, of the Davis-Daly Copper Company, a post he held for two years, when he resigned to become gen- eral manager of the Ohio Copper Company of Salt Lake City, which office he still holds. In addition to this, Mr. Frank is Consult- ing Engineer to a number of other mining companies, among them the Davis-Daly Copper Company of Butte, Mont. ; Stewart Mining Company, of Wardner, Idaho, the Tuolumne Copper Company, of Butte, Mont., and the Southern Cross Gold Mining Company of Montana. Mr. P"rank is one of the most public spirited men in Salt Lake City and the engineering feats he has accomplished have, of themselves, been important factors in the progress of the State. By his work in association with Heinze and his present connections, Mr. Frank is known among mining men as one of the most thorough and capable experts in his line and milHons of dollars have been staked on his judgment. Mr. Frank is a member of the American In- stitute of Mining Engineers. He is also a lead- ing clubman, holding memberships in the Silver Bow Club, Butte Country Club, and the Elks, of Butte ; Alta Club, University Club, and the Country Club of Salt Lake City. 170 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ASTON, EDWARD EUGENE, /^■|% President Engineers' Exploration J\^ Company, Ltd., Los Angeles, Cali- ^"^^ fornia, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 5, 1878. His father is John Ammen Easton, Ph. D., L. L. D., and his mother Laura (Browder) Easton. Mr. Easton is descended from a long line of Ameri- can ancestry, dating back to the days when Mary- land and Virginia were first settled. His family both on the paternal and maternal sides fought through the Revolutionary War, and were prominent in settling up the country after the Republic was formed. Mr. Easton is also related to Admiral Dan- iel Ammen, U. S. N. On April 23, 1906, he mar- ried Elise Holliday at Berke- ley, California. Three chil- dren have been born, Nancy, Jean Elise and Edward Mon- tague Easton. Mr. Easton was educated in the public schools of Cin- cinnati, including the high school of that city. He went abroad and at Vienna and Paris studied chemistry and engineering (civil and min- ing) for a period of three years. Mr. Easton has experi- enced a very active and pic- turesque career, having been engaged as a war correspon- dent, explorer, author, engi- neer and in several other capacities in distant parts of the world. In his ex- plorations and travels he has visited a great many of the world's most inaccessible regions, including portions of Africa, South America, the Orient and other little explored countries. His first venture in the active business world was at Kansas City, where he followed newspaper work for the Kansas City Journal, and when the war with Spain broke out he was sent to Cuba as a certified special war correspondent for that publi- cation. Returning home, he was appointed private secretary in the Interior Department at Washing- ton, D. C, which position he resigned in 1899 in order to go with an exploring expedition into South Africa. While there he was made war correspon- dent during the Boer War for the New York Jour- nal, also for Harper's Monthly and Harper's Weekly. He had the distinction of being certified as a war correspondent by Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner of South Africa, and also later by President Steyn of the Orange Free States and by President Kruger of the Transvaal. In 1902, with the closing of the war, he resumed his exploration work, making an examination of the mineral deposits in East Africa and traversing the regions north of the Zambesi River. A year E. E. EASTON later he was given charge of an expedition in the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo for a French-Dutch syndicate. His success was such that in the year following he was detailed on a similar expedition to the famed Atlas Mountains and along the north- ern border of the Sahara Desert. In 1905 he ex- plored the jungles of Spanish Honduras, known as one of the most dangerous regions for a white man in all the world. After spending a brief period in New York he moved to Los Angeles, Cali- fornia in 1906, and since that time he has made that city his permanent residence. He has written consider- ably for magazines and peri- odicals, contributing such articles as "Inside the Boer Lines" (Harper's Month- ly, 1900), and the "Battle of Pepworth Hill" (Harper's Weekly, 1900). His achievements since moving to Los Angeles have been largely in California and in the northwestern re- gions of Mexico. Two of his best accomplishments were the securing of the Cinco Minas Mines, located in the far Hbstotlpaquillo district, Jalisco, Mexico, for a syndi- cate of Eastern capitalists and the purchasing of 32,000 acres of land in the Colorado River delta. This territory lies in the heart of the Im- perial Valley region, and as a result of his work he was honored with the presidency of the Imperial Valley Land and Irrigation Company of Lower California, S. A. Mr. Easton sold one-half of this land to John Cudahy, the packer, while the remaining portion he has retained in his own corporation. He owns a controlling interest in this company. As an explorer, war correspondent and author he has seen and written about many of the most in- teresting movements of the present day, including two modern wars. His scientific research work has brought him under the notice of the foremost scien- tists and engineers of the day. He is president of the Engineers' Exploration Company, Ltd., and is a leading spirit in the life of that organization. He is a member of the National Geographic Society; his work in exploring many of the unknown por- tions of the world having won him an enviable po- sition among the members of this society. Mr. Easton is now permanently located in Los Angeles, where he continues to carry out his liter- ary and scientific pursuits as well as the more prosaic business undertakings. He takes an active part in the welfare of his home city and is a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Mines and Oils, and of the Jonathan and Gamut clubs of the city. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 171 ELLMAN, MARCO H., Banker, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born in that city, September 14, 1878, the son of Herman W. Hellman and Ida (Heimann) Hellman. His father was one of the pioneer business men of Los An- geles and, at the time of his death, was con- sidered its leading banker and one of the wealthiest men in the Southwest. Marco H. Hellman married Reta Levis of Visalia, Cal., at Los Angeles, June 10, 1908, and to them was born one child, Herman Wallace Hellman. Mr. Hellman was edu- cated in the public schools of Los Angeles and later attended Leland Stanford University. After which he started his banking career with the Farmer? & Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles. He worked there in various minor positions for a peri- od of time and then v/as made assistant cashier of the institution. He re- mained with that bank for about six years and later resigned to accept a posi- tion as assistant cashier of the Merchants Na- tional Bank of 'Los An- geles. He held that position with credit and soon was promoted to cashier, holding that office until he was made vice president of the bank, an active position he now holds. He is now president, vice president or director of twenty-one banks and nine in- dustrial corporations and is one of the exec- utors of the great Herman W. Hellman estate. Coming from a family rated among the richest in the United States, it is natural that Mr. Hellman, although a young man, should have attained a position of prominence in the financial world. His father before him was a positive financial genius, and when he died, had a multitude of interests, banking, real estate, oil, corporation, etc. As executor of the vast estate of his father, it is necessary that Mr. Hellman be an active participant in a great many cor- porations, and this matter of necessity, com- bined Avith his native abilitv as a financier MARCO H. HELLMAN and business man, puts him in the position of being the most active young banker in the State. As a matter of fact he holds more offices in banks and corporations than any other three men in Southern California. Mr. Hellman has always been too busy to engage actively in the political life of his native city, but he has not lacked in civic pride. He is always among the first men to help any movement for the advancement of Los Angeles. For instance, when the Owens River Aqueduct project was proposed and money was needed, and the Eastern syndicate only accepted its allotted portion, Mr. Hellman took over and sold the re- maining portion of the bonds for the city, a transaction involving at least a million dollars. With the money obtained so promptly, the city was enabled to go ahead with its work of improvement and the Owens River aqueduct, a remarkable engineering work, soon will be supplying pure water, not only to the City of Los Angeles, but to many towns and vil- lages in the vicinity of the city. An interesting incident in the life of Mr. Hellman is that he has spent practically all his days in one spot in Los Angeles. He was born in his father's old mansion at Fourth and Spring Streets, when that corner was part of the residential section of the city. To- day it is in the very center of the business district and in place of the home, with its wide spread of lawn, where young Hellman played as a child, there stands the towering skyscraper, the Herman W. Hellman Build- ing, an imposing monument to the work of his father in Los Angeles. Mr. Hellman is one of the most popular young financiers in the country and is a member of many clubs. His Los Angeles af- filiations are the Jonathan, Concordia, Union League, Federal and San Gabriel Valley Country Clubs. In addition to these social organizations, he is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a Mystic Shriner and an Elk. 172 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY URCHAM, CHARLES A., Mining operator, Los An- geles, California, was born November 6, 1859, at Vallejo, California. His father was John Uurcham and his mother Almeda (Tay- lor) Burcham. On December 10, 1887, Mr. Burcham married Dr. Rose La Monte in Los Angeles. Mrs. Burcham is a business woman who takes an active part in her husband's mining interests and at the same time is a brilliant society and club woman. Mr. Burcham was reared in Northern Cali- fornia and his education was obtained in the pub- lic schools of San Fran- cisco. Following the com- pletion of his grammar school education, he took a brief course in a Bay City business college. His first business en- terprise as a young man was launched at San Ber- nardino, California, where he entered the stock and cattle raising business. For twelve consecutive years he raised and shipped cattle and import- ed Arizona herds at the headwaters of the Mo- jave River, about twenty miles north of San Ber- nardino. Mr. Burcham owned and operated over 4000 acres of range and grazing lands with approximately 2000 head of cattle. As a con- sequence of his stock business, he eventually opened a wholesale and retail provision con- cern in San Bernardino, which flourished with the same success as did his stock rais- ing project. He continued in this business up to 1894, when he disposed of all of his cattle and ranching interests in order to devote his time to mining which in that neighborhood seemed to offer a better field. He went to the neigh- borhood of Randsburg, California, in 1894, and for some months studied the mining conditions of that district. He made a num- ber of mining explorations about this time, but none of them seem to have met with success. In company with two associates, John C. A. BURCHAM Singleton and Fred M. Mooers, Mr. Burcham went on a prospecting trip into Kern County with the expectation of remaining on the desert for some time. On April 25, 1895, th( party, after wandering on the Mojave Desert for many days, came suddenly onto free gold in paying quantities at the foot of some low hills and farther up, discovered the wonder- ful quartz deposits that were soon to be known to miners through- out the West as the cele- brated Yellow Aster Mine. The men were jubi- lant over the discovery and returned to Rands- burg for the purpose of organizing a company. This they did and today the corporation is known as the Yellow Aster Min- ing and Milling Company. The directors and officers of the corporation are John Singleton, Presi- dent; Chas. A. Burcham, Vice-President; Dr. Rose L. Burcham, wife of Mr. Burcham, Secretary ; C. H. Mooers, Second Vice- President, and Ward Chapman, Attorney. It is a close corporation anl all of the directors are residents of Los Angeles. Over two million tons of ore, averaging three dollars a ton, have been taken from the Yel- low Aster and about 8,000,000 tons already blocked out remain to be mined and milled. Mr. Burcham spends a greater portion of his time at the mine, while his wife tends to the business end of the enterprise in the Los An- geles office. Mrs. Burcham is one of the most remarkable business women in the West and in addition to holding a degree in medicine, is a contributing influence in the success of her husband's investments. Mr. Burcham is also President of the Cal- ico Mining Company, President of the Rand Mercantile Company and holds the same of- fice in the Phoenix Development Company. His interests are all located in the Southwest where he has large real estate holdings. He is a member of the Jonathan, and Cali- fornia Clubs of Los Angeles, is an Elk and a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 173 AXEY, JOHN J., capitalist, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Ireland, having been born in Tipperary on June 14, 1839. His father was Patrick Maxey and his mother was Margaret (Slingsby) Maxey. Mr. Maxey married in Atchison, Kansas, February 10, 1865, Miss Anna Burk. Six children have been born to them. When he was four years old Mr. Maxey was brought to the United States and lived at St. Joseph, Missouri, where he grew up, and attended the public schools of that place until 1859, when he launched out for himself into a career which was to be marked by extraor- dinary activity and adven- ture. His first business ex- perience was in engaging in the wagon and carriage business in Western Mis- souri. He prospered, but the Civil War brought disorder and uncertainty in the region he was working in, and he was forced to abandon his ef- forts as an independent dealer in the towns where he had opened his busi- ness ; soon the struggles going on through the country caused him to return to St. Joseph, where he was obliged for a time to work as an employe in a wagon and carriage concern. In the year 1861 there were two avenues which engaged the attention of men of bold activities ; one was the South; where the con- flict was being waged, and the other was the then really wild West, with its mysteries and its promises of wealth. Mr. Maxey chose the latter, and in that same year left St. Joseph with a party who made Denver their object, and their means of transportation were wagons drawn by oxen. On arriving at Denver Mr. Maxey at once found an opening for the knowledge he had already gained ; he set up in the blacksmith- ing and wagon business, making the outfit- ting of "prairie schooners" a large part of his business, for at that era Denver was the out- post and outfitting point for those who had in view the hazardous journey to California. In 1862, when Mr. Maxey was but twen- ty-three years of age, he was engaged by the famous Ben Holliday as a mechanic, going back and forth with the Holliday stages shoeing their horses and repairing the coaches. That was the time of adventure with the hostile Indians, and Mr. Maxey had his share of those perils in his trips from the Missouri River to California ; in the win- ter of 1865 he was en- gaged in a running fight with Indians in the now staid and commonplace region between Denver and Atchison, Kansas, and to save his life had to lose the coach. In the spring of 1866 Mr. Maxey engaged again in coach repairing and general blacksmith- ing in Denver, but in 1868 became associated as a partner in business with W. J. Kinsey. In 1868 this association was dis- solved and Mr. Maxey went into business again for himself, adding farm implements to his stock. At the same time he en- gaged in the livestock JOHN J. MAXEY u'^TT °" ^ 'f ^' '^"""^ ■' •' he had acquired. So well did he prosecute his affairs that in 1876 he sold out his varied interests and moved to Los Angeles. After arriving in Cali- fornia he found a pleasant occupation in orange culture, and in looking after his per- sonal interests, which consist of large estates in Denver and Los Angeles. All of his property Mr. Maxey adminis- ters through the J. J. Maxey corporation, of which he is president. He is a man of most entertaining charac- ter. His stories of the pioneer days would form the most interesting reading for future generations. He had an intimate acquaint- ance with most of the noted characters of the AA'^est, men we can but hear about now or see imitated in a Wild West show. He possesses an intimate knowledge of the early Los Angeles and remembers well the small beginning of most of the great financial institutions of that city. 174 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ARSH, MARTIN CHARLES, Con- M^ tractor, Los Angeles, California, I was bom October 16, 1851, at ™ Grosse Isle, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Martin L. Marsh and Mary (McKenna) Marsh. Mr. Marsh married Miss Mary Agnes Fox In San Fran- cisco, California, on May 6, 1878. Four children have been born to this union — John Dumont, Martin C, Jr.; Edward B. and Georgina M. Marsh. After a primary education derived from the Thome School, the Christian Broth- ers' School and the Jesuit College in Quebec, Mr. Marsh emigrated to the United States and for a short time was a student at the College of the City of New York. He engaged in the hotel business and followed this occupation for twenty-two years in the most noted ho- tels of New York, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and other cities. Mr. Marsh began this long and successful hotel ca- reer as an elevator boy in the service of the famous old Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York In 1864, in the days when that house was the greatest hotel in the United States. By 1868 he had ad- vanced to the capacity of clerk at the St. Charles Ho- tel, New Orleans, La. Then he became clerk of the West End Hotel at Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1869, in the days when Long Branch was the greatest resort in the United States, and was cashier in the Brevoort House in New York from 1870 to 1876, when he became steward of the Buckingham Hotel in New York, and in the latter year, his fame hav- ing reached San Francisco, he was brought to that city under contract to serve as clerk of the Occi- dental Hotel, where he remained for two years, and where he made the acquaintance of the most noted men of California of the early days. He then became manager of the Tamalpais Hotel at San Rafael for the summer of 1879. Mr. Marsh went to Los Angeles in 1880 and at once took charge of the much noted hostelry at that time, the Pico House, as proprietor, where he remained until 1882. In those days the Pico House was the scene of the greatest social and political events of the Southwest. As a result of a constantly successful occupa- tion during the past years, Mr. Marsh had accumu- lated a considerable capital and was occupied in MARTIN C. MARSH divers manners from 1882 until 1887, when the wonderful strides being made by the city induced him to enter the contracting business. This established his natural bent and capacity for such work, and his name soon sprang into prominence, and he was associated with most of the important works undertaken in Southern California. In 1890 he became associated with Mr. Adolph Ramish, and since that time his efforts have been largely devoted to railway construction, though in street and boulevard projections his work has been notable. As Highway Commissioner he supervised the construction of Sunset boulevard, extend- ing between Los Angeles and Hollywood. The Randsburg Railway work was under Mr. Marsh, a bit of construction through a desert country that re- quired resources and courage to build. Mr. Marsh's firm also constructed two sec- tions of the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific Railway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. In fact, there are few towns in Southern California which have not called upon Mr. Marsh and his associate at the initiatory stages of de- velopment for quick and ex- tensive work of roadway or railway. Mr. Marsh has always taken an interest in politics and has assiduously sustained his views as a Democrat. He served as a member of the Board of Educa- tion, representing the Second Ward of the City of Los Angeles for two years. He was State Commissioner of the Sixth Agri- cultural District for eight years, serving under the administrations of both Governor Budd and Gov- ernor Henry T. Gage. More recently he completed a term as Highway Commissioner for the County of Los Angeles. Mr. Marsh formerly was vice chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee and served as a member of that committee for twelve years. He has served as chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, as well as secretary of that body, and was three times chairman of the Demo- cratic City Central Committee of Los Angeles. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, the Jef- ferson Club and the Order of Elks, and is president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Loretto Parish. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 175 ACMILLAN, JAMES HARRY, mining, resides at Berkeley, Cal. He was born at Unionville, a min- ing camp of Nevada, June 22, 1878. His father was Judge James H. Macmillan, one of tlie most prominent lawyers of the inter-mountain country and the leader of the Democratic party in Nevada for years. Judge Macmillan held many political offices and was Supreme Judge and candidate for Senate on that ticket during the days when Nevada was strictly Republican. He died in 1897. Mr. Macmil- lan's mother was Alice Ann (Price) Macmillan, born in Iowa. Mr. Macmillan was edu- cated in the schools of Ne- vada and Utah and at the age of nineteen entered the employ of the Salt Lake "Tribune," where he stayed one year. He then went to Butte, Mont., in the employ of the Butte "Inter-Moun- tain," later going to Ana- conda, Mont., as city editor of the Anaconda "Standard." In 1901 Mr. Macmillan went to Helena, Mont., where he had the Helena Theater under lease for two years. He started and owned the pioneer vaude- ville and moving picture house in Helena, but in 1904, when the great mining ex- citement of Goldfield and Tonopah started, he disposed of his Montana interests and went with the first rush back to his native State. In February, 1905, in Goldfield, he, with others, started the pioneer dally newspaper and called it the Goldfield "Sun." It is now the Goldfield "Tribune," the only newspaper in the famous min- ing camp. The "Sun" was a pronounced success financially, and Mr. Macmillan disposed of it only for the reason that he could not resist the tempta- tion to join the mining rush to Manhattan, North- em Nevada, in 1906. In Manhattan he promoted with unusual success two of the best mining companies of that camp. Later he returned to Goldfield, where he with his partner, George B. Holleran, promoted the Mohawk- Jumbo Lease Co.., which in a period of twelve months produced $1,129,000. With Mr. Holleran he next incorporated the National Mining Co. of Ne- vada, in Humboldt County, of which he was presi- dent and owned a full third interest. This formed the great mining disappointment of Mr. Macmillan's career. To him the property was one of the most promising he had taken occasion to examine. He made a careful study of it from every angle, and the more he studied it the more promising it looked, in his practical judgment. He had his engineer report on the property more for the benefit of his associ- ates than himself, and to his dismay the report was decidedly adverse. However, his faith in his own practical judgment was too strong to be easily shaken and he went ahead with his arrangements JAMES HARRY MACMI'LLAN for payments and development. He again listened to the requests of his associates to have his engi- neer once more examine and report on the prop- erty. This the engineer did, so strongly affirming his first report that Mr. Macmillan reluctantly let it go by default of his last payment of $10,000. Chi- cago Board of Trade brokers made this last pay- ment, took over the property, and within sixty days had taken out $100,000. In less than two years the National Company has produced $3,000,000 and has, according to its engineers, $5,000,000 in ore blocked out ready for extraction. Its stock is now selling on a basis of $6,000,000 for the property. Thus has Mr. Macmillan's judgment on the claims comprising the National ground been fully vindicated. His belief at that time that a technical mining knowledge was better on which to base his invest- ment than his own practical mining knowledge caused him, within the space of a few hours, to throw over the principal ownership of one of the big producing gold mining properties of recent mining history. Mr. Macmillan's present property holdings in Manhat- tan adjoin those of the Big Four Company, which is pay- ing quarterly dividends. He is developing his estate there on the leasing system, with indications of pronounced success. Mr. Macmillan has been a picturesque figure in most of the mining camps of the West for the past twelve years, being always among the first in the mad rush to new camps. But it was not as a prospector. His particular work was in outfitting exploration parties in the interests of his companies, and later in developing the claim. His firm's books show more than a million dollars ex- pended in exploration and development work. Mr. Macmillan took up his residence in Los An- geles, Jan. 1, 1909, but previous to that had estab- lished a residence for his mother in Berkeley, Cal., where he has made other realty investments for her, and he now makes that beautiful university town his home. There in the University of Califor- nia, and at Stanford University at Palo Alto, he Is giving every advantage of education to his younger brothers and sister, a work that has constituted one of his principal ambitions in life. His only sister. Miss Jean Campbell Macmillan, is a young writer of fiction and has had a number of her recent ef- forts published in leading magazines. Mr. Macmillan's elder brother, of the legal firm of Howat & Macmillan, is one of the leading attor- neys of Salt Lake City. Mr. Macmillan operates his mining properties under the firm name of the J. H. Macmillan Com- pany, of which he is president and manager. He is a member of the Mine Operators' Association of Nevada. 176 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ROWN, FRANK LAMPSON, Capitalist, San Francisco, California, was born at Ken- osha, Wisconsin, March 4, 1860, the son of Charles Cur- tis Brown and Katherine Jane Brown. He married Harriet Walker at Oakland, Cali- fornia, January 1, 1894, and of their union there have been born three children, Kath- erine (now Mrs. Thorn- ton White), Lawrence Walker and Harriet Walker Brown. He began at an early age to fight the battles of life and has been at it ever since, and has been with a constantly enlarg- ing field of operations, as well as a considerable number of victories to his credit. Leaving the St. James Parish School, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when he was just twelve years of age, he found employment in the gen- eral offices of the North Western Telephone Com- pany, at Kenosha. The following year he shifted the scene of his youthful activities to the office of the North Western Wov- en Wire Mattress Com- pany, and remained with this corporation for ten years, getting his commercial experience and taking his course in what he has called the "University of Hard Knocks." With a degree, of useful knowledge at least, of what the struggle for success means, he moved in 1883 to Portland, Oregon, where he became Secretary of the Staver, Walker Company, and when the firm was succeeded by Mitchell, Lewis and Staver, retained his secretaryship in the new company. He was also made secretary of the Portland Trac- tion Company — to the considerable increase of his income and of his opportunities. In 1893 Mr. Brown moved to San Fran- cisco to act as Pacific Coast agent of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company of Worcester, Mass. This was succeeded by the American Steel and Wire Company, with which he remained as Pacific Coast manager until 1900. He then became general sales agent for the Shelby Steel Tube Com- pany, with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. He had not been in Oakland long, however, before his ideas began to expand, possibly under the influence of the climate and the contagion of progress ; and in 1903 he organ- ized the Pacific Steel and Wire Company for which he became the general manager. With this fresh stimulus to larger endeavors he soon formed the Telephone Electric Equip- ment Company; and later seeing the great promise of the oil fields, and of the development of power in California he organized the Palmer Oil Company, the Great Western Power Company and many other large corporations. Mr. Brown has been very active in develop- ment and construction work that will benefit not only the individuals most directly concerned, but also the state at large. And this is especially true of his connections with the preparations for the Panama-Pacific Ex- position. From the start he has been a member of the executive and ex- ploitation committees, so ardent and busy in the cause that his own im- portant private affairs have suffered somewhat. Characteristically, he has devoted his ener- gies to the work, and regards whatever suc- cess he may attain therein as a personal as well as a civic duty and triumph. And in the meantime he manages to prove his good citizenship by his activity on the executive committee of the California Development Board, and on the council of the Unitarian Club of San Francisco. Mr. Brown's club life is no exception in the variety of his interests. He is a popular member of the Bohemian, the Cosmos, the Commercial, the Unitarian, Union League and Press Clubs of San Francisco, and of the Claremont Country Club of Oakland, the Arlington of Portland, Oregon ; the Lawyers of New York, as well as of the Society of Colonial Wars and Sons of the American Revolution. Though a San Franciscan in spirit, he has resided in Oakland since 1893. FRANK L. BROWN NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 177 OLE, LOUIS, M., Merchant, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Chicago, Illinois, born March 24, 1870. His father is Dr. Samuel Cole, of Chicago, Illinois, and his mother Ricka (Din- kelspiel) Cole. On January 6, 1904, he mar- ried Frida Hellman at Los Angeles. Mr. Cole received his early education in the Grammar and High Schools of Denver, Colo- rado, and later took a business course at the Bryant and Stratton Busi- ness College in Chicago. In 1887, he moved to California and entered the employ of the Kutner- Goldstein Company at Hanford, as bookkeeper. He remained at that point in this capacity and that of manager until January, 1892, when he was ap- pointed to the position of manager of the compa- ny's branch store at Fov/- ler, California. He re- mained there a few months and then was shifted to Lemoore, Cali- fornia, to take charge of another store for the same company. He managed that business until 1896, when he resigned to go into business for himself. He opened a general merchandise store at Huron, Fresno County, California, and soon built up a lucrative trade. He tired of the small town, however, and in 1897, sold out and returned to his native city — Chicago. He remained in Chicago from 1897 until 1901 and for two years of that time, 1899 and 1900, was on the road for a Chicago house. In the month of January, 1901, he decided to return to California and settled at Bakers- field, occupying the position of general man- ager of another large merchandise concern. He held this place for more than two years and during that time did much to improve the business of his employer. October, 1903, Mr. Cole resigned his posi- tion in Bakersfield and moved to Los An- geles with the intention of starting business again for himself. After looking over his ground for two months, he bought into the Simon Levi Company, then in its infancy. LOUIS M. COLE He has been actively engaged in the afifairs of this company ever since and is at present treasurer of the company. When he entered the Levi Company, it was only a few months old, with a compara- tively small amount of business. Today it is one of the largest produce and grocer's spe- cialty corporations in the Southwest, doing a yearly business that runs far beyond the mil- lion dollar mark. The company has a subsidiary known as the Royal Packing Company and of this Mr. Cole is secretary-treasurer. Mr. Cole is a man of diversified interests, which cover many lines in Southern California. In addition to the Simon Levi Company, he is treasurer of the Herman W. Hellman Building in Los Angeles, one of the modern office structures of the city, having held the office since 1908. About a year after he was given this office he was made president of the Purcell, Gray, Jale Com- pany, Inc., a large insur- ance agency company op- erating in California and the entire Southwest. Another important con- cern with wnich Mr. Cole became identified in 1909, is the American Warehouse and Realty Company of which he is secretary. In the little more than seven years fol- lowing his arrival in Los Angeles, Mr. Cole has risen to a prominent position in com- mercial afifairs. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and was president of the Produce Exchange covering the years 1906-7 and 1907-8. He is an influential, pub- lic-spirited man who is doing much towards the upbuilding of Los Angeles. Mr. Cole has never held any political office, but has always taken a keen interest in politics and is a fighter for clean government. He is a member of the Cosmos Club of San Francisco and several clubs in Los An- geles, among them the San Gabriel Valley Country, Los Angeles Athletic and the Con- cordia. He is a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. 178 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY PRANK A. KEITH WALTER R. WHEAT EITH, PRANK ALLEN, Mining, Los Angeles, Cal., was born In the year 1870, at Detroit, Michigan, the son of John Wallace Keith and Pannle Louis (Allen) Keith. He married Susan Banwell in 1896, at Chicago, Illinois, and they have two chil- dren. Prank Allen, Jr., and John Banwell Keith. Mr. Keith was educated in the public schools of Detroit and St. Paul's Academy, of that city. Immediately after concluding his studies he went West and located in Colorado, where he be- came surveyor for the Iron Silver Mining Company, at Leadville. This was the beginning of a life that has been spent in mining and engineering work In Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. After leav- ing the Leadville company, he held successively the following positions: Engineer of the Eureka Hill Mining Company at Tin tic, Utah; ore pur- chaser, for the Arkansas Valley Smelting Company, at Leadville; assistant manager. Union Smelting Company at Leadville; engineer, De Lamar Nevada Mines Company, in Nevada; general superintend- ent of the Bamberger De Lamar Mines Company; engineer, Guggenheim Exploration Company; gen- eral manager, Tonopah Mining Company, of Ne- vada. These firms are among the most important in the mining industry of America and the offices he occupied have been among the most responsible. He remained in Nevada until 1908, when he moved to San Prancisco, where he opened offices as a gen- eral mining engineer. After two years he moved to Los Angeles. Mr. Keith is one of the leaders in his profession and is member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the Mining and Metallurgical So- ciety of America. He is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, California and Sierra Madre Clubs of Los Angeles and the Rocky Mountain Club of New York. HEAT, WALTER ROSS, oil and real estate, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born at Wheaton, Du Page County, Illinois, October 13, 1869. His father was Captain James L. Wheat and his mother Maria S. (Hart) Wheat. Mr. Wheat married at Los Angeles, June 14, 1909, Elizabeth Collins Crossley. They have one son, Gilbert Collins Wheat. Mr. Wheat attended the schools of Joliet, 111., and Racine, Wis., until 1887. He received his first busi- ness training in a severe twelve-hour-a-day school of a Boston wholesale produce house. Three years (1890-3) he devoted to the railroad business at Chi- cago in the auditor's office of the Railway Switch- ing Association at the Union Stock Yards, and with the General Manager's Association. In December, 1893, he went to San Prancisco, where he put in a year and a half in the wholesale meat business. In 1895 he moved to Los Angeles. During the fifteen years spent in Los Angeles Mr. Wheat's life has been a busy one, devoting his energies successively to the proprietorship of the Los Angeles Military Academy, secretaryship of the Abbot-Kinney Company during the building of Venlce-of-California, and at banking, real estate and the oil business. He drilled many oil wells in Los Angeles and Kern Counties. He was one of the pioneers of the Sunset-Midway field and organized many of the suc- cessful operating companies. He is vice president of the Bank of Venice and secretary of the following: Collins Oil Company, Thirty-two Oil Company, Wilson Oil Company, Western Crude Oil Company and Westside Oil Company. He is a member of the City Club, Chamber of Commerce, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Municipal League, Military Order of Loyal Legion and the Automobile Club of California. XOTABLES OF THE SOUTH IV EST 179 E. M. DURANT URANT, EDWARD M., Manufac- turer, Los Angeles, California, was born at Brooklyn, New York, In 1867. His father was Edward G. Durant and his mother Caro- ls line (Darling) Durant. He mar- ried Mary Case at Los Angeles, in 1893. They have three children: Harlan E., Raymond C. and Alice C. Durant. Mr. Durant was educated in the public schools of Racine, "Wisconsin, and in the Racine High School. His first business employment was with a large manufacturing plant in Racine, where he remained for three years. He moved to Los Angeles, arriv- ing there in 1887. Shortly after settling in Los Angeles he went into the business of manufacturing sewer pipe goods, with headquarters located in that city. He became interested in the Pacific Clay Manufactur- ing Co. of that city and remained with them for a number of years. During this time he worked in every branch of the business from mining clay and making pipe to a responsible position In the office. When the Pacific Clay Manufacturing Co. was bought by the Pacific Sewer Pipe Co., Mr. Durant was elected to the office of president of the new corporation. Since that time he has acted as President and Manager and during his tenure the Pacific Sewer Pipe Co. has acquired two large plants in Los Angeles, two at Corona and one at Elsinore, California. He is also interested in gyp- sum mining and is President of the Pacific Coast Gypsum Co. He has large clay deposits at Elsi- nore which supply the branch plant at that place. From a modest beginning and small capital he has built up one of the largest concerns of the kind on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Durant is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. J. J. DORAN OR AN, JOHN J., Stocks and Bonds, Los Angeles, California, was born in Perth, Ontario, Can- ada, August 31, 1870, the son of Judge John Doran and Mary Philomena (Lynn) Doran. His father took a prominent part in municipal affairs and for over twenty years was Judge of the Dis- trict of Nipissing, Canada. Retiring in 1888, Judge Doran went with his family to Los Angeles. The family, on both the maternal and the pater- nal branches, is one of the oldest in Canada. John J. Doran's paternal grandfather was one of the pio- neer merchants of Perth, Ontario; he lived during the Revolutionary War and saw fighting in the War of 1812. On the maternal side the family traces back five generations to the historic Bishop of Good- nough, of Carlisle, England. There have been many highly cultured and brilliant men on both sides, both in the old homesteads in England and in their new homes in Canada, men chiefly in the church and the professions. Mr. Doran took a French course in the Jesuit College, Montreal, later being graduated from St. Michael's College, Toronto, Canada.- His first busi- ness enterprise after arriving in Los Angeles was a book store. After several successful years he disposed of this interest to take up the brokerage business, dealing in investments, stocks and bonds, being one of the first established in this field. Mr. Doran is one of the most progressive citi- zens of Los Angeles, belonging to a number of or- ganizations which tend for the betterment of the city. He has earned the reputation of honorable and just dealings with his numerous associates and today is the head of one of the leading houses, dealing in listed and unlisted securities on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Doran is a member of the Knights of Co- lumbus and the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles. i8o PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY It ''^'^^^ HANK, EDMUND SIMP- ''. SON, real estate and mines, ^ Los Angeles, California, was M born at St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota, April 30, 1870, the son of John Wesley Shank and Susanna Cake (Brooks) Shank. He married Cathe- rine Hodge, at South Pasadena, California, June 29, 1907. Mrs. Shank is a talented singer whose charming voice has delighted many large gatherings. Mr. Shank began his education in the public schools of New York State, whither his parents had moved while he was a child, but at the age of seventeen years he quit his schooling temporarily and went to the Great Northwest. He spent four years on the plains of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska. He returned to his studies in the latter State, entering the Ne- braska Wesleyan Uni- versity at Lincoln, from where he graduated in the year 1893, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. Upon leaving Wesleyan he went East, with the intention of studying to be a physician and enrolled in Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. After pursuing medicine for one year, he left college to take charge of an exploring party in the wilds of Labrador for a syndicate of Eastern capitalists. Returning to the States shortly after- wards he went directly to Omaha, Nebraska, where he became a newspaperman in the business end of that profession. He con- tinued until the spring of 1896, when the "call of the wild" again stirred him and he determined to continue his exploration work. At this time he left for the Northwest, which he traversed during the following winter. He went as far north as Fort Simp- son, N. W. territories, Canada, coming out in the fall of 1897. He immediately returned to the North going by way of British Co- lumbia, entering Alaska late in 1897. In the following winter he crossed the famous Chil- E. S. koot Pass to Dawson and took part in the memorable Dominion Creek stampede. He later went down the Yukon river to Fort Yukon, thence up the Porcupine river for a distance of 475 miles where he built a log cabin, and spent part of the winter there. It was during that winter that Mr. Shank, in company with a Kogmolick Esquimaux, named Oonjyak, made his daring trip as far north as 79 degrees lati- tude. He traveled with thirteen dogs, and on this exploration venture, which was made for his personal information and knowledge, penetrated the unknown to the same de- gree of latitude that the Greely Expedition had reached. On returning, he rounded Lady Frank- lin Bay, completing a 1500-mile drive. Mr. Shank returned overland from the Far North to Dawson in the spring of 1899, and during this and the following year mined and explored on Dominion Creek. In the spring of 1900 he visited Nome, crossed Bering Sea to East Cape, Siberia, then made the trip south to the United States. He went directly to Los Angeles, where he SHANK has since been located. During his years of adventure in the Far North, Mr. Shank experienced hardships that are known only to the men who have braved the Arctic country. As an example of this he at one time walked with his blanket and gun from Fort Resolution, Northwestern Canada, to Edmonton, in the central part of the Dominion, a distance of over 1000 miles. He killed his food on the way and out-dis- tanced every danger. At a later time he crossed the Great Slave Lake in an Indian canoe with his blanket as a sail. In his ex- tensive travels over a greater part of the con- tinent, Mr. Shank has killed practically every species of North American game. He has given valuable aid to government parties in explorations and has done work for the Na- tional Geographical Society. He has hunted musk ox for the Metropolitan Museum. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST i8i PARKS, C. RANDALL EU- GENE, Attorney, Los An- geles, California, was born at Richmond, Virginia, Febru- ary 2S, 1876. His father was Charles David Sparks and his mother Frances (Randall) Sparks. Mr. Sparks comes from good old Virginia stock. His wife was Mar- cella Mae Elliott, whom he married in New York City Jan. 9, 1906. Mr. Sparks was edu- cated in the common schools of Virginia, at- tended the Richmond High School and later the Kentucky Military Insti- tute during the years 1891 and 1892. On moving to the State of Texas he at- tended the Baylor Uni- versity at Waco, Texas. In his teens Mr. Sparks decided to follow the law as a profession and set out at an early age. At the age of nine- teen he was admitted to the bar by a special act of the Texas Legislature. He was far ahead of the average young man of his age, and at the time when he passed the examina- tions for the bar was the youngest admitted attor- ney in the United State?. He was remarkably successful during his won for himself the terpretation of criminal laws. In 1896, when scarcely out of his teens, he was a pub- lic prosecutor of McLellan County, Texas. His keen insight into complicated criminal cases attracted the attention of Judge Hurt, the noted jurist. Chief Justice of the Court of Criminal Appeals, State of Texas. In render- ing an opinion in which Mr. Sparks had pre- pared the brief, Judge Hurt said : "It is sel- dom dangerous for this court to follow the reasonings of this lawyer. His interpretation of the statutes, principles of law and proced- ure are always without sophistry and gen- erally sound." In the case of Texas vs. Sam Cole, re- ported in forty-five Texas criminal appeals, in which the defendant was charged with kill- ing his father-in-law, the doctrine that a "wife is property" and the husband has a C. RANDALL first cases and reputation for in- right to defend her to the extent of taking the life of anyone who attempts to unlawfully detain her, was for the first time presented to the Court of Criminal Appeals, and held by that court to be a sound doctrine and the law of the land. In the case of the State of Texas vs. Wood, Vol. XXXII, page 47, Court of Crimi- nal Appeals, Mr. Sparks attacked the consti- tutionality of the statute making it an ofifense to "seriously threaten life," the Supreme Court sus- tained his contentions and the case, on statutes of like kind, has been quoted as authority in many of the States of the country. Another case of inter- est was that of the State of Texas vs. Will King, in which the defendant was charged with murder ; the higher court reversed the case several times and at each trial the Texas Rangers were sent by the Governor of the State to guard the prisoner and his attorney. Mr. Sparks was gen- eral attorney for Brann, the Iconoclast, and de- fended the survivor of the Brann-Davis duel. About 1900 Mr. Sparks became attorney for a large Texas cotton cor- poration and took up his residence in London, England. While in Europe he traveled ex- tensively and studied the cotton conditions in the vicinity of the Nile. After two years Mr. Sparks returned to the U. S. During a brief practice at Spokane, Wash., he was called as special Judge a num- ber of times. In 1901 he was oiifered the Consularship to Brussels, but declined. He went to Los Angeles from New York State in 1907. He is attorney for the Hotel and Restaurant Men's Association and the general attorney for the Morton L. Cook Co. and has represented a branch of the United States Steel Co. He has appeared for the Mascot Copper Co., which was represented by ex-Governor Gillett and T. J. McCauley of San Francisco. He is a member of the L. A. Athletic and City Clubs, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of the World. E. SPARKS l82 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY W. P. DUNHAM NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 183 UNHAM, WILLIAM PEY- TON, Mining, Los Angeles, California, was born Novem- 5-i& |^^^& ber 8, 1862, on a farm in Van ^^^^^J Buren County, Iowa. His father was William Pugh Dunham, born in Ohio, and his mother Catherine Elizabeth (Murphy) Dunham, born in Indiana, most of the ancestors coming from Virginia and New Jersey. He was married on December 24, 1887, in Chicago, to Susan Vermillion Whiteford, who was born in Junction City, Kansas, the daughter of John Xavier Whiteford, born in Three Rivers, Canada, and Aramenta L. (Wills) Whiteford, born in West Virginia. The couple have two children : James White- ford, born in Chicago in 1893, now associated with his father in his many mining enter- prises, and Virginia Susan Dunham, born in Los Angeles, California, in 1899, attending the Westlake School for Girls, in Los An- geles. Mr. Dunham received his early education in the public schools of Leavenworth, Kan- sas, and in the high school at that place. His first occupation was as clerk in the wholesale hardware house of J. F. Richards & Co. The concern was then doing business at Leavenworth, but later removed to Kan- sas City, Missouri, where it is now doing business as the Richards & Conover Hard- ware Company. Mr. Dunham remained in their employ until about 1884, when he left to embark in the hardware business for him- self at Belleville, Kansas, and did a fairly prosperous business for about seven years. In January, 1892, he sold out to engage in mining. He was then thirty years of age. He first went to Creede, Colorado. Remaining there only a short time, he entered the Crip- ple Creek district, where between the years 1897 and 1902 he engineered the sale of a number of the largest properties in that district. During that time he became interested in Arizona and in Old Mexico, and is now the president and principal owner of the Arizona Hercules Copper Company, whose holdings at Ray, Arizona, adjoin those of the Ray Consolidated Copper Company, the sale of which last he engineered at the time it was taken over by the present owners. The Arizona Hercules Copper Company is a property of enormous value, having de- veloped bodies of valuable ore of great mag- nitude. Mr. Dunham is also the president and principal stockholder of the Ray Develop- ment Company, and practically owns the town and the water system, which has just completed a five-mile fourteen-inch pipe line, with the first unit of 350,000 gallons of a 1,000,000-gallon reservoir. He is now completing in the town a three- story stone hotel that will have one hundred rooms and will be one of the finest buildings in the new State of Arizona. He is also constructing many new dwellings and build- ings. Mr. Dunham is the chief owner in various vast mining enterprises in Old Mexico, among which are the Cuyutlan gold mine, the California gold mine, the Belmont silver- lead properties at Santa Eulalia, the Fortuna and El Oro gold mines, and he is a large stockholder in the Consuelo Mining, Milling and Power Company and the Chihuahua Es- peranza gold mining property in the camp of Dolores. He is also vice president and the second largest stockholder of the Pinos Altos Mines Company, in the State of Chihuahua, the holdings of which company comprise about 40,000 acres of valuable mineral territory. Mr. Dunham is also president of the Medallion Oil Company, and is the largest individual stockholder. This company is at present drilling an enormous territory in the Kettleman Hills, south of Coalinga. Among the clubs of which he is a mem- ber are the California Club and the Sierra Madre Clubs, both of Los Angeles ; the Alta Club, of Salt Lake City, Utah ; the El Paso Club, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; the Rocky Mountain Club, of New York City, New York; the Arizona Club, of Phoenix, Arizona, and the Foreign Club, of Chihuahua, Mexico. Mr. Dunham is distinctly a self-made man, and is the leader of all enterprises in which he becomes interested. He maintains offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and at Ray, Ari- zona. i84 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ORSEY, HON. STEPHEN W., Engineer, Los Angeles, California, was born at Ben- son, Vermont, February 28, 1844. Went to Oberlin, Ohio, to attend school in 1858. He married Laura Biglow there in 1865, and has one son, Clayton C. Dorsey, a distin- guished lawyer in Denver, Colorado. On April 19, 1861, young Dorsey enlisted in the Union Army as a pri- vate ; saw three months' service, re-enlisted Au- gust 1, 1861, in the First Ohio Light Artillery ; was promoted successive- ly Corporal, Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain and Major, and was Lieuten- ant-Colonel in 1865, when he was twenty-one years of age. He was actively en- gaged in battles of Phil- lipi, Rich Mountain, Car- rick's Ford, West Vir- ginia, and at Fort Donel- son, Shiloh, Perrysville, Stone River, Chickamau- ga. Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, in division and corps of General George H. Thomas. Was trans- ferred to the Army of the Potomac, going east with Generals Grant and Sheridan in January, 1864, and took part in battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. In August, 1864, he went with the Sixth Corps to defense of Washington, and was in battles immediately adjoining Washington — Win- chester, Cedar Creek and all other engage- ments during the Sheridan campaign of that year. In January, 1865, returned to Peters- burg, and engaged in battles in the capture of Petersburg, of Sailor Creek, and finally of Appomattox. At the war's close he engaged in railroad construction in the West and Southwest, in which business he continued for many years. In 1870 he was appointed a member of the National Republican Committee. In 1876 he was chairman of the Executive Commit- tee of the National Republican Committee and conducted the Hayes-Tilden campaign. HON. STEPHEN W. DORSEY In 1880 he had entire charge of the Republi- can National Committee campaign that elected Garfield. In 1873, while actively engaged in rail- road construction in Arkansas, though not a candidate for the office, he was elected United States Senator in opposition to the "Carpet Bag Candidate," Thomas M. Bowen. Mr. Dorsey received the solid Democratic vote, as well as all of the old citizen Republican vote, aggregating one hundred and four votes in the Legislature out of one hundred and nine- teen. He took a con- spicuous part in the United States Senate ; on the first day of his ser- vices he was made a member of the Appropri- ation Committee, Chair- man of the District of Columbia Committee and a member of the Railroad Committee, which posi- tions he occupied during his entire service. In 1881, as a result of a bitter contest between the Blaine wing of the Republican party and the Stalwart-G rant wing, which Mr. Dorsey advo- cated, the Blaine party attacked him, charging him with frauds in the mail service. A trial lasting nearly a year followed, and the prosecution gathered over twelve thousand letters Mr. Dorsey had written, in the hope of finding something of a compromising nature, but failed. The United States Judge sitting in the case stated in his charge to the jury that there was nc cause of action and no evidence that Mr. Dorsey was in any way connected with any fraud or conspiracy. He was acquit- ted without the jury's leaving their seats. Since that time Mr. Dorsey has taken no part in public afTairs, devoting himself entire- ly to his private interests. He went to Los Angeles in 1898, and his long and honorable career makes him one of the most notable men in that city. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Cal- ifornia, Los Angeles Country and San Gabriel Country clubs, the Army and Navy Club of New York and International Club of London. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 185 RIFFITH, GEORGE PER- RY, Contractor, Los An- geles, California, was born in the historic town of Erie, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1868. He is the son of George P. Griffith and Ella (Richards) Griffith. He married Mary Matthews in 1893 at Scranton, Pennsylvania. There are two sons, Richard Matthews and George Perry Griffith. He derived his educa- tion in the common schools of Erie, Pennsyl- vania, where he spent the early part of his life. Mr. Griffith began his career as clerk in the Ma- rine National Bank of Erie, Pennsylvania, at the age of 15 years, and for two years following he continued his work in the financial house. In 1886 .Mr. Griffith gave up his position in the bank to embark in an- other line of endeavor. At that time asphalt was just coming into general recognition as a superior paving material, and the business offered to the young men of that day as much promise of for- tune as do some of the new things of today. The Barber Asphalt Company being the pioneer and largest asphalt con- cern in the United States, Mr. Griffith ob- tained employment with them in New York That was the beginning of his career as an asphalt man, and for fifteen years he re- mained with the original company. He started in a minor position, but by the time he left the company he was nationally rated as an expert on asphalt matters and was New York manager for the Barber corporation. The period during which Mr. Griffith was connected with the company was one in which asphalt made its greatest progress as an industrial element. He severed his con- nection with the Barber Company in 1901. At that time Mr. Griffith looked to the broad Western country for a new field. He left New York and settled in San Francisco, where he became associated with the Alcatraz Company, a concern of which he was made president and general manager. While in GEO. P. GRIFFITH charge of the affairs of this concern he han- dled numerous large contracts, but at the end of two years he yielded to inducements of- fered him by the General Asphalt Company of Philadelphia, and he went there to become one of the directing heads of it. This was the year 1903, and he spent the next twelve months in active operation of the company's business. His work in Phila- delphia added considera- bly to Mr. Griffith's busi- ness reputation, and when at the end of a year he resigned to accept an- other position his serv- ices were sought by vari- ous large asphalt con- cerns of the country. His two years in San Francisco, however, had put the love of the West in his blood, and when he received an offer from Seattle, Washington, he again renounced the East and headed for the big city of the North Pacific Coast. He bought an in- terest in the Independent Asphalt Paving Compa- ny and was elected presi- dent of that corporation. He also took the position of general manager of it. An attractive offer from Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, caused him to re- sign his Seattle office for the vice presidency of the Fairchild, Gilmore, Wilton Company of Los Angeles, where he settled permanent- ly at that time. Mr. Griffith is a man of good reputation in his line of work, being recognized as an authority in every branch of asphalt work. At the present time, in addition to his con- nection with the Fairchild, Gilmore, Wil- ton Company, he is president of the Hercules Oil Refining Company, and is vice president of the Reinforced Concrete Pipe Company, both of Los Angeles. He is a member of several professional organizations of the Pacific Coast, and has been for many years a member of the Engineers' Club of New York and of the Scranton Engineers' Club of Scranton, Penn- sylvania. He is a member of the California Club of Los Angeles. i86 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY REGORY, MILES S., Broker, Los Angeles, California, was born in Licking County, near Newark, Ohio, August 12, 1870. His father was Josiah Gregory and his mother Sadie F. Gregory. He is descended from a long line of fighting Americans who served in both the Revolu- tionary and Civil wars. The farthest dis- tant American ancestor of whom Mr. Gregory has any trace was James Gregory, who settled in America in 1696. How- ever, he can trace his family history back as far as 887, when the Gregorys were a mighty clan in Scotland. Mr. Gregory has been twice married, his second wife being Ivy Irene Trott, whom he married at Salt Lake City, Utah, March 4, 1908. By his first marriage there were two children, Miles S., Jr., and Marietta Gregory. He obtained his edu- cation in the common schools of Newark, Ohio, and a business college of that city. Although his father was in good finan- cial circumstances, young Gregory, at the age of seven years, began sell- ing newspapers and earned enough to keep him at school until he was seventeen years old. At that time he quit school and went on the road establishing libraries for the "Courier" of Newark. He was forced to re- sign this position six months later, when his father died, and the family moved immedi- ately to Chicago, 111. He went with the Santa Fe Railroad for a time, but resigned and engaged in the insurance business, his first commission being forty-five cents, which he has kept to this day as a memento. When he was nineteen years old he estab- lished a real estate business with Charles O. Nelson, under the firm name of Gregory & Nelson. After four months Nelson with- drew, at Gregory's request, and Gregory continued alone. He made a tremendous success until 1894, when the real estate busi- ness slumped. He then began the construc- MILES S. GREGORY tion of apartment houses for speculation and made a success of that until 1903, when he decided to leave Chicago for Los Angeles. For eleven years of the time he was in Chicago he took an active part in politics, and after establishing himself in the real estate business in Los Angeles he there en- tered the political field. He served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council during 1910 and 1911 and in 1911 was a candidate for Mayor. Mr. Gregory's suc- cess in Chicago business pursuits was more than duplicated in Los An- geles. Starting in the real estate business, he has added to that a stock and bond brokerage business and today is one of the successful men in that line in the city. He joined the Los Angeles Stock Exchange in 1906, and since has been an influential mem- ber of that body. At the present time he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ex- change. Aside from his brok- erage business, Mr. Greg- ory has participated in the organization of a number of other business enterprises. Among them are the Traders' Oil Company, of which he is a director, and the Johnnie Mining and Milling Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. Mr. Gregory has been progressive in poli- tics ever since he started as a young man back in Chicago. Since entering the political field in Los Angeles he has been an advocate for clean government, more parks and a com- plete boulevard system for the city. Another ideal of his is beautiful residence districts, and to advance this he purchased twenty-two residence lots near his own home, to be held without profit until the proper kind of homes are pledged to be built. He is secretary of the Union League Club of Los Angeles, and in addition holds mem- berships in the San Gabriel Country Club, the Elks, Mystic Shriners, Knights Templar, Masons and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 187 AMPBELL, KEMPER B., Attor- ney-at-Law, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born at Adel, the county seat of Dallas County, Iowa, July 5, 1881. In that county his father. Dr. Solon B. Campbell, was a practicing physician for twenty years and was prominent in educational circles. His mother was Sarah Caroline (Otterman) Campbell. At the age of four years he was sent to the public school of Adel, Iowa, and at eleven had entered high school. Upon the death of his father the family moved to Pomona, California, where he again entered school, graduating from the High School with an excellent record in 1899. In 1900 he graduated from Williams Business College and took a postgraduate course at the High School. He later grad- uated from Brownsberger Home School at Los An- geles. He accepted a position with the National Bank at Pomona, which he held until he moved to Moneta, Cal., where he was engaged in the canning business with his brothers, serving tor sev- eral years as Secretary and Superintendent of the Mo- neta Canning Co. In 1904 nis brother, Ver- non Campbell, having dis- covered and perfected the process of canning ripe olives, he became interested with him in the establishment of the American Olive Company, which, under their directorship, be- came the largest olive packing concern in the world. Mr. Campbell found the long awaited oppor- tunity in 1904 to enter the Law Department of the University of Southern California, which he did, graduating in 1907. During his college career he was voted every place of honor at the command of his fellow stu- dents and won all competitive prizes. He served in turn as President of his class. President of the student body. President of the Lyceum, President of the Phi Delta Phi and as Editor of the Law Department of the University Courier. For two successive years he won first place in debate over more than a score of con- testants, and successfully represented the Law College and University on the rostrum. The last year of his attendance he won first place in the College of Law in oratory. In scholarship he was awarded the Alumni gold medal for the highest average ever attained in the College of Law, which record still remains the high mark in that insti- tution. After graduating with the degree LL. B., he im- mediately opened law offices. In 1908 he became a member of the faculty of the College of Law, fill- ing the chairs of Torts and Damages. In 1909 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Laws. In 1910 he was also appointed instructor and lecturer on Real Property and pre- sided as Judge of the Practice Court. During the year 1910 he was elected President of the Alumni of the University of Southern California College of Law. Mr. Campbell is the author of a hand-book on "Torts," used in the College of Law, and has in prepara- tion a more elaborate text ji] thai, subject. He won his first laurels within six months after his admission in the successful defense of "Sig" Barbour, charged with the murder of Benjamin Johnson. Among others of his cases which have attracted considerable public attention are People vs. Ybarra and Griffith vs. Griffith. He early allied himself with the "Reform" forces in politics, winning his first victory litical largest county, when by changing the po- complexion of the p r e c i n ct in the In March, 1910, the Insurgents were KEMPER B. CAMPBELL marshalling their forces for the most strenuous cam- paign in the history of Cali- fornia, Mr. Campbell was unanimously chosen by the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republi- can League as Secretary and Campaign Manager for Los Angeles County, with supervisory duties in other counties South of Fresno. Containing a large portion of the entire Repub- lican vote in the State, Los Angeles County was recognized as the campaign battleground of the Republican State primary election. Given full leeway, he perfected an organization which was the envy and despair of the "machine" forces, the result being the nomination and elec- tion of almost the entire State, county and town- ship tickets of the League. Mr. Campbell was perhaps the least surprised of the leaders in the new movement when it was found that his organization also controlled the Los Angeles Republican County Convention by over one hundred votes. By winning this convention for the Insurgents, they were enabled co send to the State Convention at San Francisco eighty "Re- form" delegates, without whom the Stale Conven- tion would have been controlled by the "R'jgular" wing of the party. Mr. Campbell is Vice Pres. of the Metropolitan Club, Secretary of the Lincoln- Roosevelt Republican League and a member of the following: City Club, L. A. Bar Association, Califor- nia Bar Association, Gamut Club, Knights of Pyth- ias and Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi. 1 88 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY XEOD, JOHN MUNRO, real estate and oil operator, Los Angeles, Cal., is the eldest son of the late John Munro McLeod and Jessie Hunter (Brown) McLeod, both of Scotland. He was born in Strat- ford, Canada, November 3, 1871. He married Eva Ethel Largen at Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 26, 1898, and to them have come three children, Eva Ethel, John Munro, Jr. and Alfred Wellington McLeod. Mr. McLeod's father was a noted railroad builder and oil operator in Canada, hav- ing completed the construc- tion of the Grand Trunk Line from Sarnia to Toronto, later going into the oil business at Petrolia, Canada. He owned one of the first refining plants in America, selling his prod- uct to the Grand Trunk Rail- way, and from this It is ap- parent that the younger Mc- Leod had a good inspiration to guide him in the work of oil development, so it is not difficult to understand why he has become a leader in the industry. Mr. McLeod was educated in the public schools of New Westminster, going through the various grades, and tak- ing examination for the High School. At this point, how- ever, he entered commercial pursuits and opened a gen- eral store in his home city at the age of eighteen, and after a few years as a merchant, went in for dairying and farming in British Columbia, which business he followed for a number of years with marked success. Hearing of the great opportunities in Mr. McLeod disposed of J. M Southern California, his farming and dairy interests and in the summer of 1900 moved to Los Angeles. The southern metropolis was then entering on the boom period, and Mr. McLeod was one of the thousands who went there looking for an opportunity to invest. Shortly after his arrival his attention was drawn to the oil business, which he had followed closely for several years, waiting for a chance to get into it. His first venture was in the Kern River field, where he became interested in a small way, The oil business held Mr. McLeod for four years, and then he turned his attention to real estate, which was thriving at that time. He opened an office in Los Angeles in 1904, and later organized the firm of Wlnton & McLeod, going into real estate on a large scale. They opened up a number of large subdivis- ions in Los Angeles, among them the Calkins Pig- ueroa Street Tract, the Winton and McLeod Fig- ueroa Street Tract, and the Winton and McLeod Figueroa Tracts Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. During the Eastern money panic in 1907 it took all of Mr. McLeod's efforts to carry several syndi- cates of which he was the head, and after things became easier he withdrew from the active work ol the real estate business and made a complete sur- vey of the oil districts in California with one of the most competent geologists of the country. He sup- plemented this with advice from several of the older, practical oil men in the State. In his inquiry he visited all the principal fields, including Santa Maria, Kern River, Coalinga and McKittrick, and Investigated most fully what is known as the Midway Field, but which at that time was practically undeveloped. After studying forma- tions there, he arrived at a conclusion contrary to that of the oldest oil men of the district, who thought there was only a narrow strip in which was oil; his judgment and faith in that section have since been justified. He took a lease on forty acres, which now con- stitute part of the Hale-Mc- Leod property, but on ac- count of the adverse opinion of old operators, which was generally believed, he was unable to get necessary funds to drill, and so forfeited his hold on that piece of proper- ty; however he later again se- cured that same property, with additional territory, for the Hale-McLeod Co., and it is now conceded to be one of the best pieces of oil territory in California. The present sub-tenants, the Midway Pre- mier, Midway 5, and Kalispell Companies, all have weils that have been large pro- ducers. During 1911 a well belonging to the Kalispell Co. has produced at the rate of 2500 barrels a day. This body of oil lies below the salt water line, which It has always been contended by the oldest operators was the 'bottom-water" below which oil would never be secured. Vindications of Mr. McLeod's unfaltering belief in the field are the companies that went on the "flat" and have successfully operated, their stockholders having all been induced to enter the field at the instigation of Mr. McLeod. Mr. McLeod is Vice Pres. of the Hale-McLeod Co. and Four Investment Co.; Director and Mgr. Toronto Midway Oil Co. and Director 32 Oil Co., Director Edmunds Midway Oil Co., and heavily in- terested in the Esperanza Consolidated Oil Co. Mr. McLeod and associates have handled and financed a greater number of oil companies, com- bining a greater acreage, than almost any other company interested in the California oil fields. The acreage financed and operated through Mr. McLeod amounts to over 1700, and includes the wells of over twenty companies, representing a combined invest- ment of upwards of five million dollars. These achievements have placed Mr. McLeod among the real developers of the Southwest, and while he has made a large fortune for himself, he has also been the means of making others wealthy, and at the same time has added to the industrial strength of Southern California. He is a member of the Union League Club, of San Francisco; Union League, Sierra Madre, San Gabriel Valley Country, and the Los Angeles Ath- letic Clubs, all of Los Angeles. LEOD NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 189 ULLALLY, TKORNWBLL, assist- ant to the president and at pres- ent acting liead of the United Railroads of San Francisco, was born at Columbus, S. C, January 17, 1868, the son of Francis P. and Elizabeth K. (Adger) Mullally. His father, an Irish- man by birth, was a distinguished Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina, while his mother was an Adger, an old Southern family of that State. Their son Thornwell came to San Francisco from New Yorlc in 1906. Mr. Mullally attended Adger College, S. C, the Uni- versity of South Carolina and the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn. He was graduated from Yale in '92. While here he was an editor of the Yale Litera- ry Magazine, a member of the "Scroll and Key" Senior Society, and represented Yale in a debate against Harvard in 1892. The faculty awarded him the Thomas Glasby Waterman prize for scholarship, which was given to the man who, in addition to his general high scholar- ship, in the opinion of the faculty, gave the best prom- ise for the future. He was graduated from the New York Law School and sup- plemented that course at the Law School of the University of Virginia, following which he was admitted to the bar of New York City and became a member of the firm of Atterbury & Mullally. Until early in the year 1906 Mr. Mullally was an active practitioner in New York, where he became identified with important Interests connected with his legal duties, as well as independent of them. But, although he established in that city a reputa- tion for legal and executive ability, he was destined to play a leading part elsewhere as assistant to the president of the United Railroads of San Francisco. He moved to that city in 1906. As a record of achievement, both during and im- mediately following the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, the work of the United Railroads, as represented by its acting head, Thornwell Mul- lally, is unique in the annals of industrial accom- plishment. From the first moment of realization of what was happening he was the personification of courage, energy and decision. Almost immedi- ately he recognized the immense responsibility THORNWELL MULLALLY and obstruction of the days that followed he was obsessed with the sense of his duty to restore the transportation of the city of San Francisco. Mr. Mullally was appointed a member of the Committee of Fifty, which temporarily took over the government of the city. He converted numbers of nis uniformed carmen into patrolmen, who proved very effective in preventing disorder. As chairman of the transportation committee of the Committee of Fifty he was able to aid materially in the re- moval of debris and upbuild- ing the city, and by his he- roic efforts in saving some of the power houses from fire and dynamite and in pushing forward the work of reconstruction of the lines, it was possible not only to con- tinue a small part of the car service the day after the quake, but also, after the temporary cessation, to run the first car on Saturday, April 21st, or three days after the first shock. Through the Mayor, he placed the entire car service at the disposal of the city, and for days passen- gers were carried free of charge. He also brought in the first lot of food supplies to reach the city. To quote from General Greely's report: "Considering the difficulties encountered, the most re- markable accomplishment of reconstruction and re-estab- lishment of car service known in street railway his- tory was here exemplified by the United Railroads of San Francisco." Mr. Mullally has continued, in Mr. Calhoun's absence, to act as the latter's representative and head of the corporation. The property, it is con- ceded even by its enemies, is magnificently admin- istered. The rolling stock is of the highest grade and the service of the finest. He has taken an active part in the commercial and social life of the city, wherein he is known for his positive character, courtesy and tact. He is also a prominent and popular member of the leading clubs and associa- tions, both here and elsewhere, among them the University Club and Bar Association of New York, and the Pacific-Union, Bohemian, Family and Uni- versity Clubs of San Francisco. Mr. Mullally is a director of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a member of its various committees, acting director of concessions, and was active in Washington in securing recognition of the Exposition by the United States Govern- resting upon him, and through all the confusion ment. 1 90 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ILLER, A. BLANCHARD, President Fontana Develop- ment Company, Rialto, Cali- fornia, is a native of North Carolina, having been born at Richlands, that State, September S, 1878. His father was Joseph Kempster Miller and his mother Eliza (Blanchard) Miller. On his maternal side Mr. Miller is descended from Commodore Perry and Governor Salstenstall oi historic fame. Mr. Miller's early youth was spent in Washington, D. C, where he attended the public schools of that city. On settling in Cali- fornia in 1893, Mr. Mil- ler did some work in the high schools of Riverside County and prepared for a university course at Pomona College, Clare- mont, California. There are few men in the world who, at the age of thirty-three years, have achieved a success equal to that of Mr. Mil- ler. The history of his career is in many respects remarkable. The term "self-made man" is so well worn as to become almost trite, but here we may use it with all the significance it originally possessed. Mr. Miller started as a farmer in Cali- fornia, and therein his history is a repetition of that of some of the greatest names in American history. He became a farmer, in fact, when it took a tremendous amount of nerve. In 1897 he started out on an ambitious scale in the Perris Valley at raising grain. He succeeded. He succeeded because of his energy and indomitable determination to succeed. Four years later he enlarged the A. B. MILLER scope of his operations ten times what it had been originally, and planted five thou- sand acres in grain. Mr. Miller might still be a California farmer, and doubtless, judg- ing from what he has since accomplished, he would have been one of the leading farmers of the State, had not heavy droughts compelled him to go more cautiously for a short period. Tempo- rarily he combined con- tracting with his farm- ing operations. He leased the many head of stock which he had worked on the farm to a firm of contractors who were building a section of the Salt Lake Railway. Later he went to the Im- perial Valley, where he did some of the most important work done in that region. Mr. Miller was at- tracted to the Imperial Valley at a time when few, comparatively, even guessed at the future this wonderful expanse ol fertile territory was to have. He at once be- came a forceful factor in the great work of developing the Valley and constructed a large part of the canal system that today waters No. 8 Section. He also laid out and graded much of the ground on which the present town oi Brawley stands. A year later, that is in 1895, Ur. Miller associated with him E. D. Roberts, H. E. Harris, E. J. Eisenmayer and other San Bernardino men in land and farming inter- ests. Mr. Miller was the moving spirit in this association. With the large vision which character- ized him, Mr. Miller proposed and carried through the enterprise of leasing from the NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 191 Fontana Development Company, at that time controlled by the San Francisco Savings Union, eight thousand acres of that corpora- tion's land near Rialto, with an option to purchase. This was merely a step towards a mucL vaster deal, which was consummated when Mr. Miller, in company with the men al- ready mentioned, and Thomas F. Keefe, or- ganized the Fontana Land and Water Com- pany. Carrying out the plans as originated by Mr. Miller, the company immediately con- tracted to purchase the San Francisco Sav- ings Union's interests in the Fontana De- velopment Company. The company owned 19,000 acres of land in San Bernardino County and seventy-five per cent of the water flow of 'Lytle Creek. It would appear that Mr. Miller by this time had accumulated interests great enough to demand all of his time and marvelous energy, but he had already taken contracts to build for the United States Government the first levee on the Yuma project. The work along the Colorado River, for twelve miles below Yuma, stands today as a monument to the splendid character ol his work. While in Arizona Mr. Miller entered into negotiations with J. G. White and Com- pany of New York to take the construc- tion of the California side of the Yuma dam off their hands, and the deal was about completed when he had to give up the project owing to increasing interests in the Fontana Company. In 1907, or before he was thirty years of age, Mr. Miller purchased six thousand acres of the Lakeview Ranch, in Riverside County, which he had farmed in earlier, days, making the purchase from some score of litigants, some of whom had been trying for years to get their money out of what seemed a hopeless tangle. In the same year he organized the Nuevo Land Company and sold the Lake View property, now with a good title, along with the farming equipment, to that cor- poration. Two years later, Mr. Miller took what was perhaps the most significant step in his entire career, when he bought the Roberts, Harris and other interests in the Fontana Land and Water Company and associated with himself in that company F. H. Adams, E. J. Marshall and J. Torrance. At this time, following out the progres- sive policy of Mr. Miller, the company began to develop more water, starting with the construction of extensive irrigation sys- tems to water the lands. Since that time, so great has been the progress, Mr. Miller has given practically all of his time to the development of this land, constructing irrigation systems, mar- keting part of the property and making large plantations of citrus trees. During the last year over one thousand acres of orange and lemon trees were planted under his management, this numbering among the largest acreages ever planted by a single concern in one year's time. Anyone reading the history of this re- markable young man might regard it as a work of fancy, as an exhibition of enormous energy, daring and foresight which could scarcely be credited, were it not for the fact that the achievements of Mr. Miller are known of all men in this wonderful South- west. Among Mr. Miller's important interests and offices are : Fontana Development Company, President and Manager; Fontana Land and Water Company, President and Manager; Fontana Water Company, Vice President and Manager; Rialto Domestic Water Company, Manager; Lytle Creek Water Company, President. He is a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, the South Coast Yacht Club and the B. P. O. E. of Riverside. 192 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ROWNSTEIN, DANIEL J., Wholesale Merchant and Manufacturer, Los Angeles, Cal., is a native of California, having been born at Red Blufif, in the northern part of the State, Janu- ary 3, 1870. His father was Jacob Brown- stein and his mother Bertha (Newmark) Brownstein. On January 8, 1903, he married Caroline Blanchard in Los Angeles. There is one son, Robert Grant Brownstein. Mr. Brownstein spent his early youth in the north of California, par- ticularly around Red Blufif and in the moun- tainous regions just south of snow-capped Shasta. When the fam- ily moved to San Fran- cisco he attended the public schools of that city and entered the Boys' High School, where he was graduated in 1887. Shortly after finishing his studies in high school Mr. Brownstein moved to Southern California and settled permanently in Los Angeles in the latter part of the year 1887. His first and only work in the employ of others he obtained shortly after his arrival given a position in the wholesale house of Jacoby Brothers, pioneer clothiers of Los Angeles, and remained with that firm in va- rious capacities for eight years, or until the firm quit the wholesale business in 1895. With the retirement of the Jacoby Broth- ers from the wholesale field, Mr. Brownstein determined to take their places, and conse- quently he organized the firm of Brownstein, Newmark and Louis, his partners in the ven- ture being Henry W. Louis and P. A. New- mark. The three men were practical whole- sale clothiers and they combined their efforts to make the enterprise a success. Starting business in the old Baker Block, Los Angeles, with one room and a basement for their store, the firm expanded until it re- quired three stores and basements in the Baker Block to house its stock. At the end of ten years, or in 1905', the company moved to a new four-story building and has occu- pied it down to date. Mr. Brownstein's company added manu- facturing to their business about 1899, the de- partment now employing about four hundred people. The company now has under con- struction a plant which will be put into op- eration in 1912, giving employment to one thousand workers. On Jan. 1, 1911, Mr. P. A. Newmark, after an as- s o c i a t i o n with Mr. Brownstein and Mr. Louis for more than fif- teen years, withdrew from the firm, selling his interest to Mr. Brown- stein and his partner. The business was then incorporated under the style, Brownstein-Louis Company. Mr. Brownstein has been an important factor in the commercial and manufacturing develop- ment of Los Angeles and is prominently associated with everything that stands for the advance- ment of Los Angeles' business interests. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of D. J. BROWNSTEIN 2'^^ ^""^ ^P^' \}^}^' ■' he was chairman 01 the He was Committee on Mercantile Aflfairs and was the directing force in all of its activities and re- forms. During his retention of this office the committee was instrumental in the estabhsh- ment of rules and reforms of a progressive nature which now play an important part in the conduct of mining and oil affairs. He is also a prominent member of the Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers' As- sociation, having been on the roster of that organization since its formation fifteen years ago. He has always taken a deep interest in its affairs and is a liberal contributor in all matters that mean the upbuilding of the city. Mr. Brownstein is one of the leading Masons on the Pacific Coast and is a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- masonry. He is also a member of the Mys- tic Shriners and of the Native Sons of the Golden West. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 193 OLTERHOFF, GODFREY, JR., Assistant Treasurer of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1860. He is the son of Godfrey Holterhofif and Helena C. (Guysi) Holterhoff. He married Louise Schaeiifer, Sept. 5, 1889, at Los Angeles, Cal., and has one daughter, Leila S. Holterhofif. Mr. Holterhofif at- tended the public schools of Cincinnati and was graduated from the Woodward High School, that city, in the year 1877. Upon leaving school he went to work with his father, and stayed with him for the better part of a year, when he left to become bookkeeper for a large tobacco house in Cincinnati. He held this position for about a year also, but in October, 1879, his health became impaired and he decided to go to California. He located that same month at Los Angeles, subse- quently going to San Diego, and for more than a year was recuperating his health. In the fall of 1880, his strength having re- turned to him, he entered the railroad busi- ness as secretary to the managing agent of a syndicate which organized and built the California Southern Railroad. From this po- sition he became one of the most active men in the development of the new company and its successor, the Southern California Ry. Co. At various times he was in the office and lo- cal agent of the company at San Diego, in the engineering department, and in the ac- counting and financial departments. Latter- ly he was cashier and paymaster of the com- pany, until 1893, when he was made secre- tary and treasurer. Ten years later the road was acquired by the Santa Fe Railroad, and Mr. Holterhoff was made Asst. Treas. and Asst. Secy, of the Santa Fe Coast lines, comprising all that ter- ritory west of Albuquerque, N. M. This put GODFREY HOLTERHOFF him in charge of the financial department of ber of Commerce the company in its far western territory. Al- though the So. Cal. Ry. Co. was only formal- ly taken over by the Santa Fe in 1903, the latter corporation had virtually owned it from its inception, and so, in reality, Mr. Hol- terhoff has been with the parent company since he first entered the railroad business, more than thirty years ago. In addition to his railroad duties, Mr. Holterhoff is inter- ested in orange groves, oil and land properties, and numerous other enter- prises, both commercial and manufacturing. He is an officer or di- rector in over thirty cor- porations, twenty of which are controlled by the Santa Fe, and include railroad, land and other organizations. His per- sonal interests include the Brea Canyon Oil Company, Los. Angeles Cherokee Oil Company, Kings County Develop- ment Company, East Highland Improvement Company, California Port- land Cement Company; Hawthorne F u r n i t ure Mfg. Company and south- ern Trust and Savings Bank of San Diego. All of these corpora- tions are going con- cerns and in each of them Mr. Holterhoff is an active factor, holding office either as director, or as sec- retary and treasurer. His ability as a finan- cier has made him a conspicuous figure in the development of Southern California, and in most of the corporations of which he is a member the financial work is in his hands. Mr. Holterhoff is a Republican in poli- tics, but has never been active in the politi- cal field, nor has he ever sought for public office. He is a member of the California Club, the Sunset Club, the Los Angeles Country Club, the Crags Country Club, the Cerritos Gun Club and the Landmarks Club, all of Los Angeles. He also holds memberships in the South- western Society of the Archaeological Insti- tute of America and the Los Angeles Cham- 194 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY CRAY, LOUIS ALLAN, Oil Ms Producer, Los Angeles, Cal., i was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1865. His father was A. M. McCray and his mother Selina (Parsons) McCray. He was married to Mary Branson July 1, 1900, at Ventura, Cal., and of their union there have been three children, Irene, Blanche and Rita Mc- Cray, at the present time three handsome young women. Mr. McCray spent his early boyhood in the great oil fields of his na- tive State and New York State. At the age of six- teen years he left school and immediately took up active work among the wells. He first began as a pumper, but in 1886, when a temporary lull overtook the industry in the two states where he was working, he with his father and brothers, all practiced oil men, jour- neyed westward to Cali- fornia, where the oil busi- ness was then in its in- fancy. At the time the McCrays arrived there were only three oil com- panies in the State, the Puente Co. at Fullerton, Pacific Coast Oil Co. at Newhall, and Hardi- son-Stewart Co., which was operating in Ven- tura County. The Hardison-Stewart Co. later became the Union Oil Co. of California. Mr. McCray was employed by the Union Oil Co., in a minor capacity at first, but was steadily advanced on account of his thorough knowledge and efificiency to many responsible positions with the corporation. He remained with this company ten years, and then, when oil was discovered in the city of Los Angeles, he and his brother, M. L. McCray, formed a partnership and went into the well contract- ing business. They were among the very first to get into active operation in the field, and they soon saw that there was a great future in the development of oil property. Accordingly, they set about acquiring land leases and immediately began active opera- tions in the Los Angeles field on their own account. Because of their complete mastery L. A. McCRAY of the business in all its details they took a leading position. They drilled their own wells, handled and marketed all of the oil pumped from them, and at one time were the largest producing organization in the Los Angeles field. An indication of their activity and en- terprise is shown by the fact that at one pe- riod they had fifty-three wells in operation. At the time of the oil boom in the northern and other sections of Cal- ifornia, the McCrays de- cided these larger fields should be their sphere of endeavor, so they sold out their Los Angeles in- terests and turned their attention to leasing and developing lands in the newer districts. Here they met with success greater than that which had attended their efforts in the Los Angeles field and later they sold their properties to the Ameri- can Oil Fields Co., of which Mr. McCray is now a heavy stockholder and director. He also formed a partnership with Thos A. O'Donnell, and to- gether they became in- terested with E. L. Do- heny, another pioneer oil man, in the American Petroleum Company, one of the best known concerns of its kind in the West. The McCrays, Doheny, Canfield, O'Donnell and a few others are recognized as the real developers of oil in the Golden State. Besides the corporations already men- tioned, Mr. McCray is heavily interested in others. He is a director and stockholder in the Midland Oil Co., the Circle Oil Co., Sec- tion One Oil Co., J. F. Lucey Supply Co., and is a stockholder in the Mexican Gas Co. and the El Segundo Land and Develop- ment Co. Two years ago Mr. McCray retired from the active management of any of his com- panies and is now devoting his time to the building of a beautiful home among the foothills of Hollywood, an attractive suburb of Los Angeles. He is an active member of the Masonic Fraternity and also of the Hollywood Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 195 AGAN, DR. RALPH, Sur- geon, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, May 13, 1872, the son of Dr. Martin Hagan and Rose M. (Armstrong) Hagan. He married Mamie A. Berke at Los Angeles, May 12, 1897. Dr. Hagan's father was a practicing physician in Minnesota for many years and distinguished himself as a field surgeon during the Civil War, serving in many battles. He moved to Los Angeles in 1884 and immediately became a public figure. He served as Health Officer of Los Angeles, 1887-88, and was County Physi- cian from 1893 to 1895. He took an active part in the city's affairs until his death in 1902. During his early boy- hood, Dr. Hagan's father took him on an extensive tour, on which they vis- ited many countries, and settled for a time at Hon- olulu, Hawaiian Islands. They resided on the beau- tiful Pacific island for a short time, during the reign of the celebrated Queen Liliuokalani, until they moved to Los An- geles. Dr. Ralph Hagan was educated in the public DR. RALPH HAGAN schools of Los Angeles and graduated from the high school. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of California and was gradu- ated with the degree of M. D., June 4, 1895. The last two years of his college course he served as druggist in the Los Angeles County Hospital and upon graduation was made house surgeon of that institution. He served at this post one year, and in 1897 was made police surgeon for the City of Los Angeles. This position he filled four years, giving it up in 190J to begin private practice. Since that time he has devoted his time to his own work, the only public office held by him in the interim being that of Police Commissioner for Los Angeles, which duty he filled during the years 1904-05, under the administration of Mayor McAleer. Dr. Hagan startled the medical profes- sion shortly after he became Police Surgeon by performing a daring operation on one of his patients. The victim, a man, had re- ceived a terrible gunshot wound in the abdo- men and all hope of saving his life had been given up. Dr. Hagan, however, performed an exceptional operation upon the man and the latter ultimately recovered. This was the first successful operation of its kind in the West and won for Dr. Hagan a firm po- sition in the ranks of his profession. For eight years after he left the office of Po- lice Surgeon of Los An- geles, Dr. Hagan engaged in general medical prac- tice, but at the end of that period he became a specialist in surgery and has devoted himself to that branch of the profes- sion since that time. He is a man of manifold in- terests and, besides his private work is actively concerned in four large hospitals of Los Angeles, to each of which he de- votes a great deal of per- sonal attention. He is a stockholder and staff member of the Angeles, Pacific and Emergency Hospitals and consulting surgeon to the Sisters' Hospital. As a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile Club of Southern California he has done much for the improvement of the city proper and in addition has been a leader in the plans for good roads and boulevard building. He is an enthusiastic sportsman and spends all of his spare time out-of-doors. He is an expert reinsman and amateur driver and automobilist, and also is one of the best huntsmen in the West Shore Gun Club of Los Angeles. Besides the clubs heretofore mentioned, Dr. Hagan holds a life membership in the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Los An- geles Athletic Club. He is a member of the Southern California Lodge of Masons, a life member and Past Exalted Ruler of Los An- geles Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. Elks, a mem- ber of the Sierra Madre Club of Los An- geles and of numerous medical and other scientific organizations. 196 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ULLEN, ARTHUR B., Cloth- M^ ing Merchant, Los Angeles, 1 California, is a native of Wis- consin, having been born in Milwaukee, September 19, 1874. His father was Andrew Mullen and his mother Mary Teresa Mullen. Andrew Mullen, Arthur B. Mullen's fa- ther, was one of the most progressive and highly respected men of Los Angeles, Southern California. He was the founder of the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Com- pany and remained presi- dent of that firm until the time of his death, March 4, 1899. He was appointed by Governor Markham to the Board of Trustees of the Whittier State School and served as president of that insti- tution for a number of years. He was one of the organizers of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and was its treasurer for many years. He was also one of the organizers and a director of the Columbia Trust Company, the Citizens National Bank and the California Clay Manufac- turing Company. He was a most enthusiastic work- er for the upbuilding of Los Angeles. Arthur Mullen was reared and educated in Los Angeles, California. After passing through the grammar schools of that city, he took a brief course in the Los Angeles Busi- ness College. Upon completing these stud- ies, he entered St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles, where he took a college course for several years. He went East, and at Notre Dame University, Indiana, concluded his education. Returning to Los Angeles, Mr. Mullen entered the employ of the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company, at that time located at the corner of First and Spring streets, the high-class business center of Los Angeles. Previous to his college studies he had worked for the firm in various capacities, and after settling to work permanently acted as salesman, clerk and manager of various departments.. In 1901, on the death of Mr. ARTHUR B. MULLEN Bluett, Mr. Mullen was made manager of the company. He took hold of the firm and for ten years has directed its destinies, dur- ing which period the house has been enlarged six times. By March, 1910, the business had grown so that the company determined to move to the southwestern part of the city, where the business center was fast becoming established. A lease was secured on the ground floor of the new Story Building. The firm has been located since that time in what is per- haps the finest retail storeroom on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Mullen, as manager of the concern, has charge of the business policies of the house, is one of the board of di- rectors and a principal owner. Mr. Mullen has other business interests aside from his connection with the Mullen & Bluett Company. He is one of the five heirs to the $1,000,000 Mullen estate, which in itself requires a large share of his atten- tion. He has other large business interests, which include oil, mining, ranching, land and build- ing holdings, many of located in them located in and about Los Angeles, while others are scat- tered over a greater part of the Southwest. He is a director of the Hibernian Bank of Los Angeles and a prominent member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, hav- ing served that organization on numerous occasions both by force of his capital and prestige. He is also a member of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers' Association. His extensive interests make him a prominent factor in the development of the city, and he is one of the first subscribers in all business and civic movements for the advancement of Greater Los Angeles. Mr. Mullen is well known in the club and fraternal circles of Los Angeles. He is a member of the B. P. O. E., 99, and is a mem- ber as well as trustee of the Knights of Co- lumbus. He is vice president and director of the Knickerbocker Club of that city and is a life member of the L. A. Athletic Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 197 COTT, IRVING MURRAY (de- ceased), ironmaster, mechanical engineer and ship builder, San Francisco, Cal., was born at "He- bron Mills," Baltimore County, Maryland, December 25, 1837. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (Littig) Scott and the great-great-grandson of Abraham and Eliza- beth Dyer Scott, who emigrated to America from Cumberland, England, in 1722, bringing a certificate of good standing in the Eng- lish Society of Friends. Abra- ham Scott purchased a tract of land in Maryland, known as "Old Regulation," from Lord Baltimore in 1723, and there established a grist mill, a fulling mill, a tan yard and store, and from these mills the place became known as "Hebron Mills," and there Irving Murray Scott was born one hundred and fifteen years after his ancestor came to America, and there his sister still re- sides. He married Laura Hord, daughter of John Redd and Seaneth Tennis of Kentucky, October 7, 1863, and is sur- vived by two children, Alice Webb and Laurance Irving Scott. From "Old Nick," the miller at Hebron Mills, he first acquired a taste for knowledge and mechanics. He attended the public schools and later the Milton Academy, where he studied for three years under John Emerson Lamb. Leaving there, he declined his father's offer of a profes- sional course, preferring mechanics, and he accord- ingly was apprenticed to Obed Hussey, of Balti- more, inventor of the reaping machine, with whom he learned the engineering and wood-working trades. Completing this, he worked for several years in Baltimore supervising the construction of engines, meantime devoting his leisure to study. He enrolled in the Mechanics' Institute, dividing his time between mechanical drawing, German and lectures. In 1860 Mr. Scott was engaged as a draughtsman by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, which at that time employed only 22 men, and was chiefly engaged in manufacture of mining machinery. In 1861 became chief draughts- man, and in 1863 a partner in business, with posi- tion of Superintendent, which was later changed to Gen. Mgr., a post he held until his death. Under his guidance the Union Iron Works became a mam- moth iron and ship building concern, with millions of capital and thousands of men in its employ. In 1880 Mr. Scott made a trip around the world with James Fair, studying closely the shipyards of England and France. When he returned he practi- cally rebuilt the Union Iron Plant in San Francisco, and in 1884, when it became a corporation, he caused shipbuilding to be made a part of its work. In addition to private vessels, it has built numerous IRVING M. SCOTT warships for the United States and other govern- ments. The battleship "Oregon," at the time of its completion one of the most powerful battleships in the world, was its product. In 1898 Mr. Scott went to St. Petersburg to advise the Russian Govern- ment on battleship construction. Mr. Scott was largely interested in banking, mining and other fields, and to him was largely due the development of the Clipper Gap Iron Co., one of the richest in California. Incidentally he was the inventor of improved cut-off engines and other machines, and designed the machinery for the famous Comstock Mines. He was vitally inter- ested in educational, histori- cal and literary affairs; was president of the Art Associa- tion of the Mechanics' Insti- tute; regent of the Univer- sity of California; trustee of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University and the Free Li- brary; president of the S. F. Art Association, Washington Irving Literary Society, Addi- sonian Literary Society and the Howard Street Literary Society, and in 1880 was pres- ident of the Authors' Carni- val. He served several terms as president of Mechanics' In- stitute. He was a fluent writ- er and has contributed to magazines upon labor and other subjects. As early as 1869 Mr. Scott won the com- mendation of William Sew- ard for an address delivered before the Mechanics' Insti- tute, and in later years was a popular speaker at public gatherings and patriotic events, having delivered ora- tions at the unveiling of statues to Francis Scott Key and Starr King in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. He was a mem- ber of the State Prison Board under Governor Stoneman, and member of the staff of Governor Perkins of California. He was at one time a candidate for the State Senate. He also served as president, in 1891, of the Cal. Commission to the World's Columbian Exposi- tion. In 1892 he made a second trip to Europe. He was nominated for State Senator and dele- gate to form the State Constitution; member of the Freeholders to form Charter of San Francisco, 1895 ; appointed member of the Hundred to formulate a Charter for S. F., 1896; elected Rep. presidential elector, 1886; Pres., Commercial Museum of S. F., 1900; Chairman of Committee to receive President McKinley, 1901 ; spoken of for Vice President of the United States during McKinley's campaign for President; made Doctor of Philosophy by Santa Clara College for distinguished services to the State in 1901. He was a member of the Pacific-Union, Bur- lingame. Army and Navy, University, Bohemian, Union League, Press Clubs and Society of the American Wars, of San Francisco, and the Lawyers' Club and National Arts Society of New York. Mr. Scott died in San Francisco, April 28, 1903. 198 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY BROWN, HARRING- TON, Oil Refiner, Los Angeles, Gal., was born January 1, 1856, in Washington, D. C, the son of William Van Horn Brown and Adelaide J. (Harring- ton) Brown. He mar- ried Minnie T o 1 a n d Glassell at Los An- geles, Dec. 13, 1882. He studied in pri- vate schools of his na- tive city, until he en- tered the preparatory department of Colum- bian University (George Washington), and from there he went to Princeton University, graduating in 1876, with the degree A. B. He then entered Columbian University Law School and studied for two years. He was graduated in 1878,, with degree LL. B., but never engaged in practice. He went to Los An- geles shortly after graduating and became a fruit grower. He remained at this only a short time, giving it up in 1890 to engage in the oil refining business. He has remained in that business down to date, at present being President of the Southern Refining Company. Mr. Brown is a member of the National Geo- graphic Society, National Municipal League, Cham- ber of Commerce, and Merchants and Manufac- turers' Association of Los Angeles. His clubs are the University, Jefferson, Princeton, College Men's and Los Angeles Country, all of Los Angeles. BARHAM, GUY B., Custom House and In- ternal Revenue Broker, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born at "The Dalles," Ore., March 21, 1864. His father was Richard M. Bar- ham and his mother Martha Medora (Ar- nold) Bar ham. He married at Detroit, Mich., August 4, 1903, Marie Humphreys Baby. One child, now deceased, was born to them. His parents moved to Watsonville, Cal., in 1866; then went to Anaheim, Cal., in 1873. Became a resident of Los Angeles in 1882. Educated in public schools of Los Angeles County and High School of Anaheim, California. He has had a varied and busy career. At the age of 21 he became a railway postal clerk. He liked the employ of Uncle Sam, and in 1888 he be- came Deputy Collector Internal Revenue Service at Los Angeles. He resigned in 1890 to go into the Customs House and Internal Revenue Brokerage business for himself. Went into politics and was Police Commissioner, Los Angeles, 1895-'96; Presi- dent Board of Bank Commissioners of California, 1902-'06. Clubs: Los Angeles Country, Jonathan, Califor- nia, Elks, of Los Angeles; Bohemian, of San Francisco. HUMPHREYS, WIL- LIAM MORGAN, Mem- ber Board of Public Works, Los Angeles, California, was born at St. Louis, Missouri, Oc- tober 12, 1864, the son of John F. Humphreys and Fannie C. (Math- ews) Humphreys. He married Amelia Marie Seeberger, April 25, 1895, at Monmouth, Il- linois, and to them there has been born one child, Helen Hum- phreys. Mr. Humphreys be- gan life equipped with a thorough education, having attended St. Louis University, St. Mary's College, St. Louis; St. Louis Law School and St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from St. Vincent's in 1911. After graduating from St. Louis Law School in 1889 with LL. B., he returned to Los Angeles, whither his family had moved in 1883, and went into the land business on a large scale. He bought large tracts adjacent to the city, subdivided them into lots, cut streets, laid sidewalks, and planted palms and trees. He has done notable improvement work and has been a factor in the upbuilding of Los Angeles, served two terms as Park Commissioner, one as As- sistant Postmaster and one on the Board of Public Works. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic Shriner, Knight Templar and Elk. LEWIS, WALTER A., Auditor of Los An- geles County, Ca,lifor- nla, was born in Mil- waukee, Wis., Sept. 30, 1864, the son of John Lewis and Julia Brew- ster (Clark) Lewis. He married Edith Blades at Pomona, Cal., May 3, 1892. He started his edu- cation in the schools of Chicago, but left there in 1877; In 1881 went to high school, Kansas City, Mo., where he studied two years. Be- gan in 1881 as weigh- master in Union Ele- vator, Kansas City, serving two years. Employed in Kansas City Branch Great Western Type Foun- dry, 1883-1886. Then went into printing business, until 1887, when he went to Pomona, Cal., where he still resides. He first went to work in California in the musical instrument establishment of R. S. Bassett, dealing in real estate on side. In June, 1888, went into real estate and insurance alone, continuing to January, 1911. That year he was elected Auditor of Los Angeles County on the Re- publican ticket. Mr. Lewis served ten years as sec- retary of Del Monte Irrigation Company, same with Irrigation Company of Pomona, and nine yeare as secretary Kingsley Tract Water Company, all of Pomona. Served in National Guard of California, 1887 to 1897. Member Union League Club, Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 199 IVENS, JAMES G., Las Vegas, Nevada, was born in 1856 on one of the most princely estates in the Blue Grass region, in Lincoln County, near Danville, Kentucky. He is descended from notable an- cestors on both sides of his house. Pour of his direct ancestors held commissions from the State of Vir- ginia as captains of companies during the Revolu- tionary War, and two of these equipped and bore all expense of the same. In 1898 he was married to Esther Edwards Kelsey of Worthington, Indiana, whose ancestry and lineage were fully equal to his. Mr. Givens was educated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1878 with honor. He then entered the Uni- versity of Virginia to study law. After one year's work he returned to Kentucky and graduated from the Univers- ity of Louisville with the degree of Bachelor of Law. After graduation he formed a partnership to practice law in Louisville, Kentucky, under the firm name of Ayers & Givens. Like all lawyers of his section, he took his course in politics. In 1885 he was elected a member of the School Board of Louisville, but soon resigned to become a member of the Board of Aldermen of that city. He was secretary of the Democratic Central Committee which conducted the campaign in the election of the famous J. Proctor Knott as Governor of the Blue Grass State. Having been a close student of the natural re- sources of his native State, he realized the dormant wealth in the vast beds of coal and iron In south- eastern Kentucky, and was the first to enlist capital to develop that section. He was the promoter of the Pine Mountain Coal and Iron Company that put on foot the Pineville enterprises recently sold at great increase in profit. While this is but one of many enterprises, it is typical of all. During the first years of this activity Mr. Givens brought many millions of dollars into Kentucky, and so successful were his operations that he went abroad four dif- ferent times in response to calls from foreign capital, and all to the advantage of his native State. When the panic laid its heavy hand upon the whole country, Mr. Givens was caught in its grasp. To many such a crushing blow would have been ruin, but the fighting blood of his revolutionary JAMES G. GIVENS ancestors came to the top and asserted itself, and Mr. Givens, nothing daunted, set about recuperating his fortunes. With the revival of business and the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 he headed for the Northwest. Here he engaged with others in min- ing in Alaska, British Columbia and Washington. The bleakness of the north was uncomfortable to one born and reared south of the Mason-Dixon line, and in 1907, toward the end of the gold boom, he turned his attention to the State of Nevada. He went to investigate condi- tions and immediately be- came an active man in its affairs. Because of his gen- eral knowledge and experi- ence in public enterprises he was selected to canvass the State in the interest of the Mining Congress, and in this way secured general infor- mation of all parts of the State and her possibilities. At the close of the Mining Congress, in 1908, he went at once to Las Vegas, Ne- vada, to make his future home, as the place having the greatest possibilities in the State with the richest and least speculative natural resources. Mr. Givens is now en- gaged principally in the reclamation of arid land by means of artesian wells. He has many thousands of acres of this land under process of reclamation, and although tie has been in Las Vegas but two years he has already been the cause of many thousands of acres of this land being put under intensive methods of farming and cultivation. One direct result of this development is the establishment of extensive fruit ranches, which will lead ultimately to the erection of modern canning plants that will place that section among the great producing centers of the country. Wherever Mr. Givens has lived he has taken a vital interest in civic matters of his adopted place of residence. As President of the Chamber of Commerce of Las Vegas he lends himself to the upbuilding of Las Vegas Valley. He is President of the Fidelity Trust Company and is an officer in the following corporations, viz: The Las Vegas Irrigated Lands Company, the Las Vegas Farming Lands Company, the Las Vegas Val- ley Land Company, the Las Vegas Valley Land and Water Corporation and the Buffalo-Nevada Land Company. 200 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY J. LESTER OSBORN NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 20I SBORN, J. LESTER, Presi- dent of the Mexican Oil and Asphalt Company and of the United Parral Mines Com- pany of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born in Montpelier, Idaho, Octo- ber 18, 1873. He is the son of David Osborn and Nancy (Thorn) Osborn. He married Emma Kewley, June 12, 1901, at Logan, Utah. They have three children, Aglaia, Lewis and Alice Osborn. Mr. Osborn received his preliminary ed- ucation in the common schools of Idaho, and later received two years' high school and four years' college training at the B. Y. Col- lege, Logan, Utah. This was followed by a course in corporation law, not as a prepara- tion for the Bar, but as a business training. The early years of Mr. Osborn's life were spent upon the farm, his father being a pio- neer farmer of Idaho. After the completion of his two years' high school work he spent two years teaching in the country schools of his native State, then worked his way through college as best he could without as- sistance. After completing his college work he was for two years Superintendent of the Grantsville schools, Tooele County, Utah. His first business venture was furniture, which he started at Salt Lake City in 1903 with little or no capital. By careful man- agement and progressive methods, however, he developed his business rapidly and soon became one of the most active and leading wholesalers in Utah. He dealt for the most part in large contracts, including church, opera, school, lodge and bank furniture. Salt Lake City was his distributing point, and the entire inter-mountain states his field. The growth of this business was phenomenal un- til in 1908, when circumstances outside of his business forced him to give it up. The severe climate of Utah did not agree with Mrs. Osborn, and physicians urged a change to Southern California. It was while here, in the autumn of 1908, and with a very little knowledge of the great enterprises he was about to direct, that Mr. Osborn was first asked to visit the plantation of the Tam- pico Fruit Company in Mexico, in which he was at that time only nominally interested. Seeing untold wealth underlying a tlier promising orange plantation, he quietly set to work to get control of the 13,000-acre tract. It was very evident to him that this immense acreage, being the nearest oil land to the Port of Tampico and bordering for seven miles the Panuco River, was commer- cially in a class by itself. While others were spending millions solving the transportation problem in order to get their oil to tidewater, he proposed to use his entire capital for oil development and storage. As a means to this end the Mexican Oil and Asphalt Company of California, with a capitalization of ten million dollars, was or- ganized, of which Mr. Osborn is President and the principal stockholder. This com- pany has purchased the entire 13,000 acres and is now active in the development of oil, with several good producing wells already drilled on the property. Recently Mr. Osborn has purchased and reorganized the United Parral i\Iines Com- pany, with a capitalization of three million dollars, of which he is President and owns the stock control. This company's property consists of several valuable and well devel- oped claims in the State of Chihuahua, Mex- ico. These mines, like many others in the West, were closed down during the panic of 1907, to await the action of new capital. Aside from these Mexican enterprises, Mr. Osborn has many oil and real estate in- terests in Southern California. He gives personal attention to each one of the corporations in which he is inter- ested, and as a result has very little time for recreation. He has, however, learned the art of getting a great amount of pleasure from his work. His simple, yet active life as a boy has given him a strong physical consti- tution and an infinite capacity for hard work. In his early days in Utah and Idaho Mr. Os- born saw numerous fortunes won and lost in mining operations, and his recollection of the mistakes that led others to disaster has enabled him to steer clear of pitfalls in his own business ventures. Mr. Osborn is a member of the National Geographical Society, of the University Club and of the Gamut Club of Los An- geles, and of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 202 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY CHARLES F. AXELS ON ^^m XELSON, CHARLES FREDERIC, Machinist and Foundryman, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Paxton, 111., June 25, 1864. His father was Nels Frederic Axelson and his mother Mary Christen (Magnu- son) Axelson. He married Carrie May Bratton at Topeka, Kan., on Dec. 2, 1885. There are two chil- dren, Delbert F. Axelson and Jule C. Axelson. Mr. Axelson attended the public schools of Blue Rapids, Kan., where his parents had moved from Illinois. Up to the time that he was fourteen years of age attended school, finishing grammar grades. During his later school days he put in his spare time herding cattle for ten cents per day. Between the ages eleven and thirteen Mr. Axel- son worked in a woolen mill, and at the same time found time for advanced school study. Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen he served as an ap- prentice in the machine shops of Price Brothers of Blue Rapids, Kan. After finishing his term as apprentice Mr. Axel- son moved to Leavenworth, Kan., where he worked for some time. Later at Beloit and Topeka, Kan., he was engaged as head foreman for different firms. He went to Santa Ana, Cal., where he formed a partnership in the foundry and machine business with his brother, G. A. Axelson, and George WlUin- ton as the Acme Iron Works. In 1896 Mr. Axelson went to Los Angeles, where he opened his present foundry and machine busi- ness, the firm at the present time being the Axel- son Machine Company. Mr. Axelson is a member of the Pounders and Employers' Association of Los Angeles, and of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States. He is a member of the Sierra Madre Club and a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Los Angeles. JONATHAN LANE ANE, JONATHAN, Lawyer, Hous- ton, Texas, was bom in Fayette County, Texas, October 15, 1855, the son of Rev. Charles Joseph Lane and Ellen E. (Crockett) fl Lane. On both sides of his house Mr. Lane is descended from notable Texas families. He married Miss Alma Harrison at Flatonia, Texas, December 28, 1880. He attended a private school at Oso, Fayette County, and later studied under tutors at home. He remained on the farm until he had attained the age of eighteen, then became clerk and part owner in the general store of Harrison & Lane at Fla- tonia. He remained there until January 1, 1885, and having perfected himself in law during his spare hours, began practice. He still retains his interest in the general store. He started in law as a member of the firm of Phelps & Lane, at La Grange, Texas, which part- nership lasted until 1889; for ten years his firm was Brown & Lane. In 1899 he moved to Hous- ton, and there became a member of the firm of Brown, Lane & Granwood, which was dissolved in 1901. He practiced alone for a time, then formed the present firm of Lane, Wolters & Storey. Mr. Lane occupies a leading position among the corporation attorneys, besides acting in nu- merous cases for the county. He is also counsel for many insurance, railroad, lumber, rice and trust companies. Is connected with the Union National Bank and Bankers' Trust Company of Houston, Texas, as director and Is president of the Guaran- tee Life Insurance Company of Houston. From the age of twenty-eight to thirty-two he was a member of the State Senate of Texas. Mr. Lane is a prominent Mason, having taken all degrees, and is also a Knight of Pythias, Knight of Honor, member of the A. O. U. W. and the Red Men. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 203 GESNER WILLIAMS ILLIAMS, GESNER, lawyer, Los Angeles, California, was born in Gainesville, Alabama, December 15, 1867. His father was David Hitt Williams and his mother Eugenia Florida (Hutton) Wil- liams. Mr. Williams went to Los Angeles from De- mopolls, Ala., In 1903, and immediately became asso- ciated with A. W. Hutton under the firm name of Hutton and Williams. He married Jennie Graydon Knox at Demopolis on September 7, 1892. There Is one daughter, Graydon Williams. Mr. Williams was educated in the public schools of Gainesville until 1884. Prom 1884 until 1888 he attended the Virginia Military Institute at Lexing- ton, Virginia. From 1888 until 1890 he attended the University of Virginia. During the summer of 1885 he attended the Eastman National Business College at Poughkeepsle, New York. From 1893 until 1897 Mr. Williams practiced law with the firm of Clarke and Williams at De- mopolis, Alabama. He was attorney for the South- ern Railway Company for nine years and was one of the attorneys who broke the "Oiled Roads Pat- ent." He was associated with the counsel for the plaintiff Anita Baldwin in her contest of Lucky Baldwin's will, one of the most famous cases in the annals of litigation in California. In 1906 Mr. Williams helped to organize the Independence party in California. In 1908 he was a member of the national committee of the Independence party. He was a member of the National Guard of Alabama from 1892 until 1902. He was mayor of Demopolis from 1895 until 1897, and city attorney from 1897 until 1903. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Alabama in 1901 and civic judge in 1898. He is an Elk, Knight of Pythias and Odd Fel- low. He is also an officer in several commercial companies. He received a degree from the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1890. A. W. HUTTON UTTON, AURELIUS WINFIELD, attorney, member of the firm of Hutton & Williams, Los Angeles, Cal., was born July 23, 1847, at Hopewell P. O., Greene County, Ala., son of Dr. Aquila D. Hutton and Elizabeth H. (Tutt) Hutton. His grandfather was Gen. Joseph Hutton and his grandmother Nancy Calhoun, cousin of John C. Calhoun. He was married in Los Angeles February 24, 1874, to Kate Irene Travis, and they had ten children, of whom Mignonette, William B., Helen, Elizabeth, Travis C. and Eugenia are living. Judge Hutton attended the "old field schools" in Alabama until 1863, when he joined the Cadet Corps of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, serving as a cadet to the end of the Civil War and rendering some service in the Confederate army. From 1866 to 1867 he read law under Bliss & Snedecor at Gainesville, Mr. Bliss having been a class mate of Franklin Pierce, afterward President. In the fall of 1867 Judge Hutton entered the Uni- versity of Virginia Law Dept., and was graduated in a year. He went to Los Angeles in April, 1869. Judge Hutton wrote the first special charter of Los Angeles in 1874. He was the first judge to decide against the S. P. Ry. in its claims to lands granted to the A. & P. R. Company. He was special counsel for the United States in the "Itata cases" for violation of the U. S. neutrality laws during Chilean revolution. In 1872 he was elected City Atty., and re-elected in 1874. In 1887 was appointed Superior Judge L. A. County; in 1889 U. S. Dist. Atty. pro tem for the So. Dist., Cal. He was an original stockholder of the San Gabriel Orange Grove Assn., which founded Pasadena. He served twice as Maj. Gen., Pacific Div., U. C. V., is a mem- ber L. A. Pioneer Society, L. A. Bar Assn., Sam Davis Camp, U. C. V., L. A. Chamber of Commerce and Golden Rule Lodge, I. O. O. F., Los Angeles. 204 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OUBLE, EDWARD, Presi- dent of the Union Tool Com- pany, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born at Titusville, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1871. His father was Hamilton Double and his mother Mary (Smith) Double. He mar- ried Alice Harbard in Santa Paula, Califor- nia, January 4, 1900, and of their union there has been born one child, Helen Double. Mr. Double attended the grammar school of his native State and re- ceived all of his educa- tion there. He spent his boyhood days and the early part of his man- hood in Pennsylvania. As a young man he became interested in the oil industry, which was at the height of its boom in the Keystone State about that time. He worked in the oil fields for a number of years in various capacities. His natural inclination was towards the mechanical side of the business, and in time he became inter- ested in the manufacture of tools and appliances used in pumping oil from the ground. He became one of the most skilled tool and machinery men in the oil fields, and before he left there made a reputation for himself as an expert in his line. Mr. Double, in 1898, determined to seek a new section where he could go into busi- ness for himself. He decided to go to Cali- fornia, and first located at Santa Paula, at that time an important center in the oil pro- ducing region. There Mr. Double became intimately acquainted with the leading oil producers of that vicinity, and associated himself in an investment way with many of the principal interests. He also established a plant for the manufacture of tools and ma- chinery for the production of oil. He maintained his business at Santa Paula for approximately five years, and in 1901 moved his machinery plant to Los An- geles, where he has been located down to date. At the time Mr. Double moved to Los EDWARD DOUBLE Angeles that city was the Mecca for oil men, an Elk. and his business thrived until he became one of the principal manufacturers of oil well tools and appurtenances in the great South- west. He foresaw that oil was to be one of California's modern fields of riches and took advantage of the opportunity to supply the developers with the machinery necessary. In time he became associated with the Union Tool Company of Los Angeles, one of the largest concerns of its kind on the Pacific Coast, and has been with it to date. At the present time he is President and Gen- eral Manager of the Union Tool Company and holds a large share in the stock of that cor- poration. The manufac- ture of oil well supplies, gas, gasoline and distil- late engines, mining ma- chinery and iron castings are their specialties. Mr. Double has in- vented a number of the most valuable devices known to the science of drilling. His knowledge of the work and his years of experience in both the Pennsylvania and Cali- fornia oil fields have fit- ted him for the work of producing oil well ma- chinery of the most up- to-date type. Through the personal inven- tions of Mr. Double the company has made practically every important improvement in oil well tools that has been introduced on the Coast. He is conceded to be the most capable manufacturer of oil well tools in the West. For fifteen years he has made a special study of the needs of the public in the line of oil well supplies, with the result that oil workers fully appreciate what he has ac- complished. The business interests of Mr. Double occupy a greater part of his time, but aside from this he is deeply interested in the wel- fare of the city and takes an active part in its development. He is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and of the Union League Club and the Jonathan Club, and is NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 205 OHNSON, SAMUEL ORA- MEL, President of the S. S. Johnson Company, San Fran- cisco, Cal., was born at How- ard City, Mich., March 9, 1881, the son of Samuel S. and Emma (Gibbs) Johnson. His father, a well known lumberman from the County Glengarry, Can- ada, acquired large timber interests in the middle West, and subse- quently in Oregon and California, and evidently transmitted to his son that love for the forest which he himself had brought from his own na- tive country. On Dec. 5, 1906, he was married in the College Chapel at Fairbault, Minn., to Miss Katharine Horrigan, and the surviving children of this marriage are Kath- arine and Samuel S. Johnson. Mr. Johnson attended the public school at Bar- num, Minn., but in the fall of 1894 entered the Shattuck School at Fair- bault, from which he was graduated in 1898. Dur- ing the winters of 1902-3 and 1903-4 he took a spe- cial course in law and mechanical engineering at the University of Min- nesota. While at school at Barnum he spent his vacations in the sawmills and logging camps, and subsequently when he was a stu- dent at Fairbault he was again adding to his experience in the same mills and yards. Im- mediately upon his graduation from Shat- tuck he started out with his pack on his back to cruise timber in northern Minnesota. He spent two winters in the woods, scaling logs the first and in charge of a logging camp the second. In the summer he worked in all the dififerent departments of the business, and became thoroughly familiar therewith. From 1900 to 1904 he was in charge of the mill and yards at Cloquet, where he ran successfully the first large sawmill that was ever operated during the extremely cold Minnesota winter. In April, 1904, he left the University of Min- nesota to join his father, who had gone to California in January of that year. The first seven months after his arrival Mr. Johnson S. O. JOHNSON passed in the forests of northern California and eastern Oregon. Here he bought thou- sands of acres of pine timber. In December, 1905, on the death of his father, he took charge of the McCloud River Lumber Co., of which the latter had been president and a large owner. He left this in 1908 to go to San Francisco, where he has since been chiefly engaged in managing his own afifairs, consisting mainly of his lumber in- terests and the Klamath Falls townsite property. In July, 1909, Mr. Johnson became president of the Klamath Develop- ment Co., of Klamath Falls, Ore., and devotes much of his energy to these interests. Mr. John- son regards as the most worthy action of his life his presentation, in 1908, in the name of the S. S. Johnson Co., of the Shat- tuck Armory to the Shat- tuck Military School, as a memorial to his father. Besides his presidency of the S. S. Johnson Co. and the Klamath Devel- opment Co., he is presi- dent of the Hot Springs Co., Des Chutes Lumber Co., Des Chutes Booming Co. and Big Basin Lum- p r e si ber Co. ; vice dent Weed Lumber Co., Willamette Railroad Co., the Wendling-Johnson Lumber Co., and the First National Bank of Weed, Cal., and a director of the Pacific Coast Redwood Co. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Kla- math Investment Co. and owner of valuable properties in Klamath Falls, including the magnificent White Pelican Hotel. This last is a monument to southern Oregon as well as to the untiring energy of Mr. Johnson, the moving spirit in its erection. It is second to none on the coast and unique in that it util- izes hot water from its famous hot springs for its Hammam Baths, as well for heating the building throughout. His clubs are : The Pacific Union, Clare- mont Country, Bohemian, Family, Common- wealth and Klamath Country. He is also a Master and Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon College Frater- nity. 2o6 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY EHYMER, L. E., Manager of musical and dramatic celebri- ties, and of Temple Auditor- ium, 'Los Angeles, Cal., was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, November 5, 1862, near the homestead of the poet, Miss Phoebe Gary. His father was Aaron Behymer, his mother having been Miss Charlotte Leach. One paternal ances- tor was Jonathan Behy- mer, first ferryman at Harper's Ferry, an early settler o f Claremont County, Ohio, and a com- panion of Daniel Boone ; on the maternal side Dr. Edwin Leach, the cele- brated physician and scientist of Edinburg, Scotland, is chronicled. Mr. Behymer married Miss Menette Sparks, niece of Jared Sparks, the historian, at High- more, Dakota Territory, January, 1886. The issue of the marriage are, Gle- narvon, Enid and Elsie Behymer. Mr. Behymer was edu- cated in the public schools, graduating at Shelbyville high school in 111., May 30, 1881. He then attended the Northwest Normal School, Stanber- ry, Mo., 1881-1882. While a resident of Dakota, he was made territorial commissioner from Hyde County, serving 1884-85 and part of 1886. Mr. Behymer went to Los Angeles, June 9, 1886, and entered the employ of Stoll and Thayer, assuming charge of the book shelves. He also did literary reviewing for the Herald. He became connected in business ways with Manager H. C. Wyatt, then of the Grand Opera House, and with McClain and Leh- man, managers, Hazard's Pavilion; since that time he has been identified with all dra- matic, musical and literary movements of the city. There has never' been a fiesta, a Shrine minstrel or a charity circus perform- ance where Mr. Behymer has not assisted; his effective work during the late Aviation Meet showed the managerial ability, which secured for him in earlier years the manage- ment of the western tours of such organiza- tions as the Metropolitan Opera Companv; L. E. BEHYMER the Maurice Grau Opera Company ; Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the San Carlos Opera Company; Madames Nordica, Schumann- Heink and Gadski; Ben Greet; the Dam- rosch Orchestra and the Russian Symphony Orchestra. It was through his influence that Madame Adelina Patti was heard in Los Angeles, that La Boheme received its first performance there; that Madame Mel- ba sang for the first time there, her role of Mimi; that Fritzi Scheff made her first bow there in this country, and that Mad- ame Modjeska entrusted to his care a large portion of her afifairs. He is the manager of the Auditorium Theater, representing the Sam S. and Lee Shubert interests in Los Angeles. He is also manager of Simpson Auditorium, rep- resentative of the leading vocalists and instrumen- talists of the world during their western tours; he also manages the Los An- geles Symphony Orches- tra, and the Woman's Symphony Orchestra, and has done so ever since the formation of these organ- izations. Mr. Behymer has been elected officer of the French Academy by the Minister of Public Instruction and the Chief of the Cabinet of Beaux-Arts, this occurring on March 1, 1908, and six months later he re- ceived the Decoration of The Palms at the same hands. As one of the first members of Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. E., Mr. Behymer has participated in all of the work of that Order for the past eighteen years. He is an active member of Temple A. A. O. N. M. S. Al Malaikah; a 32d degree mem- ber of the L. A. Consistory No. 3, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free-Masonry; a member of King Solomon Lodge of Perfec- tion No. 3; the Robert Bruce Chapter, Rose Croix No. 3 of Los Angeles; Hollenbeck Lodge No. 319, F. and A. M., and East Gate Lodge, No. 103, R. A. M. He is vice president of the Gamut Club and president of the Progress Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 207 ALDWIN, JAMES VINING, Real Estate Operator, Los Angeles, Cal- alifornia, was born at Weston, Ohio, October 25, 1870. His father was Edward Baldwin and his mother was Harriet M. Tay- lor. He was reared in Ohio, where he obtained his education in the public schools of his home town. He graduated from high school in 1889 and entered the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity at Delaware, Ohio, the following fall, where he re- mained for two years. Shortly after leaving col- lege he entered the mercan- tile business in Weston, Ohio. During the years that followed he achieved unusual success in his first business venture. His wide acquaint- ance in his native city, cou- pled with a shrewd business head and a liberal education, placed him in the front ranks. He managed and directed the business for six years, selling out his entire interests in 1898. For several years he had been fighting a growing de- sire to go West. Now, with no business connections to hold him back, he left his home city, going direct to Los Angeles, California. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1898 and immediately entered the real estate business, and has been identified with the growth of the city since that date. At the time of Mr. Baldwin's arrival Los An- geles had but recently passed through a period of depression and was approaching a remarkable growth, which continued for a number of years. Mr. Baldwin, realizing that the city had a great future, invested heavily in real estate, both in the then outlying districts and in the closer-in sections of the city. He grasped the highest class of prop- erties and became one of the leading realty pro- moters of the city. Mr. Baldwin made a specialty of the best class of subdivisions and has played a most important role in the rapid growth and development of the western and southwestern sections of Los Angeles — the best and most desirable residence district of that city. He has handled a number of the finest tracts in that section of the community; has bought barren acreage and turned it into residence districts which today are covered with many of the finest residences of which Los Angeles is so justly proud. JAMES V. BALDWIN His best-known tracts are those in the West Ad- ams and Wilshire Boulevard sections, and com- prise the highest class of subdivisions, such as West Adams Heights, Westmoreland Heights, Wel- lington Place, Westminster Place, Larchmont Heights, Wilshire Hills, Wilshire Heights and many other similar properties in recently opened resi- dence sections. Mr. Baldwin was the first real estate operator to buy up acreage and start the improvement of subdivisions in the now ex- clusive Wilshire district, and he has been the largest realty operator in that portion of the city. His far-sightedness and belief in the city's future have caused him to reach out far beyond the generally sup- posed limits to which the city would expand for many years, and in almost every instance the growth has al- most immediately caught up to him, confirming his judg- ment. It was this advanced judgment that has made him one of the foremost realty operators in Los Angeles. His prudence in choosing the choicest districts for resi- dence purposes has been a feature that has stood out in Mr. Baldwin's career. Mr. Baldwin is always found among the foremost men of Los Angeles, in his walk of life, in everything that pertains to the develop- ment, growth and welfare of a Greater Los Angeles. He watches with keenest interest the development of the Los Angeles Harbor, the Owens River project and other similar move- ments that have a local or national bearing on the welfare of Los Angeles. He has been identified with and Is one of the leading spirits in the growth of the Los Angeles Realty Board. Mr. Baldwin is interested in a number of indus- trial and manufacturing projects and is a director In the California Savings Bank of Los Angeles. He is prominently associated with movements in Los Angeles in almost every branch of the business and financial world and by reason of his untiring work in any matter which he undertakes is re- garded as among the leaders in all the propositions intended to advance and upbuild the business or commercial interests of his adopted city. A man of genial personality, he is a conspicuous figure in the social life of Los Angeles and is one of the leading clubmen. He is a member of the California Club, of the Los Angeles Country Club and of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, and re- sides at the California Club. 208 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY A. R. FRASER NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 209 RASER. ALEXANDER ROSBOR- OUGH, Realty and Investments, Ocean Park, Cal., was born at St. Johns, N. B., Feb. 1, 1856, the son of James I. Eraser and Leah (Ros- borough) Eraser. His father was a timber owner who operated successfully in the forests of Canada and Michigan. Mr. Eraser mar- ried Appalona Wedge, at Yale, Mich., July 17, 1877, and to them were born two daughters and a son, the latter Earl Alexander Eraser, being associated in business with his father. In 1863 Mr. Eraser's parents moved to Michigan, where the father was a pioneer timberman. There he spent his boyhood, working with his father. In 1871 a great fire swept the timber regions, destroy- ing two entire counties and the Erasers, with others, lost everything. After this disaster, Mr. Eraser stayed with his father for five years, helping him to rebuild his fortunes, and at the age of twenty quit the wilderness to engage in business for himself. He located at Spring Hill, Mich., where he owned and operated a cheese factory. After a year there he moved his plant to Amadore, Sanilac County, at the same time opening an implement factory at Yale, Mich. This business was in a flourishing con- dition when, in 1881, that county was destroyed by fire and the farmers were wiped out financially, and as they were many of them debtors of Mr. Eraser, his business was practically ruined. His health be- gan to fall about this time, but he remained in busi- ness long enough to help the neighborhood recover from the effects of fire; then in 1885 he sold out and moved to California. He landed at Los Angeles, March 11, 1885, and almost immediately entered the real estate business as a member of the firm of T. C. Narramore & Co. After a year he drew out and associated himself with the E. D. Lanterman Realty Co., in which con- nection he remained for about two years, partici- pating in the opening of several attractive Los An- geles tracts. He then returned to his former firm,- but after a brief period, organized the A. R. Eraser Realty Co. and branched out alone. Two years he operated singly, then took F. D. Lanterman into partnership under the title of the Eraser & Lanter- man Realty Co. In 1891 he organized the firm of Erazer, Cook & Pearsons, one of the largest in the city at that time and the first real estate office to be opened in Los Angeles to the south of the City Hall. Their offices were then at 244 Broadway. The firm operated for three years and then Mr. Eraser again went into business for himself. About this time he was ap- pointed Secretary of the Street Commissioner s de- partment, which had charge of the opening and widening of many streets, in LoS Angeles. He con- tinued this work, in addition to his own business, until 1900, when he went to Ocean Park. This was the turning point in his career and the one which was to place him among the real develop- ers of the Southwest. Eor fifteen years the Santa Fe Railroad had been trying to make a resort out of the tracts in the Santa Monica district, at what is known as Ocean Park, but had failed dismally. Mr. Eraser, associated with George Hart, then took up the Santa Ee holdings, a tract of thirteen acres The land was, for the most part, barren sand dunes. There were barely twenty-five inhabitants and the total assessment on the tract was $4500. Mr. Eraser and his partner Immediately set to work to build a town. They laid out streets, in- stalled a sewer system and cut the land up into building lots. Within a year the assessment on the land had jumped to $65,000, with $50,000 additional on improvements, mostly residences. In 1902 Mr. Eraser added to his holdings by the purchase of the interest of T. H. Dudley, who owned half of the Kinney lands on the Ocean Front. In 1904 he purchased the Recreation Gun Club tract, which had an ocean frontage of 4000 feet. This was bought for $135,000, and after it was improved the lots brought $800,000. In 1903 Mr. Eraser began the real work of mak- ing a great resort out of Ocean Park. At that time he built the Ocean Park Casino, at a cost of $35,000, and in 1905 erected the Ocean Park Bath House, a magnificent structure, costing $185,000. In 1906 he built the Ocean Park Auditorium at a cost exceed- ing $100,000, and that same year also put up the Masonic Temple and the Decatur Hotel, the former costing $45,000, the latter $80,000. The latest and greatest of all Mr. Eraser's build- ings came in the early part of 1911 when "Eraser's Million Dollar Pier," the largest and finest structure of its kind in the world, was completed. It extends 1000 feet over the ocean and houses a multitude of amusements, including a beautiful dancing pavilion. Besides these notable operations, Mr. Eraser built numerous improvements in Ocean Park, and is the man responsible for the construction of the cement promenade which joins Ocean Park with Venice. For many months the project of a board- walk between the two cities had been discussed, and Mr. Eraser, returning in May, 1906, from a tour of the Orient, found matters shaping up for the pas- sage of the ordinance authorizing It. He proposed that the promenade should be of cement, but was opposed in this idea by all the Councilmen, the May- ors of the two cities and the three newspapers pub- lished in Venice and Ocean Park. Born a fighter, Mr. Eraser would not back down, and fought so hard for his proposition that it was finally adopted, many of the Councilmen voting for the ordinance against their better judgment. Early in 1907 the cement promenade, a mile and a quarter in length and thirty feet in width, was completed, and it now forms one of the greatest improvements of its kind in the world. Those who had opposed it now admit its economic and lasting advantages. This promenade not only provided a modern link between the two resorts, but immediately raised the valuation on beach property $1,000,000. Other large properties opened by Mr. Eraser were the Ocean Park Heights tract, and a strip lying between Playa del Rey and Venice. He improved these properties for residence purposes and put them on a par with any of the Southern California localities. His interests are scattered over a large portion of the West, with the nucleus of his holdings located in the Ocean Park district. He has timber interests in the north of California and possesses lands and ranch properties in the Imperial Valley. He owns three-fourths of the Ocean Park Bath House, two-thirds of the Masonic Temple, and is president of the Topango Improvement Co., which possesses 600 acres north of Santa Monica, Cal. Mr. Eraser is fond of travel, having visited Eu- rope and practically every State in the Union, and has spent vacations in Alaska, Canada, Japan and the Pacific Islands. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Past Master of the Ocean Park Lodge, P. & A. M. ; a Mys- tic Shriner and Past Grand Patron of the Eastern Star in the State of California. He also belongs to the Elks, Foresters, Maccabees, and holds member- ships in the Jonathan and L. A. Country Clubs of Los Angeles, and the Breakers Club of Ocean Park. 210 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY =|RYANT, WESLEY J., real estate speculator, Los An- geles, California, was born in Greenville, Drake County, Ohio, on April 2, 1862. His father was Enos Bryant and his mother Sarah A. (Townsend) Bryant. He is a near relative of David Bryant, an early pioneer. Mr. Bryant married Mary A. Williams on January 9, 1888, at Cher- okee, Iowa, and fo them there have been born two children. Hazel Hope and A r 1 e y Tennyson Bryant. Mr. Bryant received his education in the pub- lic schools of Woodbury County and Cherokee, Iowa, graduating from the high school of the latter place. He studied law, but did not apply for admsision to the Bar, therefore never practiced his profession, preferring to go into the merchan- dise business. When he was seven years of age (1869) Mr. Bryant moved with his parents to Michigan, but they stayed there only one year, and then moved to Woodbury County, in the northwestern part of Iowa, a spot in the wil- derness where they endured the hardships and perils of frontier life. When he was twenty-one years of age Mr. Bryant was teaching school, and while so occupied de- voted much of his leisure time for a space of three years to the study of law, in which he could have qualified. Later, however, he followed the merchandise business for five years, a line in which he attained a consider- able degree of success. At the conclusion of this period he went to California and located at Palms, a suburb of Los Angeles, where he bought consider- able property. He opened real estate offices (1890) in the Natick House, Los Angeles, and shortly afterwards was appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace of Ballona Township for a three-year term. At the ex- piration of that term he was again elected for the following term of four years. A notable record which he made is that dur- W. J. BRYANT ing all of his term of office no appeals from his decisions ever resulted in a reversal by a higher court. At the close of his second term as Justice, Mr. Bryant devoted his time to real estate, a field in which he has attained prominence because of his handling numer- ous large deals which have been part of the advancement of the City of Los Angeles and vicinity, his word always being as good as a bond among his busi- ness associates. Mr. Bryant has at all times taken a keen inter- est in public affairs and is one of the men who has been concerned in vari- ous movements having for their object the im- provement of his adopted city. He was actively connected with the Citi- zens' Improvement Asso- ciation, an organization which has done much to build up Los Angeles' most beautiful residential section, and he is now President of the Ninth Ward Improvement As- sociation. Both of these bodies, in which Mr. Bry- ant is a dominant factor, have been important links in the chain of mod- ern upbuilders in the Southwest. In addition to his real estate and building activities, Mr. Bryant is an ardent worker for educational and for good road improvement. In State and National politics he is a staunch Republican, and in local affairs has worked with the Good Government forces. He is President of the Good Government organization of Boyle Heights, a populous section of the city, and is a member of the Good Government Committee of Los Angeles proper. In recent years this party, which is non-partisan, has become an influential force in the politics of Los Angeles. He is First Vice President of the Ohio Society, an organ- ization of Buckeye State natives; has been a member of the Knights of Pythias for 27 years, and also belongs to the Woodmen of the AA'orld. Mr. Bryant, who enjoys the con- fidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, has succeeded in every enterprise in Los Angeles that he has undertaken, and is very popular. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 211 R I F F I T H , FRANKLIN HOWARD, mining and oil, Los Angeles, California, was born at Baltimore, Maryland, forty-five years ago. He comes from one of the old families of his native state where they were prominent in both war and peace. He is a direct descendant of Captain Griffith of General Lafayette's staff. His an- cestors were generously represented in both the army and navy and in the political and religious up- risings of their day and their names are interwov- en with the history of the state, it being of historic record that the Griiifith family furnished more men for the Continental army than any other fam- ily in Maryland. Mr. Griffith is the present owner of the old family homestead, which has been owned by his ances- tors for many generations. It is located in Howard County, Maryland, the county deriving its name from a branch of the ■ family. Mr. Griffith received his education in the schools and institutes of Baltimore, from which he entered the business field about 1887, his first position being in the largest music house in his home city. He de- voted his energies to the work and at the age of nineteen was offered the position of manager of a large house in Philadelphia, which he accepted. At the age of twenty-one he went into the business for himself and at twenty-three became a manufacturer of a line of musical instruments that became known and were sold in every state in the Union and many foreign countries, including Africa and China. In 1897, after disposing of his manufactur- ing business, Mr. Griffith went to Alaska with the first rush for the gold fields, where he spent the following six years and gained his first experience in mining under the many hardships and privations of Alaska in those days. Mr. Griffith's life in Alaska reads like the F. H. GRIFFITH wildest romance. A book could be written on almost any one of the features which we are only able to mention here. For instance, he made thirty-two trips over the famous Chil- koot Pass, and in those days of unbeaten paths and treacherous slides one trip was all that the average man cared to make, and was much more than many were able to complete. Mr. Griffith twice made the entire length of the Yukon river over the snow and ice, and shot all of its rapids in summer. He traveled the ice and snow to and from Dyea, Atlin, Dawson, Nome and the Arctic ocean country, and on in- to Siberia. In fact, he went through all and helped to make the strenuous history, the pioneer history of About 1903 Mr. Grif- fith returned to the States, having decided to continue mining, but in a more habitable country. He spent several years under the other extreme climatic condition on the deserts of Arizona and California, prospecting and operating mines. He is still mining and has in operation several producing properties lo- cated in California and other mineral sections of the west. Mr. Griffith now spends his time equally divided between Los Angeles and the East, this arrangement .having necessi- tated over fifty trips across the continent to date. Among his numerous business interests and the offices held by him are president and director American Girl Mines Com- pany, and various offices in a number of other mining companies, in addition to being vice president of two oil companies and a director of three. Mr. Griffith is an accomplished musician, being an organist and composer and promi- nent in musical circles in both Philadelphia and Baltimore. He is a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia, also clubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. 212 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ■H^^^B^9tf<6y]%9B * 1 *• ^ k"' -^ 3 '/'^ — ::i,;^»* P^i *^»^-r \<^ ^^.-^ Rnnu* aTi^H^^K^^Bp^^VpF 3 1 / ■ COL. F. J. AMWEG NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 213 MWEG, COLONEL FREDERICK JAMES, Advisory Engineer and Manager of Building Operations, San Francisco, was born in Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Captain John M. Amweg and Mar- garet H. (Fenn) Amweg. His father was a Captain of Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War, and his ancestors were of old Revolutionary stock, for he is the great-grandson of Theophilus Fenn, a gallant officer of the American forces in Canada under General Wolfe, and is also a lineal descend- ant of Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, an American Fed- eralist, politician and jurist, who served in the Revolutionary War, was a Delegate to the Conti- nental Congress from Massachusetts from 1788 to 1796, United States Senator, 1796 to 1799; a Mem- ber of Congress, 1799 to 1801, and Judge of Massa- chusetts' Supreme Court from 1802 to 1813. He is also a nephew of General John Sedgwick, who lost his life at Spottsylvania Courthouse during the Civil war. On October 10, 1883, Colonel Amweg was mar- ried in Philadelphia to Miss Blanche E. Parsons, and is the father of two children, Blanche Ethel and Frederick J, Amweg, Jr. Colonel Amweg was educated both in private and public schools of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1873 he was graduated from the Lancaster High School and in 1876 took the degree of civil engineer from the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania. He had early determined to become an engineer and architect, and concentrated on technical studies to this end. Throughout the record of his professional ca- reer one can almost hear the clank of the survey- or's chain and the echo of the builder's hammer. His life is a story of activity and achievement in building operations that touches a large part of America and her possessions. Soon after his final graduation He joined the engineering staff of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and served thereon for nine years, toward the end of which period he acted as assistant engi- neer of bridges and buildings, and was in charge of the inspection over the entire system. He was also employed by the City of Philadel- phia to design a cantilever bridge over the Schuyl- kill River, on the line of Market street, and to superintend the construction of this important municipal work. Prom 1887 to 1899 Colonel Amweg conducted an engineering and contracting business in the East and had the active supervision of operations in- volving a great variety of structures, both public and private, and many millions of dollars. Among these some of the most noteworthy are: The Annex to the Boys' High School, the Drexel Building and a number of large schoolhouses, all these in Philadelphia; the handsome residence of Edward H. Williams, Rosemont, and that of Robert Pitcairn, Pittsburg; the Wemersville Asylum, Wer- nersvlUe; the Baldwin Hotel, Beach Haven, New Jersey; the Academy of Music and the Terry Build- ing, Roanoke, Virginia, and the Union Passenger Station, Kenova, Virginia. During this period he was also chief engineer of the City Avenue and Germantown Bridge Company and superintended the erection of the City Avenue Bridge over the Schuylkill River and of the new Radford Bridge, at Radford, Virginia. In 1899 Colonel Amweg was called to Honolulu to take charge, as chief engineer of the building and installing of an electric railroad, including car barns, power-house and power plant, at a total cost of more than a million and a half dollars. But while in the islands he did not permit the building busi- ness to languish through lack of energy. His ac- tivities ranged from schools and warehouses to of- fice buildings and wharves. A few of his important constructions there are the Brewer Warehouse, the Convent Building, the Lewers & Cooke and the two Mendoca buildings, the Sachs, the Stangenwald, the Normal and Royal Schools and the Hilo wharf at Hilo. After com- pleting the above works he went to San Francisco, in October, 1903, and engaged in the private prac- tice of his profession. Evidently the climate of California had no deter- rent effect upon Colonel Amweg's constructive pro- pensities. They have materialized here in the same range and variety that have marked them else- where. Among the notable expressions of his ability we find these buildings: The Brandenstein, the Butler, the California Wine Association, the Dorn & Dorn, the Hahnemann Hospital, the Monad- nock, the Rothschild, the Savage-Rae, the Von Dorn Hotel, the Woodward Investment Company, the Berkeley Station (Southern Pacific Railroad), the hospital of the Southern Pacific, the San Mateo Courthouse, the Kern County Courthouse and the reconstruction work of the United Railroads of San Francisco. Despite all this absorbing activity he has found time to act as consulting engineer for arbitration committees and to become a member of the follow- ing organizations : The Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution; Corinth- ian Lodge of Masons, of Pennsylvania; Oriental Chapter, 183, Pennsylvania; Golden Gate Command- ery, Knights Templar, of California; Aloha Temple, Mystic Shrine, Honolulu; Philadelphia Lodge of Perfection (fourteenth degree), De Joinville Coun- cil (sixteenth degree), Kilwinig Chapter, Rose Croix (eighteenth degree), all of Pennsylvania; Lodge No. 616, B. P. O. E., Honolulu; American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also Chief of Engineers of the National Guard of California, with the rank of Colonel. 214 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY HITTINGTON, JOHN WIL- LIAM, General Agent of the Aetna Life Insurance Com- pany, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in England, July 21, 1867. His father was John Whit- tington and his mother Lydia (Colbon) Whittington. In 1895 he married Ida May Belville in Los Angeles. There are four children, Wayne Colbon, John Wentworth, Dor- othy Winifred and Wil- liam Edmund Whitting- ton. Mr. Whittington was educated in the public schools of England, but took no higher studies at that time. In 1900 he took a special course at the University of South- ern California, in Los Angeles. As a young man, his first business effort was with the Midland Rail- road, in England. His first employment with this system was as a booking agent. The rail- road business did not ap- peal to him strongly as a tqHN W life profession, and in ■^ 1887 he became associated with Dr. Ber- nardo's Homes for Destitute Children, sit- uated in London, England. At the same time he was connected with the Wesleyan East England Mission in London. Mr. Whitting- ton was deeply interested in this work. He resigned his position in England, and in 1890 came to Los Angeles, where he has been situated from that time up to the pres- ent writing. On arriving here, he sought and found employment with M. A. Newmark & Company, with which firm he was con- nected for ten years. In 1900 he was given an opportunity and entered the life insurance business, which he has followed from that time on. His first work along this line was with the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey. He remained with this corporation for three years, at the end of which time he became the Southern Cali- fornia general agent for the Aetna Life In- surance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Since 1903 he has been associated with the Aetna Life Insurance Company. For two years he was President of the Los Angeles Life Underwriters' Association, and man- aged and directed the campaign which brought to the city of Los An- geles the National Asso- ciation Convention, which was held here in 1908. During 1909 and 1910 he was President of the National Life Under- w r i t e r s' Association. During these two years he made a deep study of life insurance as regulat- ed throughout the coun- try today. It was during this period that he visited practically all of the life underwriters' associations throughout this country, as well as in Canada, in- vestigating conditions of the various association branches. He spent over four months in traveling from city to city, covering over 18,000 miles on the trip. Mr. Whittington, who has made a deep study of life insurance for the past eleven years, is considered to be one of the best life insurance authorities in the West, and he has done much for the benefit and development of the work since taking up his residence in Los Angeles, where he is well known. Aside from his business associations, he is a prominent citizen of Los Angeles and is a director of the S. P. C. A. He is a member ' of the Chamber of Commerce and the Union League Club of Los Angeles and of the Sierra Club of San Erancisco. Mr. Whittington is a thirty-second degree Mason and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. WHITTINGTON NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 215 ART, GEORGE ALAND- SON, Hotel Proprietor, Los Angeles, California, was born at Freedom, Ohio, November 5, 1870, the son of H. A. Hart and Ordelia M. (Gleason) Hart. He mar- ried Ida M. Belden at West Farmington, Ohio, September 5, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of his native State, working, after his studies each day, on his father's farm. He remained there until he was eighteen years of age, at which time (1888) he moved to Los Angeles. He went to work in the Natick House, then the largest and best located hotel in the city, and re- mained in its employ for two years. At that time his father, who had lo- cated at Los Angeles in 1882, purchased the Nat- ick House and took his two sons, G. A. and D. H. Hart, into partnership with him, the three men conducting the hotel, which was headquarters for the leading mining and oil men of the coun- try. For two years they worked together and upon the death of Mr. Hart, Sr., in 1892, the brothers be- came sole proprietors of the house and have operated together from that time on, each contributing the best of his talents and ef- forts to make the success that has come to them. Mr. Hart was a close student of develop- ment and watched the growth of Los An- geles and the Southwest carefully, convinced that that section of the United States was destined to become a great center of trade and population. Being of progressive build, he and his brother were continually on the outlook for opportunities, and on July 19, 1903, they purchased the Rosslyn Hotel, lo- cated on South Main Street. They made an addition by adding to it the Lexington Ho- tel, conducting the two under the name of the Rosslyn, by which name the hostelry is known today. The management of the Harts has placed it among the principal hotels of Southern California. With the growth of the city and the ad- vance of real estate in Los Angeles, Mr. Hart and his brother made many extensive pur- chases for investment purposes, their hold- ings including large tracts in and near the city. In 1909, they became interested in ten thousand acres of land in Tulare County, California, and there built the town of Terra Bella. After laying out the town, building streets and making other improvements, they erect- ed a large hotel at a cost of $25,000, thus providing at the very birth of the place a modern caravan- sary. They participated in the organization of the First National Bank of Terra Bella, with G. A. Hart as president, and constructed a modern business block in that GEORGE A. HART jMace. The year after they opened the town of Terra Bella, Mr. Hart and his brother bought the town- site of Richgrove, also in Tulare County, and there, as in the case of their for- mer venture, soon had a promising little city laid out, with another hotel as one of its features. Mr. Hart bought realty in Hollywood and vicin- ity and at the time when the Los Angeles beach resorts were but dreams he purchased heavily in that region, and today is the owner of considerable valu- able Ocean Park real estate. When that re- sort was thrown open to the public he had charge of the realty operations and it is large- ly due to his management that that city grew from a barren stretch of sand to a modern seaside resort. Mr. Hart is also the owner of vast tracts of farming property in both Tulare and Kings County. He is the executive head of a number of realty companies and organiza- tions of Southern California. He is President of the Lindsey Orchard and Vineyard Com- pany; President of the Terra Bella Develop- ment Company, and holds a similar position with the Richgrove Land Co. He belongs to the Hotel Men's Association of Los Angeles, is a Mason, Los Angeles Consistory Number 3, of the Scottish Rite, and a Shriner. 2l6 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OROSCO, OLIVER, theatri- cal enterprises, Los Angeles, California, was born in Logan, Utah, in 1875 and as a child went to San Francisco. At age of nine years he began work- ing at nights in the box office of the old Morosco Theater, on Howard street, going to school in the daytime. At the age of fourteen he became a full-fledged t h e a t r i cai manager, alternating be- tween the management oi the first-class combina- tion theater in San Jose, the Auditorium, and act- ing as treasurer, business manager and press agent of the old Grand Opera House, San Francisco, California. In 1899 Mr. Morosco came to Los Angeles, bringing his wife and son, and took the Burbank Theater, after thirteen people had failed in it. He inaugurated the first high-class stock company in Southern California, and ever since has met with consistent success. He is now known all over America as one of the most successful theatri- cal men of America. Af- ter the success of the Burbank was assured Mr. Morosco began adding more theaters to his holdings, and built the handsome Majestic Theater, which is conducted as the first-class combination house of the city. Afterwards he acquired an interest with Frederick Belasco of San Francisco, George Baker of Portland, Ore- gon, and Harry W. Bishop of Oakland, Cali- fornia, in stock theaters throughout the Northwest, numbering six in all. During Mr. Morosco's brief career, for he is still a young man, he has not only man- aged theaters, but has written plays which have had long and successful runs, and re- cently he entered the Eastern field as a pro- ducer, but he religiously sticks to Eos An- geles as his home. It is due to Oliver Mo- rosco that stock company work has reached such a high plane of excellence. He pro- duces the best class of high royalty plays, and his company is the highest salaried or- OLIVER MOROSCO ganization of its kind in the world. In addi- tion to maintaining this expensive company, Mr. Morosco has instituted the custom of bringing stars to the Burbank for special en- gagements. Among these are Richard Ben- nett, formerly leading man for Maude Adams and now one of the Liebler and Company stars ; Edgar Selwyn, the successful author- actor, and Margaret Illington. A unique feature of Mr. Morosco's career as a producing manager is that he has never met with failure, every new play that has received its premiere at the Burbank having been enthusiasti- cally received. Every new play he produces must first be gone over thoroughly by himself, and at times he changes manuscripts for authors or makes suggestions for improvements. His far- sightedness in these mat- ters is proved by the success of Burbank first productions, which al- ways have enjoyed runs. Mr. Morosco, aside from controlling the play market of America for the West, also has the franchise for the high- class traveling attrac- tions for his home city, Los Angeles, and also the franchise for the medium priced traveling attractions, the for- mer going to his Majestic Theater and the latter to the Lyceum, which was remod- eled this summer (1911) from the former Orpheum. In the spring of 1911 the Morosco-Black- wood Company was formed, in which are consolidated all of Mr. Morosco's Los An- geles theatrical interests mentioned, and also the Belasco Theater interests, which in- clude the present Belasco Theater and a mag- nificent new theater to be completed in 1912 on Broadway, near Eighth street. Mr. Morosco is president of the Morosco-Black- wood Company and has absolute control of the productions on each stage controlled by the organization. Apparently the only field which this in- defatigable manager has not entered is vaudeville. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 217 TIRDIVANT, WASHBURN B., Southern California Man- ager of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born at Wilson, Wiscon- sin, September 29, 1860. His father was John J. Stirdivant and his mother Eliza (Bryant) Stirdivant. On June 20, 1892, he married Ella Frances Besant at Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin. To them were born Earl B. Stirdivant, Mil- dred A. Stirdivant, Bry- ant Stirdivant and Evelyn E. Stirdivant. He obtained his edu- cation in the country and high schools of his native state. At the age of fifteen he entered the grocery . business in Wisconsin and for seven years con- tinued in this work. At the end of that time he left the grocery business to engage as an appren- tice in a drug store where he remained for two years following. Then for one year he was engaged in the shoe business. His health having partly failed, he quit work and traveled in the South and West for more than three years. At the end of his travels, he obtained a position with the Grand Union Tea Company in 1887, and for three years he remained with that corporation. In 1890, he determined to enter business for himself. At this time he incorporated the Boston Tea Company of Sheboygan, Wiscon- sin, with himself as sole proprietor. He suc- cessfully operated this concern for a period of about three years in Wisconsin, made it a paying proposition and was able to set aside a fair amount of capital. His next venture was in the insurance business. He identified himself with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company under the management of James S. Norris of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He became efficient in this line of work, and in a short time had worked up a substantial business. His work at that place was so attended with success that in 1894 he was appointed to fill the posi- tion of District Manager of the company at Janesville, Wis. Two years later he was ad- vanced again, being stationed at Los Angeles, California, where he became the Southern California agent of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. From that period down to date he has had charge of the important Southern Cali- fornia end of the compa- ny's interests. In 1902 he was ad- vanced to the position of manager of the compa- ny's extensive business in Southern California and today continues in that capacity. Under his man- agement the company, which has headquarters at Hartford, Connnecti- cut, and branches all over the country, now claims the Los Angeles branch as one of its strongest lo- cations. Mr. Stirdivant's territory covers every- W. B. STIRDIVANT .^ing south of Tehachapi. His many policy holders in Southern Califor- nia in the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company assure him of a larger success in the future. Since going to Southern California, Mr. Stirdivant has played an active part in the community's welfare. At the present time he resides in Pasadena, California. In that place he is a member of the Tournament of Roses Committee, an enterprise which annually at- tracts the interests of the world. He is a member of the Pasadena Board of Trade and of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city. In Los Angeles he is a member of the Jonathan, Union League and City Clubs. He is also an active member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, one of the leading civic organizations of the Southland. 2lS PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY THEODORE MARTIN ARTIN, THEODORE, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Los Angeles, California, was born in the city of Quebec, Canada, the son of Theo- dore and Isabella Martin. He mar- ried Frances M. McClure at Salida, Colorado. They have one son, Theodore F. Martin. When a small boy, after his father's death, Mr. Martin's mother moved to Chicago. There he re- ceived his boyhood education, later going to Colo- rado, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of that State. Forming a co-partnership with the Hon. Charles S. Libby, with offices in both Salida and Buena Vista, he selected mining law and land office pro- cedure as a specialty, and soon became prominent by reason of his connection with some of the promi- nent mining cases in that and the adjoining Lead- ville district. He went into politics and soon made himself felt. His grasp of party affairs, his eloquence, his popularity with the leaders of his party and with the public brought him quiclc success. He became a well known public figure. In 1891 he was elected District Attorney of the Eleventh Judicial District of Colorado, embracing the counties of Chaffee, Park, Custer and Fremont, and was very successful in that capacity. Moving to California in 1895, he has been ac- tively engaged in the practice of his profession. His law library, especially with reference to works which treat of his specialty, is one of the best in the State. He is the author of "Martin's Mining Law and Land Office Procedure." This work, which appeared in 1908, has been well received by the legal profes- sion and is considered an authority on the subjects treated. Mr. Martin is a member of the Jonathan, Union League and Sierra Madre clubs. H. H. ROSE OSE, HENRY HOWARD, City Jus- tice, ex-officio Police Judge, Law- yer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Taycheedah, Fond du Lac County, Wis., Nov. 27, 1856. He is the son of Henry Fontaine Rose and Mary Ward (Howard) Rose. He married Ger- trude Colden Ruggles (deceased), of Fond du Lac, Aug. 20, 1884. She died May 28, 1909, since when he contracted a second marriage with Leonie E. Klein at Ventura, Cal. There is one son by the first marriage, Augustus Ruggles Rose. He attended St. Paul's Parish School and the Fond du Lac High School. Then he studied law in the office of his father at Fond du Lac, Wis. He was admitted to the bar July 8, 1881. Judge Rose was employed as traveling auditor for Warder, Bushnell & Co. of Chicago for one year, then was given a similar position with the Wheel and Seeder Co. of Fond du Lac, and later with the Fuller & Johnson Co. of Madison, Wis. In 1885 he entered the firm of Briggs & Rose, dealers in farm machinery, at Fond du Lac, and was a partner in this business until 1888. He then traveled for pleasure for a while, and in the fall of 1888 he went to Pasadena, Cal., where he resumed law practice. In Pasadena he soon made himself a public fig- ure on account of his interest in civic affairs. Two years after his arrival he was nominated and elected to his first office. Made Justice of the Peace of Pasadena Town- ship, 1890; 1891 to 1893, City Recorder of Pasa- dena; Deputy Dist. Atty., Los Angeles County, 1903 to 1905; since March, 1905, City Justice, Los An- geles. He was a member of the Fond du Lac National Guards from 1880 to 1888. He is a member of the California, Caledonian and Celtic clubs, the Elks, So. Cal. Rod and Reel Assn. and L. A. Bar Assn.; also to Arlington Lodge, F. and A. M., Crown Chapter, No. 72, Pasadena. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 219 H. J. LELANDE ELANDE, HARRY JASON, Coun- ty Clerk, Los Angeles County, was born October 28, 1871, at Sonora, California. His father was Peter J. Lelande, and his mother Adele (St. Cyr) Lelande. On August 19, 1895, he married Mary Winifred Davidson at Pasadena, Cal. Their children are Reginald D., Grace Dorothy, Marjorie Helen, Davidson S. and Patricia. Mr. Lelande has resided in Los Angeles thirty-nine years. Attended Los Angeles schools until 1890, then went to Phillips' Academy at Andover, Mass.; Shef- field Scientific Dept. of Yale in 1890. In November, 1892, he purchased the interest of R. L. McKnight, of Edwards & McKnight, booksellers and stationers. In 1894 he purchased the interest of Mr. Edwards and disposed of the business in 1895. Formed a partnership with Victor Wankowski in the fire in- surance business, and also had the agency for the Continental Building and Loan Associa- tion of San Francisco. He accepted a position in the City Assessor's office in 1899, and was Deputy City Assessor, 1899 to 1900; Correspondence Clerk in the City Tax Collector's office, 1900 to 1902; City Clerk, 1903 to 1910, inclusive. He was elected County Clerk, November, 1910, assuming duties in that office January, 1911. Mr. Lelande polled the highest vote on the Republican ticket. He is director, Bankers' Guaranty Loan Co.; Grizzly Bear Publishing Co.; secretary, Vernon Athletic Association; director, American. Machine Tool Co., and of the Gates Oil Co. He Is vice-presi- dent of the Cooper Ornithological Club and member of many reform and scientific societies. Mr. Lelande is a member of the Union League, Los Angeles Athletic, Gamut, City Federation and Ellis Clubs, Hollenbeck Lodge of Masons, Elks Lodge No. 99. ED. W. HOPKINS OPKINS, ED W., County Assessor for Los Angeles County, Califor- nia. Born March 25, 1863, at Os- kaloosa, Iowa, the son of John Y. Hopkins and Mary (Needham) Hopkins. He married Martha L. McVicker at Los Angeles, April 4, 1895, and is the father of six children: Mary, Ella, Ruth, John, Bes- sie and Helen Hopkins. He received a common school education and in time took up reading of law and prepared himself for the Bar. He was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Iowa in the year 1887. After getting his parchment he moved from Iowa to Kansas and there practiced his profession, but it did not yield much of a living in those days and he moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1889. There he obtained a position as traveling auditor and collector for a machine house and remained with that firm until he went to Los Angeles in 1891. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Mr. Hop- kins took up real estate, opening offices on West Fourth street. He later took into the firm a part- ner, and they maintained a profitable trade up (o 1895, when Mr. Hopkins sold his share to accept an appointment as Deputy Assessor of Los Angeles County. While in the real estate business the firm handled a considerable amount of downtown property and his work in that line was crowned with success. He held the position of Deputy Assessor for twelve years, and in 1907 Ben Ward, the Assessor made him Chief Deputy. That year Mr. Ward died and Mr. Hopkins was appointed County Assessor by the Board of Supervisors to fill the unexpired term of Ward. He was elected County Assessor in 1910, and has served nearly a year of his term. Mr. Hopkins is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic Shriner, Knight of Pythias and a member of Union League and City Clubs of Los Angeles. 220 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ASHION, JAMES A., Railroad Builder, Los Angeles, California, was born in Glengarry County, Dominion of Canada, May 13, 1860, his parents being sturdy repre- sentatives of the Canadian type. His father was Daniel Cashion and his mother Jane (Burton) Cashion. He married Jessie McDonnell at Ventura, California, December 24, 1900, and to them there have been bom two children, Jean Elizabeth and James Angus Cashion. Mr. Cashion attended the common schools of his native county and remained in Can- ada until he was 19 years old, at which time he went to Kansas. Kansas at that peri- od was in the midst of great railroad construction and Mr. Cashion embarked in that business, which he has fol- lowed ever since and in which he is now engaged. Starting In 1879 as a mule driver in a construction camp, he learned the busi- ness with such rapidity he was made a foreman in six months. Prom that time on his life has been one of hard work and progress, until to- day, with thousands of miles of railroad attesting his abil- ity, the name of Cashion is known from the Missouri to the Pacific. Mr. Cashion's field of op- erations has Deen in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Old Mexico, and during this time some of the largest railroad construction enterprises, especially in Old Mexico, have been successfully concluded under his direction and supervision. In 1886 Mr. Cashion was superintendent of con- struction for Grant & McDonald on the line from Arkansas City, Kansas, down into the Indian Ter- ritory, through that section on which Guthrie and other thriving towns now stand. At that time there were no towns in that barren country and the stations were named as the road was built. This was one of Mr. Cashion's earliest successes and was followed by numerous others during the next fifteen years. Mr. Cashion began his important Arizona ac- tivities in 1901, by which time he had become vice president, general manager and one of the princi- pal owners of the Grant Brothers Construction Company. His first road there was the Prescott & Eastern, running from Mayer to Crown King, with a branch to Poland. This was attended with great difficulty, the route passing through a par- ticularly rough stretch of country. About the time J. A. CASHION this line was completed Mr. Cashion began the construction of the Phoenix & Eastern (now the Arizona & Eastern), extending 100 miles from Phoenix to Winkelman. This was completed in 1903. The Arizona & California Road, running from Wickenburg to Parker, on the Colorado River, a distance of 108 miles, was the next one completed, in 1905. This was an unusually strenuous period for Mr. Cashion, for about that same time he built the Rio Puerco cut-off from Belen to Del Rio, in New Mexico, and the Ari- zona Southern Road from Red Rock to Silver Bell, in Arizona. As the three operations mentioned above were near- ing completion Mr. Cashion invaded Old Mexico for the Southern Pacific Company, and there tor the last six years or more has been at work carving ways through the rough country of the Re- public to the south. In that comparatively short period of time he has constructed more than 1000 miles, and many miles of it have oeen through solid rock, necessi- tating, in addition to diffi- cult grading, the building of numerous tunnels. His first road in Mexico was that reaching from No- gales to Cananea, and was followed by the building of the line from Corral, in the State of Sonora, up the Yaqui River to Tonichi. This is 100 miles long, through a wild, rocky canyon. Another hard piece of construction was that from Nocozari to Montezuma. The most notable line, however, built in Mexico by Mr. Cashion is the 800 miles from Corral to Tepic, running through parts of the States of So- nora, Sinaloa and the Territory of Tepic, with branches extending from Navajoa to Alamos and from Qulla to El Dorado, in the sugar region. Mr. Cashion has also built hundreds of miles of railroad in the States of California and Colorado. He is today, and has been for years, vice presi- dent and general manager of the Grant Brothers Construction Company, of Los Angeles, and is also vice president and a director of the Hibernian Sav- ings bank of that city. Aside from his construction enterprises and banking interests, Mr. Cashion is a heavy land- holder in the famous Salt River Valley of Arizona, where his ranches, of the finest soil in the vaiiey, are pointed out as models. These ranches are stocked with the best horses, mules and cattle in that section of the Great Southwest. Mr. Cashion's only lodge affiliation is the B. P. 0. Elks, and he is a lite member of Los Angeles Lodge, No. 99. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 221 ATTISON, FITCH C. E., Ms Physician and Surgeon, Pas- I adena, Cal., was born at Lou- isville, Ky., May 4, 1861, the son of Samuel J. Mattison and Kate (Jenning) Mattison. He married Helen Blake, deceased, January 24, 1889. There is one child, Bessie Mattison, born De- cember 12, 1890. Dr. Mattison is a descend- ant of a family that ante- dates the Revolution on both the paternal and the maternal side, and whose men have fought against the Indians, in the Revo- lution, and Mexican and the Civil Wars. He was given a first cliass education in the schools thought best fitted for him. Zachary Taylor Pindell's, at Annapolis, Maryland, was his first school, and the Maryland Institute of Baltimore added to his knowledge For training in the medi- cal profession he sought the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, and there he received his degree as Doctor of Med- icine. While he studied he worked and earned his way. After leaving the Maryland Institute he was given a job in his father's store in Balti- more. When he was twenty he struck out independently for himself and decided to go to Chicago. There he entered upon an ener- getic career. He went to work for the Pocket Railway Guide Company, and was made first assist- ant secretary. Later, as his knowledge of the business grew, he was made editor of the Guide. Meanwhile, he became a part owner in a dru"' store located in Chicago, and his interest in the concern naturally led to his study of medicine. It was then that he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons. After his graduation he located in Chicago and practiced both medicine and surgery from 1888 until 1898, when he moved to Pas- adena. He resumed his practice in that city, making a specialty of surgery, ! now recognized as one of the F. C. E. MATTISON and most efficient surgeons in the West. Not long after his arrival in Southern Cali- fornia he was offered the post of surgeon of the Southern Pacific Railway, which he ac- cepted and still holds. The State of California has honored him by an appointment as one of the State Board of Medical Examiners. He has been a mem- ber of the Public Health Commission of the State of California, and he has acted as chairman of that organization. In this he was able to pro- mote what has' always been one of his chief in- terests, the safeguarding of the public health. He has been for a number of years chairman of the Los Angeles County Milk Commission, and the work he has done in this connection has been a model of efficiency, and has attracted the atten- tion of the health depart- ments of the American cities. The capital that he has accumulated in his indus- try he has invested in sev- e r a 1 substantial enter- prises ; notable among these is the Pasadena Sav- ings and Trust Company, one of the big institutions of the kind in the State, of which he is a director. He is accounted one of the financially solid men of Pasadena. He is a member and director of the Board of Trade. He is a member of all the more important medical associations, both local and national. Among them are the American Medical As- sociation, the California State Medical Asso- ciation, the Los Angeles County Medical As- sociation, the Pacific Association of Railway Surgeons, Clinical and Pathological Society, American Society for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Milk Com- mission. He is prominent in society and in the club life of Pasadena. He is president of the Overland Club of Pasadena; member Los Angeles University Club ; member Annan- dale Country Club, Valley Hunt Club, Tuna Club, and of others in Chicago and Southern California. 222 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY PHI'LO JONES NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 223 ONES, PHILO, Real Estate Owner and Operator, Brawley, Imperial County, California, is a native of Davis, Macomb County, Michigan. He was born January 22, 1874, and, like many boys of what was then the great Northwest, was reared on a farm. His father was David T. Jones, a native of Wales, England, and his mother was Lavina Sutliff Jones. On August 4, 1909, Mr. Jones married Myrtle Hil- len Nance at Santa Maria, California. As a boy he attended the public schools of Macomb County, Michigan, and of Ontario, Cali- fornia, where the family had moved during Jones' boyhood. He prepared for college at the Chatfey Collegiate Institute, Ontario, California, where he graduated in June, 1893. In 1894 he entered the University of Southern California, which he at- tended for one year. During the years 1895-1896 Mr. Jones was interested in business, but returned to college in September, 1896. He left college at the end of his junior year to enter business. As a student he was among the leaders of his classes; was president of the class of '93 at Chaffiey for four years and held the same office in the freshman class at the University of Southern Cali- fornia. He was a member of the Sigma Chi Fra- ternity while in attendance there. He worked his way in college by owning the college printing office and the university paper, "The Courier," of which he was alternately editor and business manager until June, 1898. Mr. Jones as a young man was in business with his father at Ontario, California, up to the time when he left for college, 1894, and he himself owned a bicycle and sporting goods store. Upon leaving college in June, 1898, he was given the management of the Union Iron Works of Los Angeles, which plant was in litigation at that time and was sold the following year. He spent the next two years as inside manager and buyer for Nick- lin's Southwest Printers' Supply and American Type Founders Company of Los Angeles. In 1901 he was offered the position as superintendent of the Sa- linas Water, Light and Power Company, in Mon- terey County. This position he held for three years, resigning on a change of ownership. Mr. Jones next entered the field of construction work, being variously engaged during the follow- ing three years in installing water plants and re- inforced concrete work for the Los Angeles Pacific Railway, rebuilding an electric plant for the Valley Electric Company at Santa Maria and latterly as- sistant superintendent of the Los Angeles Invest- ment Company. While employed with the latter firm Mr. Jones was invited to join an association of capitalists in- terested in the newly awakened Imperial Valley, and particularly in the organization of the Brawley Town and Improvement Company. He thereupon turned all of his energies in this direction, and in the purchasing of the townsite of Brawley he bought a sixth interest, as did his father, David T. Jones. The organization of the new corporation was completed in May, 1907, and on June 1 of the same year he took charge of the enterprise as Secretary and General Manager. In June, 1910, the company, desiring to enlarge its field of operation, took over the Imperial Investment Company, capitalized at $200,000, merging it with the Brawley Town and Improvement Company. Six months later he, with his father, secured the controlling interest in the company and he was elected President, which po- sition he still holds together with the general man- agement. Immediately after this the corporation purchased nearly one thousand acres of additional lands and laid out the new townsite of Westmore- land, with several small farm subdivisions, which properties are now being developed and sold. In June, 1911, with Los Angeles capitalists, he purchased a controlling interest in the Southern California Land Company, owning a half million dollars' worth of Imperial Valley realty, and was elected President of that corporation, after which its interests were consolidated with those of the Imperial Investment Company. The combined com- panies own and operate ten tracts of land, includ- ing six townsites, in the Imperial Valley. While in Imperial Valley his career has been linked with numerous notable enterprises that tend for the advancement of that district. He has taken a leading part there, in both business and politics. When he had been in the valley but thirty days he was appointed chairman of the "Brawley for County Seat" Committee in 1907 on the organization of Imperial County. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brawley Chamber of Commerce, which position he has held with distinction since 1907. He was a member of the Executive Com- mittee and Acting Secretary of the Imperial County Chamber of Commerce during the years 1909-1910. He was appointed member of the Republican County Central Committee in 1910. Mr. Jones is interested largely in many of the progressive corporations and organizations of that district, among which are the following: President and General Manager of the Imperial Investment Company and Southern California Land Company; President of the People's Abstract and Trust Com- pany of El Centro, Imperial Valley; Vice President of the Brawley Co-Operative Building Company; Vice President of the Imperial Valley Milk Com- pany, and Secretary of the Westmoreland Water Company. He is a member of the Brawley Lodge, 402, F. and A. M., and the Santa Maria Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of the Han- cock Council of Los Angeles, Junior O. U. A. M., and of the Brawley Club. He is also President of the Board of Trustees of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church at Brawley. 224 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY DR. H. P. BARTON ^'^ARTON, HERBERT PARKS, Sur- geon, President and General Man- ager, Clara Barton Hospital, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Wor- 1^^^^^^ cester, Mass., Dec. 25, 1866. His g ^-Afflj father was Samuel R. Barton and his mother Amelia L. (Parks) Barton. Dr. Barton is a nephew of Clara Barton of Red Cross fame. He married on October 18, 1890, Miss Frances John- stone Vasseur, in Brooklyn, N. Y. They have one son, Chandler Parks Barton. Dr. Barton was educated in the public schools of Oxford, Mass., graduating from high school in 1882. He then attended Worcester Academy and Hinman's Business College. Leaving them he con- ducted a fire insurance agency in Webster, Mass., until 1889, when he entered the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1890. Did post-graduate work in the Manhattan Bye and Ear Hospital and the N. Y. Polytechnic in 1892. In 1891 and 1892 Dr. Barton practiced his pro- fession in New York City, during which time he was a member of the Board of Health. He moved to Denver, Colo., in 1892, where he practiced, but had to return to Worcester, Mass., be- cause of poor health. He practiced there four years. In 1897 Dr. Barton went to Ontario, Cal., assist- ing in organizing the Board of Health. He was also one of the Board of Library Trustees of that city. After staying two and one-half years, he went to Los Angeles, where he practiced, and in 1904 organ- ized the Clara Barton Hospital. He belongs to the Los Angeles County Medical Society, California State Medical Society, American Medical Associa- tion and Los Angeles Academy of Medicine. He is a member Jonathan Club, Gamut Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles Lodge No. 99, B. P. O. E., thirty-second degree member Los Angeles Scot- tish Rite and belongs to Al Malaikah Shrine. C. J. CURTIS URTIS, CLINTON JAMES, presi- dent and manager of the Los An- geles Dock and Terminal Com- pany Long Beach, Cal. He was born at Winona, Minnesota, Au- gust 21, 1870. Herman E. Curtis was his father and his mother was Mary M. Camp. On April 17, 1901, he married Lulu M. Kimberly at Redlands, Cal. There are three children, Caleb Camp, John Kimberly and Helen Kimberly Curtis. Mr. Curtis was educated at Phillips' Academy, Andover, Mass., which he attended from 1887 to 1890, graduating in the latter year. He next entered Yale University, in which college he was a member of the class of 1894. Illness compelled his with- drawal during his sophomore year. He went to California in the spring of 1893, and settled at Redlands, to recuperate and interest himself in growing oranges. Between the years 1897 and 1905 he engaged in orange shipping from that district. In 1897 he became Owner of the West American Fruit Company of that city and brought that corporation into the foremost ranks as an orange shipping concern. He became a di- rector in the California Citrus Association. In January, 1906, he sold his interests in the orange shipping business, resigned from the Cali- fornia Citrus Association, and accepted his present position with the Los Angeles Dock and Terminal Company. Since that time he has had the presi- dency and managership of that corporation and his work in Southern California in the interest of that company is widely known. He still retains certain of his old Interests at Redlands, where he is a director in the Redlands National Bank and the Union Savings Bank. Mr. Curtis is a member of the University Club of Redlands and of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and president of Virginia Country Club of Long Beach. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 225 GEORGE H. HUTTON ISIDORE B. DOCKWEILER 1 UTTON, GEORGE HOWARD, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County, was born Au- gust 5, 1870, at Drummond, Can- ada. His father was Joseph An- drew Hutton and his mother Harriett Bridgman Hutton. He married Dolores Egleston, September 1, 1897, at Chatfield, Minnesota. One son was born, George Robert Egleston Hutton. Judge Hutton came to California in 1897 and located at Santa Monica, where he has since made his home. Judge Hutton received his preparatory educa- tion at Hamilton University, St. Paul, of which in- stitution his uncle, Rev. George H. Bridgman, was president. He attended the State University at St. Paul and later the College of Law of the Univer- sity of Minnesota at Minneapolis. He was admit- ted to practice in 1893. In 1906 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles for a term of six years. He was engaged, prior to his election, in a suc- cessful practice and was for seven years attorney for former Senator John P. Jones, whose vast in- terests required much legal work. He was also a trustee under the will of the late J. W. Keating and increased notably this famous fortune. Judge Hutton Is regarded as an authority upon water laws of the "Western States, which knowl- edge has brought him fame. He has been frequent- ly called upon to address national irrigation con- gresses, and has tried many important water cases in every county in Southern California. He is an ardent advocate of the application of civil law prin- ciples to arid countries. It is notable that of the many cases he has tried he has never had a water case reversed. Judge Hutton has enthusiastically taken up the study of geology and hydraulics. He is prominent in the Masonic order and is a member of the California Club. OCKWEILER, ISIDORE B., attor- ney, Los Angeles, California, was born in that city on December 28, 1867. His father was Henry Dockweiler, a Bavarian by birth, and his mother, Margaretha Sugg, was an Alsatian. On June 30, 1891, he mar- ried Miss Gertrude Reeve at San Francisco. They have eleven children. Mr. Dockweiler was educated at St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles, from which he received a commercial diploma in 1883 and the degree of A. B., 1887; A. M., 1889, and the honorary degree of L. L. M. in 1905 and L. L. D. in 1911. In 1883 Mr. Dockweiler was employed as a bookkeeper, which position he held for two years, leaving to return to college. After graduating in 1887 he engaged in surveying for one year and then commenced to study law. He was admitted to the California bar on October 14, 1889, and thereafter to the bar of the Federal Courts in California and the United States Supreme Court. He has been a trustee of St. Vincent's College since October 1, 1890. He was a director of the Los Angeles Public Library from 1897 to 1899, and from February, 1901, to February 2, 1911. He is a trustee of the State Normal School at San Diego, California, having been commissioned to serve from December, 1898, to July, 1912. Mr. Dock- weiler was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California on the Democratic ticket in 1902 and a delegate from California to the Democratic Na- tional Convention of 1908. Mr. Dockweiler is a member of the California, Gamut and Newman clubs; Chamber of Commerce, Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America; Los Angeles Bar Association, American Bar Association, Native Sons of the Golden West, B. P. O. B., Knights of Columbus, Young Men's Institute, and the Royal Arcanum. 226 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY m HOMAS, WILLIAM, senior partner of the firm of Thomas, Beedy and Lanagan, Attorneys at Law, San Francisco, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 5, 1853, the son of Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Mary Ann (Park) Thomas. Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were among the early residents of New England, where they won distinction in various walks of life. His great- grandfather, Isaiah Thomas, who was a close personal friend of Benjamin Franklin, was founder of the famous publication, "The Worcester Spy," as well as the "Ameri- can Antiquarian Society," and for many years was postmas- ter of Worcester. Benjamin F. Thomas, the father of Wil- liam Thomas, was one of New England's greatest orators and lawyers, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachu- setts, a member of Congress, and President of the Suffolk Bar Association, in Boston. His son, William, came to California in May, 1877, and settled in San Francisco, where he is known as one of the leading corporation law- yers of the State. In March, 1875, he was married in Cam- bridge, Mass., to Miss Emma Gay. The children of this marriage are Molly (now Mrs. Latham McMullin), Helen (now Mrs. Kimble), Benja- min, and Gertrude Thomas. After attending the public schools of Massachu- setts Mr. Thomas entered Harvard University, in 1869, when he was but fifteen years old. He was graduated therefrom A. B., with the class of '73, and in 1876 took the degree of L.L. B. from the Har- vard Law School, in the following year coming to San Francisco. During the thirty-four years that Mr. Thomas has practiced his profession in San Francisco he has been a living illustration of the value of the training provided by Harvard University, and the famous Harvard Law School, to those who care to take advantage thereof. From the start his efforts met with a success which has grown steadily with the years, and which has led to his present promi- nent position among the attorneys and financiers of the State. In the latter respect he has become almost as well known as in the former, heredity and training having directed him into channels where the greatest opportunities are to be found by the men capable of grasping them. His first important venture beyond the practice of the law was as organizer of the California Fruit WILLIAM THOMAS Canners' Association, of which he was the first president, for three years. This is today one of the largest industrials of the State. He was and is president of the Pioneer Land Company, which was the pioneer corporation of the Tulare County Citrus Belt, and the promoter and patron of the flourishing town of Porterville. He was also the organizer of the California Title Insurance and Trust Company, and for many years he was the chairman of its legal staff. Although Mr. Thomas' practice has been of the non- sensational order, confined largely to corporation law, some of his cases have at- tracted wide public interest. Among these was that of Waite vs. the City of Santa Cruz. This involved about $360,000, a defective bond is- sue, and eight years of liti- gation. It was carried back and forth from court to court, went to the United States Supreme Court and back to the Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, and was finally won for the plaintiff by Mr. Thomas, who had a writ of mandate issued compelling the Common Council of Santa Cruz to levy the tax. After the great fire of 1906 Mr. Thomas took a promi- nent position as attorney for the insured. In this connec- tion, he went to Europe, accompanied by Oscar Sutro, in the fall of 1906, in the grim pursuit of four German fire insurance companies, which had "welched." He represented on that trip some sixty law firms, who turned over to him and Mr. Sutro the claims of their clients. They succeeded in making settle- ments securing $7,000,000 for San Francisco. Mr. Thomas' political and civic activities have been limited to a Police Commissionership, from which he resigned after five days, because he "didn't like it," and to his Trusteeship, for two years, of the Home for Feeble Minded Children. In his prac- tice he has co-operated with other well-known law- yers of the city, his partnerships having undergone the following changes of name: Chickering & Thomas, Thomas & G«rstle, to the present firm of Thomas, Beedy & Lanagan. He Is also a director in many other financial and industrial institutions. His clubs and associations are: The University (of which he was the first President), Harvard of San Francisco (President for two years), California Water and Forest Association (first President), Harvard Law School Association (Vice President), Commonwealth Club (charter member), and the Bohemian of San Francisco. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 227 i '^f^^^ ^ TRATTON, HOWARD CLARENCE, Oil and Mining Operator, San Francisco, was born in Cadiz, Ohio, September 14, 1861, the son of Howard Whittlesey and Mary (White) Stratton. On the paternal side of the house he comes of an old EngUsh family, authentic records of which date back to the fourteenth century, and whose American descendants were among the early colonists of Virginia, Long Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. His ma- ternal ancestors, who were originally Welsh, settled in Pennsylvania. The first of the Strattons to reach America came to Virginia in the Spring of 1628, Joseph Stratton by name, bringing with him his grant of land of 500 acres. The following year he was a member of the House of Burgesses. A great many of the name Stratton saw military service in the Co- lonial wars, the French and Indian war and in the War of the Revolution, most of them as officers. Mr. How- ard Stratton's grandfather, William Obediah Stratton, only son of William and Mary Ann (Howard) Stratton, was born in Balti- more, Md., and was one of the first settlers of Ohio, a clergyman by occupation. Another American ancestor of note was Elisha Whit- tlesey, Controller of the United States Treasury under Lincoln. On April 12, 1882, Mr. H. C. Stratton was married in Portland, Ore., to Miss Cora Alice Cox, and is the father of Vivien S. (Charles- ton) and Clarence Melville Stratton. In 1870 Mr. Stratton left the grammar school of Warren, Ohio, and from 1870 to 1875 attended the public schools of lola and Oswego, Kansas. He then moved to Albany, Oregon, where until 1878 he was a student in 'the Albany Collegiate Institute, which he left in that vear to become a "devil" in a printing office of that town. After following this trade for about three years he decided, in 1880, that there was "noth- ing in it" for him, at least. He then entered the Bureau of the Merchants' Exchange of H. C. STRATTON Portland, Oregon, and through 1880-1881 was engaged chiefly in making reports on the mar- kets, shipping intelligence, etc. At the end of this period he became Secretary to the Purchas- ing Agent of the Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion Company, the road of which was then under construction by Henry Villard, and remained with them until the completion of the system in 1884. His next occupation was that of bookkeeper in the Port- land Savings Bank, for which he was chosen among the various com- petitors. In this capacity he showed such aptitude that at the end of a year he was elected cashier, over the heads of all the other employes in line for the promotion. Under his supervision the bank's bus- iness grew from the com- paratively small figure of $800,000 to that of $4,000,- 000. In 1900 Mr. Stratton came to California to enter the oil business, and has been identified therewith ever since. With character- istic alertness and energy he threw himself into this new occupation, wherein he has achieved a notable suc- cess. The great possibili- ties of the Midway fields in Kern County appealed to him strongly, and he became one of the pioneer operators there. Shortly afterwards he organized the Midway Oil Company of Oregon, becoming owner also of the Stratton Water Company that supplies water for the Midway field. Seeming to develop "oil sense," he dis- covered the now famous Palmer Oil Field, which he brought to the attention of his associate, Frank L. Brown, and of which Charles E. Ladd of Portland is a director and one of the large stockholders. While in Oregon Mr. Stratton was a private in the Oregon militia for three years. His leanings are all financial and commercial. He is president and director of the Stratton A^'ater Co. and secretary and director of the Palmer Oil Co., Palmer Oil Jr. Co., San Juan Portland Cement Co., and the San Juan Pa- cific Ry. Co. He was formerly a member of the Arlington Club of Portland, Ore., and of the Cosmos Club of San Francisco. 228 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY Dor- and ENNANT, JOHN K., man- ager of the California Nation- al Life Insurance Company, was born in Alabama, De- cember 7, 1868. He is the son of Charles W. Tennant of that State and of Nancy J. (Daniel) Tennant. Mr. Ten- nant is of the same family stock as othy Tennant, the famous actress beauty. He married Miss Clara M. Lewis, by which marriage there is one son, John K. Tennant, Jr. Mr. Tennant received his common schooling in the institutions of the South and later attended Bowdon College, Bow- don, Georgia. At the age of twenty- one he started his busi- ness career by connecting himself with Sylvanas Miller, a contractor, in the building of the Ferro Carreal Del Norte Rail- road, which was being constructed at that time in Guatemala. This rail- roading system was be- ing builded from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City. Mr. Tennant served this company for four years as assistant pay- master. He returned to the United States in 1894 and entered the life insurance business, with which he has been more or less associated from that time to the present day, having started with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Louisville, Ken- tucky, now the Illinois Life Insurance Com- pany. He was connected with this firm for about seven years, his principal work being throughout the Southern States. At the time when the Mutual Life Insur- ance Company was absorbed by the Illinois Life Insurance Company, Mr. Tennant sev- ered his interests with the firm and left for Texas. This was in 190L He opened an insurance brokerage office in Dallas and later in Galveston, Texas, where he remained for about five years. His ability in the life insurance work had become wel! known throughout the Lone Star State, and in 1906 the Texas Life Insur- ance Company sought his services. He moved JOHN K. TENNANT to Waco, Texas, where he made his head- quarters for the Company, and from where he managed the States of Louisiana and Mis- sissippi. In January, 1909, he was given charge of the El Paso offices for the Texas Life Insur- ance Company, and acted in this capacity until July of the same year. At this time the great boom in Southern California, and particu- larly Los Angeles, had attracted his attention, and he saw a great field for insurance develop- ment. In July, 1909, he retired from the Texas company, sold his inter- ests in that state and moved to Los Angeles, where he remained for some months, but early in 1910 he removed to San Diego, California. Opportunities were there and he immediately set out to organize a new company. In June, 1910, shortly after his arrival in San Diego, he organized the National Life Insur- ance Company, with headquarters at San Diego. This company met with marked success and shortly after its or- ganization was changed to the California National Life Insurance Co., which name it now bears. Mr. Tennant is now the general manager of the company, and is doing much for its progress and development. He has been with it since its establishment and has prac- tically had the handling of it during its rapid development. His association with several of the leading insurance firms of the country has given him the knowledge necessary in the managing of such an organization. Besides his various interests in insur- ance, Mr. Tennant is the general manager of the Electro-Gas Motor Car Company of El Paso, Texas, and devotes considerable time to its welfare. Most of his present in- terests are in San Diego, where he has made his home since the early part of 1910. As a lodge man JMr. Tennant is a thirty- second degree Mason, a Shriner, and a memT ber of the B. P. O. E. He is active in frater- nal circles throughout Southern California. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 229 OEBIG, ADOLPH H., Con- sulting, Civil and Hydraulic Engineer, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, is a native of Prussia, having been born at Mottlash, in that country, on May 17, 1852. His father. Christian Callus Koebig, and his mother, Julia (Schmeltzer) Koebig, de- scended from a number of distinguished an- cestors. Mr. Koebig mar- ried Miss Maria Helene Kieffer on January 31, 1880, at Metz, Germany; four children have been born: Dr. W. C. Koebig, A. H. Koebig, Jr., C. E. Koebig and Kurt J. Koebig. Mr. Koebig availed himself of the best educa- tional facilities in his na- tive land ; he is a gradu- ate of the Royal Gym- nasium of Karlsruhe and of the Royal Engineering departments of the Uni- versities of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Berlin, graduating from Karls- ruhe in 1876. After his entrance into the activities of life, Mr. Koebig soon came to the United States and lived and practiced his profes- sion for a time in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, but in 1885 he went to California and made his home in Los Angeles and has since here re- mained. Mr. Koebig is now the senior member of the firm of Koebig & Koebig, consulting engineers; is a director of the Ramona Power and Irrigation Company, and is chief consulting engineer for the Chuckawalla De- velopment Company. After completing his studies in Germany, and serving in the military profession as an officer of the army, and securing his honor- able discharge, Mr. Koebig took up the study of engineering in earnest, having the natural bent in that direction of occupation. He soon entered the government service as an engineer in the department of water, munici- pal roadways and railways departments. He removed to this country in 1880, and was at once employed as assistant resident and locatingf engfineer in the service of a num- A. H. KOEBIG, SR. ber of important Eastern railway lines. It was in 1888 that Mr. Koebig began the practice of hydraulic engineering as a spe- cialized work, as he foresaw the immense de- velopment that must inure to that branch of science in this country ; he naturally made a particular study of irrigation and of hydro- static power in the West, and in Mexico he held the position of consulting and of chief engineer in a great num- ber of the most notable companies in that region, performing the prelimi- nary investigations, the planning, and the con- struction of a great many of the foremost enter- prises. He also took an active part as adviser and ex- pert in some of the most important litigations re- garding water works and resources that have taken place in the West. His retention as consulting engineer and adviser by a number of municipalities resulted in great public benefit. In 1909 Mr. Koebig associated himself with his son professionally, and formed the present firm of Koebig & Koebig, continuing the same lin6 of work that had made the father's reputation and which has brought the son into eminence. The firm of Koebig & Koebig is now employed in many of the great water devel- opment undertakings that are doing so much toward making the Southwestern empire the garden spot of the world. The firm is retained as consulting en- gineer for the Ramona Power and Irrigation Company, and for the Chuckawalla Develop- ment Company. This latter company, it is stated, is one of the largest irrigation com- panies with the most important works in the entire west. Mr. Koebig is an active member of the Engineers and Architects' Club of Los An- geles and of the Geographical Society. He is a member of the California and University clubs, of the Los Angeles Coun- try Club and the San Gabriel Country Club. 230 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OX, ROBERT LAMAR, Pres- ident, Guaranty Pipe 'Line Company, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born in the State of Texas, January 20, 1870. His father was James R. Cox and his mother Eliza B. Cox. Mr. Cox is a direct descendent of the famous General John S. Besser, and the Hamptons of Kentucky. On February 15, 1892, Mr. Cox married Miss Mattie J. Meek at Waco, Texas. There are two children, Robert L., Jr., and Thelma Cox. Mr. Cox spent the ear- ly years of his life in his native state, where he at- tended the public and pre- paratory schools. After finishing his preparatory schooling, he entered Baylor University at Waco, Texas. After completing his education, Mr. Cox start- ed out on his business career by entering the wholesale produce busi- ness in 1892. He became associated with the firm of C. H. Cox and Company, one of the largest whole- sale produce houses of Texas, having warehouses at Fort Worth, Waco, Temple and San Angelo. Mr. Cox was busily engaged in this business from 1892 to 1901, at which time he withdrew from the above corporation. At that time, April, 1901, the discovery of oil in Beaumont, Texas, was rousing men of all walks of life throughout the Lone Star State and Mr. Cox numbered among the many who immediately invested in this new industry. The oil craze had struck the state and the oil bearing lands, particularly in the Beaumont vicinity, were selling like wildfire. In April, 1901, he became actively engaged in the oil business in the Beaumont and Sour Lake fields along with many other investors and up to 1906, was one of the active men in that section of the state. R. L. COX He followed this work for about five years of Commerce. and in 1906, disposed of a greater part of his properties to return to the wholesale produce business. He returned to C. H. Cox and Company, and was associated with that firm for the following three years. In 1909 he moved to California and set- tled at Long Beach, where he lived through- out that year. In March, 1910, he became engaged in the oil business in California and has actively followed it since that time. He is today heavily interested in several local oil companies such as the Guaranty Oil Company and Guaranty Oil Building Company. Of the former firm, he is the General Manager and is President of the latter. He is likewise President of the Guaranty Pipe Line Company. One of his most recent projects was the comple- tion of a survey for a pipe line by which oil is to be transported from the Mid- way field, with Ventura, Los Angeles and San Pe- dro as its terminations. This line will be piped across the mountains to Ventura and then direct to its termination, extended over a territory of about one hundred and fifty miles. So broken will be the path of this line by the rugged country through which it will pass that six pumping stations will be necessary to carry the oil to tidewater. This corporation is capitalized at $5,000,- 000, and its list of stockholders number over three hundred and represent a dozen differ- ent states of the Union. Although interested in other concerns of no mean consequence, most of his time is occupied in directing the details of the Guar- anty Pipe Line Company. Mr. Cox is a member of the Elks Lodge and of the Gamut and Los Angeles Athletic Clubs of Los Angeles, and member Chamber NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 231 ARTIN, ALBERT C, Archi- tect and Engineer, Los An- geles, California, was born at La Salle, Illinois, September 16, 1879. He is the son of John Martin and Margaret (Carey) Martin. On October 15, 1907, he married at Oxnard, California, Carolyn Borchard. There are two children as a result of this marriage, Evelyn M. and Margaret M. Mar- tin. Mr. Martin's educa- tion was obtained mostly in Illinois. He attended St. Patrick's Parochial School in La Salle, Illi- nois, graduating in 1894. He then became a student of architecture and engin- eering at the University of Illinois, located at Champaign, Illinois, start- ing in 1897. Up to 1902, he studied constantly at that college, being grad- uated in June of that year with the B. S. degree in Architectural Engineer- ing. Shortly after graduat- ing from the University of Illinois, Mr. Martin be- came a draftsman for the Brown, Ketcham Iron Works of Indianapolis, Indiana. He continued with the company for more than a year and then resigned his posi- tion to enter another branch of his profession — that of testing steel and iron. Mr. Martin's next position was that of in- spector of steel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the mills and shops in and around Pittsburg. He was in this position for about a year and qualified as an expert. Having learned all about the manufacture of steel and iron in the great mills he next turned his at- tention to steel construction. Resigning his post with the railroad company, he joined the forces of the Cambria Steel Company, at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, now a branch of the United States Steel Corporation, and for several months he was a designer and esti- mator of steel construction. In the latter part of 1903, he left Pennsyl- vania and went to Los Angeles, California, arriving there January 6, 1904. This move A. C. MARTIN was prompted by the offer of a position umbus. which he accepted as Superintendent of Con- struction for Carl Leonardt and Company, one of the largest contracting firms in that section of the United States. He remained with the company for more than a year and during that time supervised the construction of some of the largest buildings put up in Los Angeles. Upon resigning from the Carl Leonardt Company, J\Ir. Martin be- came engineer of con- struction for A. F. Rosen- heim, architect, continu- ing with him over four years. In September, 1908, Mr. Martin resigned his position with that firm, and opened offices for himself as an architect and engineer. He has handled several of the larger buildings in Los Angeles arid has put up structures in most sec- tions of Southern Califor- nia. At the present time he is building the Court House of Ventura Coun- ty and an eight-story of- fice building at Vancouv- er, British Columbia. The Higgins Office Building, of Los Ange- les, is an excellent exam- ple of his work. Combining as he does the qualities of engineer, architect and struc- tural expert, Mr. Martin has taken a leading position in the ranks of his profession and is regarded as one of the most thorough men in his line in the country. He is sought in the planning and construction of large buildings in nearly every city in the West and at the present time has numerous large contracts in hand. Close application to detail and originality of design have won him the confidence of property owners, and his ideas are going far in building development of the Southwest. j\Ir. Martin is a member of the Architects and Engineers Society of Los Angeles, Southern California Chapter of A. I. A., As- sociate Member of the American Institute of Architects and of the Los Angeles Architec- tural Club. He is a member of the Newman Club of Los Angeles and is a Knight of Col- 232 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 'GARRY, MICHAEL JOS- EPH, Attorney at Law, Los ■ I Angeles, California was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 1872. His father was D. M. McGarry and his mother Margaret (Mc- Caughan) McGarry. He married Mary Eva- line Quinlan, May 13, 1898. Their children are Florence, Paul, Madeline and Evaline. Mr. McGarrjr spent his childhood in Chicago, where his father was a large coal operator. Later the elder McGarry be- came a conspicuous fig- ure in the life of Los An- geles. He was active in politics and served two terms in the City Council, during which time nu- merous measures for the improvement of the city were put into effect. He also was a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, an organiza- tion of civic upbuilders, and was on the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Los Angeles. Mr. McGarry's educa- tion was a careful one, covering a period of many years, and obtained on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. He began in the All Saints School of Chicago, but his parents deciding to go west he was compelled when a lad of nine, to halt his studies. His family settled in Los Angeles in 1881 and there the boy was placed in St. Vincent's College, one of the leading educational institutions of the west. He studied there for several years, in preparation for college and then went to Ire- land, where he became a student at the Clon- gowes Wood College, County Kildare. In 1890 he returned to the United States and enrolled in Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana. There he remained until 1894, when he received the degree LL. B. In 1911, he received the A. M. degree from St. Vincent's College. Mr. McGarry was admitted to the Bar at South Bend, Indiana, in the same month of his graduation from Notre Dame Univer- sity and to the California Bar, October 9, of the same year. He began practice at M. J. McGARRY Los Angeles where he has continued since. He has always been a staunch Democrat in politics and has played a prominent part in numerous campaigns in Los Angeles He has served twice as a member of the Park Commission of Los Angeles and once as a member of the Fire Board. His first terra as a member of the Park Commission was under Mayor Snyder and later he acted under Mayor McAleer. While he was on the Park Com- mission, numerous im- provements were made in the park system of the city, Mr. McGarry having proposed and pushed through to completion the installation of city wa- ter in the South Park District. As a fire com- missioner Mr. McGarry instigated many reforms and helped others to adoption, with the result that Los Angeles toJay is freer from fire than any other city of its size in the United States. Mr. INIcGarry still is active in politics in Los Angeles, and has alw;i.ys been an advocate of qrood government in city and state. Mr. McGarry has pur- sued a general legal prac- tice and has scored many ]\Iost of his work has He has notable successes been in Los Angeles and vicinity, also been an active factor in real estate devel- opment and is president of the McGarry Realty Company of Los Angeles. He is a man of strong personality; an as- siduous scholar, fond of good literature and is an authority on Shakespeare. He is a deep student of history. He is prominently identified with many of the larger clubs and legal organizations of Southern California, and is an active lodge man. He is a charter member of the New- man Club, belongs to the Chamber of Com- merce and was Past Exalted Ruler of the B. P. O. Elks, No. 99, Los Angeles. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and at one time was its Lecturer; was twice State President of the Ancient Order of Hibern- ians, of the State of California, and is a mem- ber of the County and State Bar Associations. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 233 5 Mi m E% 'CORMICK, ERNEST OLI- VER, Vice President of the Southern Pacific Company, in charge of traffic, San Francis- co, was born at Lafayette, In- diana, April 3, 1858, the son of O. H. P. Mc- Cormick and Marie Louise (De Vault) Mc- Cormick. In 1899 he came from Cincinnati to San Francisco to take the position of pas- senger traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Com- pany. He was married in 1897 at Cincinnati to Miss Lily Henry and is the father of Louise McCor- mick (now Mrs. Robert B. Henderson), Ernest Oliver McCormick, Jr., and Mary Kilgore and Margaret Duer McCormick (twins). He obtained his school- room education in the pub- lic schools of Lafayette, Indiana. In 1879 Mr. McCormick began his eventful and pro- gressive railway career, as a time-keeper in the con- struction department of the Lake Erie & Western Rail- road. After serving in this capacity, as well as in oth- er positions, he was pro- moted to the post of Gen- eral Agent of the Freight Department of the Louis- ville, New Albany and Chi- cago Railway at Lafayette, Indiana. His next move upward was to the position of General Agent of the Great Eastern freight line at Louisville, Kentucky. Subsequently he went over to the Passenger Department of railroad- ing, and became City Passenger Agent of the Monon Route, at Louisville and Chicago. It was during his connection with this road that he began to reaHze his colonization ideas which have since proved so beneficial to the com- munities in which he operated. Fully appre- ciating the importance, both from the view- point of the railroad and from that of general business of increasing the desirable popula- tion of sparsely settled districts, he was chiefly instrumental in establishing the Ocala and oth- er colonies in Florida. In 1889 Mr. McCormick was made General Passenger and Ticket Agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, a post he re- tained until 1894, when he became Passenger E. O. McCORMICK Traffic Manager of the Big Four Railroad, with headquarters at Cincinnati. Five years later he moved to California to become Pas- senger Traffic Manager of the Southern Pa- cific Company, at San Francisco. On March I, 1904, he was appointed Assistant Director of Traffic for the Union Pacific and the South- ern Pacific lines; and in May, 1910, he be- came Vice President of the Southern Pacific Company and related lines, in charge of traffic from Portland, Oregon, to El Paso, Texas. During this active career Mr. McCormick has seized his opportunities to develop what has become almost a hobby with him, v i z., colonization. Few men, if any, have been individ- ually responsible for the growth of more communi- ties than has E. O. McCor- mick. He not only had much to do with the or- ganization of colonization rates from the East to Cali- fornia, in 1 90 1, but he has also helped materially to bring many important con- ventions to the West. Among his many projects in this and alHed directions may be mentioned the pos- tal card mailing day for California, the "Raisin Day" propaganda and oth- er similar enterprises. Together with his associates he is now de- voting much attention to the problem of pro- viding the best possible facilities for the thou- sands of visitors who, it is expected, will be attracted to San Francisco by the Panama- Pacific International Exposition to be held in 1915. Beyond his railroad connections he is vice president of the American Association of Re- frigeration, ex-president Association of Gen- eral Passenger and Ticket Agents, and a member of the Chicago Association of Com- merce, Home Industry League of California, Merchants' Exchange of San Francisco, and the American Freight Traffic Gulf Associa- tion. Among his clubs are the Pacific-Union, Bohemian, Army and Navy, of San Francisco; Burlingame Country, of Burlingame , San Mateo County, California ; Chicago Club, and the Union League, of Chicago, 234 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY AYNES, LLOYD C, Mining, Kl Los Angeles, California, was r\ born in Canaseraga, Alle- ghany County, New York, May 20, 1862. the son of Henry D. Haynes and Helen M. (Whitney) Haynes. He married Dora L. Mayer at Olean, New York, November 19, 1890, and they are the parents of one child, H. Lewis Haynes. Mr. Haynes attended the public schools of his native town until he was about fifteen years of age, and in 1877 left his books to enter the business world. He first started in a merchandise broker- age business, covering every section of New York State. This he con- ducted with profit until 1881, when, at the age of nineteen years, he deter- mined to cast his fortunes with the men in the Pennsylvania oil fields. From that time until the present his life has been one of unceasing activ- ity. He located at Brad- ford, Pennsylvania, and there for four years was in the thick of the oil business. He put down numerous wells and also engaged in speculation on the side. He reaped a small fortune out of this work, and in 1885 determined to quit the oil business for other lines. After closing his oil and land deals, Mr. Haynes determined to go into merchant tailoring on a large scale, and in partnership with F. R. Ackerman, of Olean, New York, he organized a chain of stores in New York State, Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1891 he bought out his partner's inter- est and for the next seven years conducted the business by himself. In February, 1898, Mr. Haynes joined the rush to the Alaskan gold fields and lo- cated at Sunrise City. He worked a claim there for about nine months and then moved to Pass Creek, where he mined for one year. LLOYD C. HAYNES with a gratifying degree of success. At the end of twelve months on Pass Creek Mr. Haynes left the North and re- turned to New York City. He retained his Alaskan holdings for another year, and then disposed of them in order to engage in the bond business in New York. He established a branch office in Los Angeles in 1906, and in 1911 decided to make his home in that city. When he first went to Los Angeles in 1906, and established offices, he di- vided his time between there and New York, and at the same time he held several bank- ing offices in South- ern California. When he settled there permanent- ly, however, he found that his private interests did not permit of him giving much time to banking, so he resigned his offices, and now de- votes his time entirely to his own enterprises. Mr. Haynes is a large stockholder in the Beav- er Gold Dredging Com- pany, located in Placer County, California. About a year ago, because of his financial ability and his heavy interests in the com- pany, he was elected treasurer of it and still holds that office. Another enterprise in which Mr. Haynes is an important factor is the Modoc County Irrigation Co. This concern has exten- sive land holdings in Modoc County, and Mr. Haynes is one of the leading stockholders. This, like his other businesses, takes up a great deal of his time. Mr. Haynes has reached that point in life where he feels that he has had his share of activity and he is now about to retire. He is gradually arranging his affairs so that he may retire to the enjoyment of life and the fruits of his many years of labor. He is a member of the Sierra Madre Club and the McAleer Gun Club, both Los An- geles organizations. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 235 COTT, HENRY T., San Fran- cisco, Cal., President of the Pacific Telephone and Tele- graph Company and execu- tive officer of various inter- ests, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1846, the son of John Scott (a Quaker preacher and a strong supporter of the Union) and Elizabeth (Lettig) Scott. His paternal ancestors were among the earliest resi- dents of Maryland, and the Scott home, now oc- cupied by Mr. Scott's sister, was deeded to the family by Lord Balti- more. In 1867 Mr. Scott came to California, where he has achieved a notable position and success. He was married to Miss El- sie Horsley of England, and is the father of W. Prescott, Harry H. and Mary Scott (now Mrs. Walter Martin). Henry T. Scott ob- tained his education in the public schools and at Lamb's Academy, in Baltimore, Md., coming to California shortly after leaving the latter institu- tion. Not long after his arri- val in San Francisco he secured employment, as time-keeper, in the Union Iron Works, which at that time, though a comparatively small concern, was the leading corporation of its kind on the Pacific Coast. Here, by zealous devotion to his duties, as well as by sheer ability, he rose rapidly, filling various re- sponsible positions and finally, together with his brother, Irving M. Scott, becoming an indispensible part of the corporation. The Scotts, indeed, came to be regarded as the chief part, if not the whole institution. When, in 1883, it was organized as an incorporated company, Henry T. Scott was made the First Vice President of the Union Iron Works. Two years later he became President, an oiifice he filled with distinction up to the time the corporation changed hands. During the Scotts' control of the Union Iron Works the establishment was developed from a comparatively unimportant local con- HENRY T. SCOTT cern to one of world-wide reputation, chiefly cific-Union Club. as a builder of battleships and cruisers for the United States Navy. The Oregon, the Charleston and the San Francisco were among their first notable achievements in this line — vessels that always a little more than "came up to specifications." The Ore- gon, in fact, bids fair to become historical in more than one respect, for a movement is now on foot to have it lead the naval proces- sion through the Panama Canal, in celebration of the opening of that water- way. Mr. Scott's interests have now branched into a wide and varied field of activity, earning him the title among his associates of the financial "Pooh Bah." He is, perhaps, best known just now as President of the Pacific Telegraph and Telephone Company, which operates in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada and the western part of Idaho. This company has the largest single system of any telephone company in the United States, as well as the most extensive long distance lines and the greatest number of exchange plants. Its cap- italization is $50,000,000, and its subscriptions have reached a higher figure than those of any other company of its kind. It is still rapidly expanding. He helped organize the Panama-Pacific In- ternational Exposition Co., and was one of the most active workers on the committee that made the fight in Washington for San Francisco. He is a member of the Board of Education. • Besides his presidency of the Pacific Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, Mr. Scott is President of the Mercantile National Bank, Burlingame Land and Water Company, St. Francis Hotel Company, Columbia Theater Building Company, Director Crocker Na- tional Bank, Bank of Burlingame, Crocker Estate Company, Crocker Realty Company, Crocker Hotel Company, Moore & Scott Iron Works and the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is also a member of the Pa- 236 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ONES, HON. JOHN PERCIVAL, Santa Monica, California, capi- talist and ex-Senator of the United States, was born at The Hay by the River Wye, Hereford- shire, England, close to the Welsh border, January 27, 1829, the son of Thomas Jones and Mary (Pugh) Jones. He married Hannah Cor- nelia Greathouse, widow of George Greathouse, in 1861, and they had one son, Roy. His first wife died in 1871 and he married Georgina Prances Sulli- van in 1875, and to them there were born three daughters, Alice, Marion and Georgina. The Jones family came to America when the fu- ture Senator was only two years old and settled at Cleveland, Ohio, then a town of only a few thou- sand inhabitants and known as the heart of the Western Reserve. He attended the public schools of Cleveland, and after graduating from the high school attended a private school for some time, then went to work for a shipping firm, and later obtained employment in a local bank. In 1849, when young Jones was just twenty years of age, came the discovery of gold in Califor- nia. The hard times following the Mexican War had produced great restlessness and discontent throughout the country, so that the tales of fabu- lous wealth to be found in California brought about the most spectacular migratory rush in the annals of the world. A number of the most adventurous young men of Cleveland, of whom Jones was one, organized a party and chartered the small bark, Eureka, of less than 160 tons displacement, and on September 26, 1849, set sail for the coast of California. They went through the new Welland Canal, which was so narrow that it was necessary to trim down the sides of the bark in order that she might pass through, on down the St. Lawrence and then along two continents and around Cape Horn. The little vessel was scarcely seaworthy when she started, but in spite of numerous adventures she made the trip in safety, and in April, 1850, after a voyage occupying nearly nine months, sailed into the harbor of San Francisco. Of all the ship's company including the crew. Senator Jones is now the only survivor. After landing in California, he remained in San Francisco for a while, but before long pro- ceeded to the gold fields of Trinity County and washed gold from the sands of its streams. Some- times he worked in the employ of others, but most of the time he was mining for himself. As with most of the early pioneers, small fortunes came and went, and throughout the vicissitudes of the search he managed to prove one fact of great value — that he possessed boldness of character and utter fearlessness of all conse- quences. He fought a good fight with fate, and he had to be ready to fight good men. He looked death in the face frequently enough in his contact with the reckless characters that peopled the goldflelds, and he did it so unflinchingly that he was elected to that greatest of all offices of the early West, the one that carried with it the highest tribute to character, the office of Sheriff. He held the office successfully and good men respected, while bad men feared him. He was long remembered by the latter class in California. He took his dangerous post in the late fifties and held it until 1863. In 1863 he was elected to represent Shasta and Trinity Counties in the California State Senate, and was fairly started on a political career that continued almost without interruption for a period of more than forty years. He represented the two counties as State Senator until 1867, when he was nominated Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket. The ticket was defeated, but his nomina- tion indicated that he had become a man of power in the State. Senator Jones had in reality two parallel careers — one in politics and the other in finance. In both he was more than ordinarily successful. Each was in a measure responsible for the other, because his success in business and investment recommended him to public office, and his clear-headedness in politics won the confidence of the men of business. He left California In the year 1868, just after his defeat for the lieutenant governorship, and went to Virginia City, Nevada, the scene of the magic Comstock Lode, easily the most wonder- ful treasury of wealth the world has yet unearthed and which made millionaires in great numbers. He went as superintendent of the Crown Point mines, of which he was a part owner. The game of politics was in his blood. He had no sooner arrived at Virginia City than he began to play it with the same energy as in California. Nevada was really a California overflow. He knew all of the men of consequence personally and all of them knew the former Sheriff of Trinity county. In less than three years' time he was candidate for the greatest office Nevada had to give, the United States Senatorship. His force, popularity and gen- eralship swept aside opposition and won him the election in 1872. He became known as Nevada's perpetual Sena- tor. He held the honor for thirty years, or five terms. At every election he won easily. He gave Nevada an influence in the affairs of the United States out of all proportion to the importance of the State at that time. This pleased the people of Nevada and they kept him at Washington as long as he chose to stay. He never failed to give his support to any measure that promised good to the West, and particularly to his own State. Nevada got fully its share of appropriations, and with Senator Jones on the watch no measure that would hurt the Pacific States got through without a fight. He managed to get the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home for Southern California, although to persuade Con- NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 237 HON. JOHN P. JONES 238 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY gress he and his partner, Colonel R. S. Baker, donated three hundred acres of its site. For this he has the gratitude ot thousands of old soldiers, because there, in that almost ideal climate, the veterans of the Civil War can have their lives prolonged a decade of years, and live in a comfort impossible in the wintry East. He led a successful fight for the exclusion of the Chinese, and thereby saved the western half of the continent to the white man. He has not always received the credit he deserves for this fight, as it is the opinion of many that without his efforts the Chinese would never have been ex- cluded. He himself believes that one of his most im- portant actions, and one most far reaching in its effect, was his earnest opposition to the Force Bill. This bill provided for the employment of the Federal army in the elections of the South to com- pel the Southerners not to interfere with the col- ored voters. Feeling ran high at the time, but now everybody realizes that the passage of such a bill would have precipitated another Civil War. He was a consistent supporter of fiat money, ac- cepting bimetalism as the best available comprom- ise obtainable at the time, but basing his conten- tions upon the principles of a scientific currency dependent upon the quantitative theory of money. He is known as one of the most astute financiers in the United States and for many years has been con- sidered an authority on such matters. Because of his thorough understanding of the money question, the Senate, in 1876, appointed him a member of the Silver Commission, of which he was made chairman, and he later prepared a re- port for the commission, which was a fundamental treatise on money. In recognition of his knowledge of the subject. President Harrison in 1892 named him a delegate to the International Monetary Con- ference at Brussels. While preparing for his work at this conference the Senator went over the ground so thoroughly that his gold-silver report was characterized as the most conclusive documentary presentation of the facts that our nation has seen. At the final confer- ence at Brussels, the Senator's argument con- sumed two days, and when printed reached the astonishing length of 200,00(3 words. This achieve- ment stamped Senator Jones as one of our leading financial thinkers, as well as one of the greatest statistical authorities the country has known in public life. The Senator's mind is and always has been, from early years, a storehouse of statistical information, and he has the unusual faculty of mak- ing columns of figures and tables tell a story as fascinating as a novel. His leading speech on money, delivered in the Senate, made a large volume and was a fundamen- tal treatise of the science of money. It is perhaps the most complete history and exposition of the quantitative theory which has ever been written. But one of the greatest services of his pubUc life was his investigation and presentation of the principles of protection. In 1890 he delivered in the Senate a treatise on the subject in a speech en- titled, "Shall the Republic do its own work?" which was so convincing and fundamental that more than a million copies were reprinted by the National Republican Committee and by the American Pro- tective Tariff League and circulated throughout the United States. The personality of Senator Jones is one of the traditions of the United States Senate. He is a man of powerful physique and has kept his strength well into the eighties. His known fearlessness, the piercing quality of his eye and his naturally dominating appearance is also unusual, and few men are armed with such keenness ot logic and such a wealth of facts. He was always a convincing debater, and, al- though he made no pretensions to oratory, he had a beautiful speaking voice and was a master of English. He was a political tactician of the high est order and his opponents dreaded his resource- fulness. He is known to all his friends as a great wit and story teller and his most serious speeches are interspersed with illustrations so apt that they grip the mind more powerfully than a column of argu- ment. He used to sit for hours in the cloak room of the Senate surrounded by a group of his col- leagues, telling anecdotes and discussing questions of the hour. It was thus that he acquired the per- sonal influence which gave him so much power. At the time of his election to the Senate he had made a great fortune in mining, and during his long career he has always been associated with the mining development, not only of California and Nevada, but ot Alaska, Mexico and Colorado. He was one of the original company which opened the great Treadwell Mine, near Juneau, Alaska. In addition to his mining interests he has in- vested largely in real estate, and still owns several large ranches. In 1875 he laid out the town of Santa Monica, on the San Vicente Rancho, which he owned in partnership with Col. R. S. Baker. He built the first railroad from Los Angeles to Santa Monica, intending to continue it to Independence. Subse- quently this road was sold to the Southern Pacific. He has now disposed of most of his interests around Santa Monica, but still lives in the old homestead there which the family has occupied for the past twenty years. He has belonged to innumerable clubs in Ne- vada, San Francisco, New York, Washington and Los Angeles and retains his membership in several of them. Although January 27, 1912, was his eighty-third birthday, he is still an active man, taking a keen interest in the affairs of the world. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 239 ROST, CHARLES HENRY, Manufacturer, Los Angeles, California, was born at Ithaca, New York, June 9, 1844. His father was George Pepperell Frost and his mother Eliza Little (Benja- min) Frost. He married Helen L Sherman, November 19, 1869, at Davenport, Iowa, and to them were born two children, Lida E. (Mrs. L. J. Huff) and Howard Frost. Mr. Frost is a descend- ant of one of George Washington's most val- iant soldiers, his grand- father. Captain George Pepperell Frost, having served with him through- out the Revolutionary period, in most of the big battles which led, ulti- mately, to the freedom of the United States. He received his pri- mary education in the public and private schools of Ithaca, N. Y., and Chi- cago, Illinois, having at- tended the Ithaca Acad- emy at the former place. He finished his studies at Baker's High School, Quincy, Illinois. He attended school up to the year 1862, when, upon President Lincoln's second call for volunteers, he deserted his school books to join the Union army. He was beneath the legal age limit and his father refused to permit him to enlist as a fighting man, so he went into the commissary department of the government as a citizen employe, with headquarters at Chicago. He remained in that capacity for two years, when he was transferred to the quartermaster's department at Cincinnati, Ohio, being promoted to the post of cashier. Here he remained two years more, and in 1866 he resigned to go with the Home Mu- tual Life Insurance Co. of Cincinnati. He was connected with the company for three years, the latter part of which period he was secretary. In 1868 he resigned his position with this company to join the United States Life Insurance Company of New York as manager of its Western department. With this corporation he remained until 1877. In 1877 Mr. Frost organized a pressed CHARLES H. FROST brick company at Chicago, capitalized at $500,000, and has remained in that business down to date. He was made general man- ager of this original company and for nearly ten years directed the working of it. The company was a success from the beginning and at the end of nine years Mr. Frost had amassed an independent fortune. At that time he sold his interests and de- cided to move West, set- tling at Pasadena, Cali- fornia. He determined to re-enter business and in 1887 organized the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Co., with himself as pres- ident and general mana- ger. The company built a large plant at Los An- geles and in the twenty- four years that have elapsed since its organiza- tion has grown to be one of the most important in- dustrial institutions in the West. It has a capital stock of $500,000, and a partial list of the stock- holders associated with Mr. Frost includes some of the most successful men in Southern Califor- nia. A few of his asso- ciates in this company follow : H. E. Huntington, W. G. Kerckhofif, I. N. Van Nuys, William H. Allen, J. E. Fishburn, J. M. Elliott, W. C. Patterson, West Hughes, W. D. Woolwine, J. Ross Clark, O. T. John- son, J. M. C. Marble, Dan Murphy and How- ard Frost. In addition to the main plant at Los An- geles, the company operates two other large factories, one at Santa Monica, California, and another at Point Richmond, California, all under the general direction of Mr. Frost. He has extended the business of his company from British Columbia to Old Mexico. Mr. Frost has been an active figure in the upbuilding of Los Angeles and is considered one of the most progressive men in that city. He is a member of the Jonathan Club, and during his residence in Chicago was a mem- ber of the Union League and Illinois clubs. He also held membership in the Building Trade Club of New York. He is a thirty-sec- ond degree Mason. 240 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY CAN, DAVID CHAMBERS, Invent- M** or, owner McCan Mechanical I Works, Los Angeles, California, was born at New Orleans, Louisi- ana, July 9, 1884. His father was Charles Patterson McCan and his mother Mary G. (Tobin) McCan. He married Mrs. George H. Yenowine, a daughter of H. N. Smith, of Wisconsin, March, 1904. Mrs. McCan Is one of the most prominent club women in Southern California and has played a leading part in the great progress and up- building of the club circles of Los Angeles and Southern California. She has been for two years president of the Southern California Woman's Press Club, is president of the Friday Morning Club, chairman of the Miscellane- ous Collection of the Fine Arts League and chairman of publicity of the Political Equality League of Los An- geles. Mr. McCan began his edu- cation in New Orleans, but at an early age moved to Eu- rope, where he was reared. He obtained his education in private schools and colleges of England, France and Ger- many. Up to the time of his manhood he traveled exten- sivley, visiting practically all of the leading countries of Europe, during which he mas- tered several languages. He spent a number of years touring Japan, China, Ceylon, India, Egypt and the United States. Upon his return to America Mr. McCan went into the foundry and machine business. He contin- ued in that for several years and at an early age was regarded as one of the most scientific foun- ders in the United States. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather had been in the foundry and machine business, and his ability was a natural inheritance. In 1905 he went to Los Angeles, California, to go into business for himself, establishing the McCan Mechanical Works, of which he is sole owner. His plant, 450 feet long by 75 feet wide, built for the manufacture of modern mechanical apparatus, consists of a pattern shop, iron and brass foundries and a machine shop, equipped with special machines, of which there are more than twenty different types. Castings up to four- teen feet in diameter can be handled. The notable examples of his work are the ob- server's platform for the Mount Wilson telescope camera, the plates and ball-races for the spectro- heliograph apparatus, and the 8%-foot mill to be used in grinding the "Hooker Lens" for the Car- negie Institute of Washington, D. C. He has han- dled some of the most delicate and scientifically accurate work in the world, and contracts for the largest corporations and companies of the West; also the United States War Department and City of Los Angeles. Mr. McCan's career has been productive of a number of useful inventions which are of infinite value to the manufacturing world. Al- though still a young man, he has won international repu- tation as an inventor, and is regarded as one of the most scientific men in the mechan- ical business today. While he was in the foundry busi- ness he originated a number of valuable devices, but his most important work in this line was the Invention of the McCan Wood Shaving Com- pressor, a machine which promises to revolutionize the wood fuel industry of the United States and which was evolved after four years of experimentation. It is estimated that the United States has lost over $500,000,000 during the last forty years through an ina- bility to utilize all the wood shavings and sawdust of sawmills and planing mills. Mr. McCan proposes to make by his invention wood for fuel purposes by com- pressing this waste into blocks. To this end he built in his plant an entire equipment rated firstly, to filter the wood shavings and sawdust from any foreign material; secondly, to measure each charge as a complete block, and, thirdly, a machine which in one revolution makes a block and ejects it In a conveyor leading into sacks. No binder, chemical or foreign substance, is used other than the way the material is compressed and the pressure em- ployed, which is 20,000 pounds to the square inch. Blocks made of sawdust as fine as flour, when fin- ished, are as hard as lignum-vltae. They may be sawed in two or more pieces and the parts will re- main solid. Mr. McCan has done some literary work along purely scientific lines, and in addition to this has been a well-known writer of verse and editorials for a number of years. He Is a member of the California Club and is known in other professional organizations and orders. He is always ready to aid any movement for the betterment of his city. McCAN NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 241 ELLAR, HARRY, Magi- cian (Retired), Los Angeles, California, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1849, the son of Francis P. Kellar. He married Eva Medley, of Melbourne, Aus- tralia, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 1, 1887. Mr. Kellar spent his early days in Erie and Ohio, and his education was ob- tained in both places. He graduated from the Painesville, Ohio, school and immediately went into the theatrical busi- ness, for which he had shown remarkable lean- ings all during his boy- hood. His first engagement was with a magician known as the "Fakir of Ava," and a year as as- sistant to this noted illu- sionist implanted in him an ambition to become a magician himself. From that time until he retired, a few years ago, acknowl- edged by press and pub- lic the greatest living ma- gician, Kellar applied himself to the mastery of his art. His brain and his hand were as one. He mystified, confound- ed and charmed his audi- tors, and even today his creations resist solution. In 1867 he became business manager for Davenport Brothers, spirit mediums, and with them made the first of a life of great tours. The company traveled in practically every part of the United States, and during that time the fu- ture great Kellar learned a lot of the world. He was with that combination approximate- ly four years, and then joined Fay, under the name of Fay and Kellar. The pair toured Mexico and South America between 1871 and 1873, and during that time Kellar laid the foundation of a fame that was to last for all time in the world of magic. Upon separating from Fay, Mr. Kellar organized a company consisting of himself and two Oriental magicians under the title of Kellar, Ling Look and Yamadeva, Royal Illusionists. These three played in many foreign lands, their tour taking them through South America, Africa, Australia, India, HARRY KELLAR China, Philippine Islands and Japan. They were a sensation wherever they appeared, but the tour was ended in China, where Ling Look and Yamadeva died, in 1877. Kellar's next alliance was with J. H. Cunard, under the name of Kellar and Cu- nard, and for the next five years they trav- eled together, showing in many lands where magic was part of the religion and history of the peoples. This tour took them through India, Burmah, Siam, Java, Per- sia, Asia Minor, Egypt and numerous Mediterra- -nean ports. In 1884 the partners separated and f£l^ Kellar returned to his na- ^^, five America, a leader in ' his art and famous in the four corners of the globe. Kellar's career on the stage fills a chapter in the realm of magic that is surpassed by none. En- dowed with a remarkably original mind, nimble hands and a faculty for magic, he brought his art up to a point in which cleverness and refinement intermingled, while his illusions mystified. For nearly a quarter of a cen- tury he was continually before the American pub- lic and during that time millions of people saw him. He evolved numerous pieces of magic that defied imitation or solution, and when he retired from the stage only his successor, to whom he turned over his secrets, knew how he had accomplished them. At various times he had trouble with would-be imitators and often figured in mat- ters that, to his highly sensitive and refined mentality, were distasteful. When he retired, however, it was with the affection of millions of persons who had been charmed and edified by his efforts. Upon leaving the stage Mr. Kellar settled in Los Angeles, and there he lives surrounded by an atmosphere of refine- ment and pleasant recollections. During his life he accumulated a handsome fortune, and of this he gives liberally in unostentatious philanthropy. He is a man of marked intel- lectual accomplishments and finds his recrea- tion in those fields which appeal to the scholar. 242 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY POLLOCK, WIL- LIAM SMITH, Bfenking, Los Angeles, California, was born September 12, 1864, at Santa Clara, California, the son of Andrew McClure Pol- lock and of Mary Chris- tina (Meyers) Pollock. He married Mary Louise Saupe, October 12, 1886, at Los An- geles. Mr. Pollock was ed- ucated at the public schools of Santa Clara until eight years old, and then at the Santa Clara College. He was freight handler at Santa Clara for the old narrow gauge line, the South Pacific Coast. He was agent for one year of the "Examiner," then a San Francisco evening paper, and telegraph operator and ticket agent for the Central Pacific Railway. From 1883 to 1906 he was with the Southern Pacific Company as telegraph operator, ticket agent and freight agent at various places. He was sent to Los Angeles in 1885 and was the agent for the company in the city until 1906. This was his most important railway position. Then he was manager of the Auto Despatch Com- pany of that city until he accepted a position with the Security Bank of Los Angeles, remaining with them three years, when his present position of cashier of the International and Exchange Bank was offered and accepted. DROMGOLD, REU- BEN WISOR, Real Bs- state, Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia, was born in Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1855. He is the son of Manasseh Dromgold and Sarah (Loy) Drom- gold. He married Nellie M. Squire at Los An- geles, January 1, 1890. They have one son, George C. Di'omgold. He was educated in the schools of his na- tive county. He became a school teacher. Later he learned the trade of sign painter and deco- rator. In 1880 he went to Missouri, stayed two years, went to Colorado for one year, and in 1883 he moved to Los Angeles, where he took up paint- ing and contracting, the paint and oil business and real estate. He branched out into the sign business in the year 1890 and soon built up one of the largest establishments in the West. He was nominated and elected to the City Coun- cil of Los Angeles, serving from 1907 to 1910. He fathered the plan for the monumental bridge and viaduct on North Broadway and backed all public improvements. In the year 1910 he took up the real estate busi- ness again. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic Shriner, Elk, member Los Angeles Chamber ot Commerce, and Los Angeles Pioneer Society. MILLSPAUGH, JESSE FONDA, Presi- dent of the State Nor- mal School, Los An- geles, California, was born June, 1855, at Bat- tle Creek, Michigan, son ot Jacob and Mary Ann (Decker) Mills- paugh. He married Mary Clark Parsons August, 1886, at Salt Lake City. There are two children, Winne- fred and Helen. He has his B. A. and M. A. from the Univer- sity of Michigan. Was for two years principal of the Frankfort (In- diana) High School. Studied medicine, and in 1883 obtained his M. D. from the University of Penn- sylvania. Was principal of the Salt Lake Collegiate Insti- tute and later its superintendent. In 1890 he was appointed superintendent of schools of Salt Lake City, whose public school system he, as its first superintendent, organized and developed. In 1899 he accepted the presidency of the Winona (Minne- sota) State Normal School, and in 1904, that of the California State Normal School, at Los Angeles. He is a member of the University Club, the Delta Upsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa, of the State Board of Education, the National Council ot Edu- cation and the National Educational Association, and is the author of numerous papers and addresses on educational subjects. ENGSTRUM, PAUL, Superintendent C o n - struction, F. O. Eng- strum Company, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at San Diego, Cal., November 24, 1886. He is the son of P. O. Engstrum and Elizabeth Caroline Engstrum. He re- ceived his elementary education at the West- ern Military Academy of Illinois, graduating from there in 1903. He then began technical study under private tu- tors, with particular attention to engineer- ing, and in 1907 was a qualified engineer of con- struction. On leaving his studies he returned to Los An- geles, where he went to work with his father, one of the leading contractors and construction men in that city. He served in various capacities for a time and later was made superintendent of con- struction for the company, being in charge of all the big work of that concern. He is also superin- tendent of the Concrete Appliance Company, a sub- sidiary of the Engstrum Company. As a structural engineer, Mr. Engstrum has assisted in putting up numerous buildings in Los Angeles, among them the Los Angeles County Hospital, Exposition Build- ing at Exposition Park, Los Angeles; Long Beach, Cal., Edison Plant, and others. He is a member of the Union League Club of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 243 COWARD, HER- BERT CAMPBELL, General Manager of the California Salt Co., San Francisco, Califor- nia, was born in Oak- land, California, No- vember 24, 1870. Both his father, Hamilton Graham Coward, and his mother, Mary (Leas) Coward, were Marylanders and de- scended from Revolu- tionary stock, original- ly English. He mar- ried in Oakland, Janu- ary, 1909, Miss Eloise Terol, and is the father of two daughters, Net- tie and Phyllis Coward. Mr. Coward's schooling was scant, consisting in all of three years, from 1879 to 1882, in the grammar school of Oakland. He first worked in the hardware store of George S. Browne, at Oakland. He saved money and bought an interest with his brother, M. G. Coward, in the Sausalito News, and worked in the engineer- ing department of the State Harbor Commission. In 1891 he started in the salt business in a small way in Oakland. In October, 1910, he incorporated the Continen- tal Salt and Chemical Company in Alameda County, and on the absorption of this concern by the Salt Trust, thirty days later, withdrew and formed the California Salt Company. This company supplies the markets along the coast of California, Wash- ington, Oregon, Alaska and in the Hawaiian Islands. RIGGINS, PHILIP B., Physician, Los Angeles, California, was born January 27, 1877, at Sheffield, Iowa, the son of Paden B. RIggins and Lydia (Loomis) Rig- gins. He married Kath- ryn Nisbet September 17, 1898, at Atlanta, Georgia. There are two children, Philip Byron and Prentice Lanier Riggins. He received his pri- mary education at the Sheffield schools. Re- moving to Santa Moni- ca, in 1893, he gradu- ated from, the high schools of that city the same year. He attended Stanford University and graduated from the legal department in the year 1897. He went to Atlanta, Georgia, for a time and there married. He then went to Los Angeles in 1902, and, choosing medicine as his profession, at- tended the University of California School of Medi- cine until he received his qualifying degree in 1907. He at once began practice. He is at the present time chief surgeon of the large firm of Shattuck- Edinger, Railroad Contractors, and assistant sur- geon of the Pacific Electric Railway, the Los An- geles Railway, the Pacific Light and Power Com- pany and Fairchilds-Gilmore-Wilton Company. To all of these firms he is of special value be- cause of his legal knowledge. He belongs to the better known clubs of his city. DURDAN, HARRY PATTERSON, Steam- ship Agent, Los An- geles, California, was born in Hamilton, On- tario, Canada, Febru- ary 2, 1871, the son of William Durdan and Isabella (Hall) Durdan. He was educated in the common schools and Collegiate Institute of his home city. After leaving school he engaged in the transportation b u s i - ness and entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway, later the Canadian Pacific Railway and afterward the Hill railroads, serving in various capacities until he resigned and went into the steamship business in New York City. He has been in that line ever since. At one time he represented in New York six different steamship companies running to the Far East — China, Japan, Philippines, etc. — and early in 1910 went with the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. He was made Southern California agent for the company, and in September, 1910, went to Los Angeles, where he has the responsible task of building up the grow- ing passenger, export and import business of the new Los Angeles harbor. Mr. Durdan is a prominent clubman, holding memberships in the Jonathan Club, San Gabriel Valley Country Club, San Diego Country Club and the Japan Society. HANCE, CHARLES HEWITT, City Treas- urer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Montgom- ery County, Missouri, March 11, 1837, the son of John Hance and Catherine (Hewitt) Hance. His grandfath- er, Adam Hance, was a soldier in George Wash- ington's Army and was present at the surren- der of Lord Cornwallis. On October 27, 1864, he married Sarah Cather- i n e Henderson, near Columbia, Missouri. There are three chil- dren, Minnie B., i<'or- rest B., and Lucille Elma Hance. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., and attended pub- lic schools. In 1859, took a stock of goods across the plains to Denver. Enlisted in Confederate Army and served to July 28, 1862, when he lost his right arm in battle of Moore's Hill, Mo. Was clerk, Cir- cuit Court, and ex-Officio Recorder, also Clerk, Court of Common Pleas, Randolph County, Mo., two terms, 1874 to 1882. He moved to California, 1883. Located at San Jose, then Los Angeles in 1885. Was in drug business there, 1885 to 1894, when he retired. City Clerk of Los Angeles, 1896-1902, three terms. Assist- ant Cashier and Secretary of Title Guarantee and Trust Company, four years. In 1906, elected City Treasurer, and re-elected, 1909. He is a Democrat, member Good Government Organization and the City Club. 244 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 1 JVVi i ACOMBER, WALTER GLENN, president and general manager of the Macomber Rotary Engine Company, was born at Battle Creek, Mich., June 30, 1871, the son of Zebedee Macomber and Clara (Wright) Macomber. He married Mabel Godsmark, June 14, 1894, at Bedford, Michigan. Mr. Macomber has one daughter, Ina L. Macomber. Mr. Macomber was educated in the common schools of Bedford, Michigan, and studied in his home town until 18 years of age. Between the ages of 29 and 33 years he studied mechan- ical engineering and quali- fied in that profession. Mr. Macomber comes by his inventive genius natural- ly, his father before him hav- ing been a practical engineer who contriputed largely to the origination of the first traction engine, a mechanical vehicle that has practically revolutionized agricultural methods, and today is one of the most important tools used in farming. Mr. Macomber's bent dis- played itself when he was a boy going to school, and he spent most of the hours when he was not studying in the workshop of his father. These were the hours that other boys usually spent at play, hut the young Inventor got more pleasure from "making things" than he did from games. At 12 years of age he was as well versed in mechanics and me- chanical appliances as numerous men who follow those vocations in life. His first invention came when he was 14 years of age. At that time he constructed a miniature steam engine, complete in every detail. He used an ordinary teakettle for a boiler, and even with the meager power developed from this was able to get great speed out of his invention. Within a year after his initial production he had built, with his own hands and without any assistance, a self- inking printing press, running with remarkable ac- curacy. This accomplishment surprised and de- lighted the hoy and his father, and the latter then taught his son all he could about the mechanical arts. When he was 21 years of age he started in the photographic business at Augusta, a suburb of Bat- tle Creek, Michigan, and remained in it three years. Although this line of work was attractive to Mr. Macomber, he fully realized that his real life work lay within the mechanical arts. There- fore at an opportune time he accepted a position with the Croesus Mining Company at Johannes- burg, California, as engineer. This position he held for over two years. From the Croesus Mining Company Mr. Macom- ber changed to the Radcliffe Mines, near Ballarat, California, where he was given the superintend- ency in the mechanical department. This position Mr. Macomber held for three years. He next he- came affiliated with the Randsburg Water Company, at Randsburg, California. It was while here that his abil- ity in mechanics became manifest. Three pumping plants were operated by gas engines, the wells being some three miles apart, and each formerly necessitated an engineer. By an inven- tion of his own Mr. Macom- ber operated the three by telephone. He could sit in his office and instantly tell how any plant was working, and stop it if not working properly. It was while operating the wells near Randsburg that Mr. Macomber invented the rotary engine, an absolutely new idea in engineering con- struction, and one which was destined to make him one of the leading inventors of Ms time. This engine, which is known as the Macomber Ro- tary, is a fine application of the science of equilibrium and has created wonder- ment in the world of engineering. It proved a valu- hie addition to the development of aviation and is looked upon as a solution of the problem of aerial vibration, which in the past had thrown many aero- planes off their balance and caused disaster to the man and the machine. The Macomber Rotary is set in perfect balance and so constructed that every part of the appliance revolves except the frame. Following the perfecting of his engine, Mr. Ma- comber patented it in all its parts, and, going to Los Angeles in 1909, organized a company for its manufacture. Since that time he has devoted all his energies to the concern, and is now reaping the reward of ability and endeavor, while at the same time mak- ing plans for a greater future. Owing to the busy and studious life he has led, Mr. Macomber never became a clubman or lodge member, and all the spare moments he can take from his business he devotes to his home and his family. G. MACOMBER NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 245 UELLER, OSCAR C. M« attorney at law, Los Angeles, S California, is a native of Den- ver, Colorado, where he was born September 7, 1876. He is the son of Otto Mueller and Nettie (Kette) Mueller. On April 5, 1900, at Los Angeles, he married Ivy S. Schoder, of which union there is one child, Douglas S. Mueller. When Mr. Mueller was a child of but four years of age his family moved to California and settled at Los Angeles. He entered the public schools of that city in 1881. From 1890 to 1892 he studied at the Berkeley Gymnasium, Berkeley, California, when he re- turned to Los Angeles and during the two years following was a student at Occidental College of that city. After finishing his studies at Occidental Col- lege he took up the study of law in the offices of the late Judge W. H. Wilde of Los Angeles, where he remained during the years 1895, 1896 and 1897. He read law exten- sively and his special readings were centered on corporation and probate matters. In 1898 he took a brief law course at the University of Virginia. On returning from his law studies in the East, he commenced the practice of law in Los Angeles, and has continued in this pro- fession down to date. His labors in that city have been attended with decided success and he is now marked as an attorney of wide re- pute. He has become the attorney for many of the leading Los Angeles corporations. He is the legal adviser for numerous large es- tates, a class of work that forms a consider- able part of his professional duties. Aside from his local corporation work he is associated with quite a number of large outside corporations, whose coast or southwestern representative he is in all OSCAR C. MUELLER legal affairs necessitating attention there. During recent years Mr. Mueller has fig- ured prominently in the Federal courts in ir- rigation litigation and has had much to do with the establishment of the validity of bonds issued in connection with irrigation projects. One of his notable cases in this line of work was that of the People of the State of California versus the Ferris Irrigation Dis- trict, which was fought out in the Supreme Court of the State. Mr. Mueller was one of the originators of the annexation project b y which the town of San Pedro was annexed to the city of Los Angeles. When the movement in 1906 obtained sufficient impetus, the Chamber of Commerce of Los An- geles appointed a com- mittee known as the Consolidation Committee, with Mr. Mueller as chairman, and these men were instrumental in bringing about the final annexation to the city of the little ocean town, making Los Angeles a seaport city. He is a typical Southern Californian, and anything that speaks for the welfare of the community receives his moral and financial approval and support. As a man interested in Los Angeles and its prog- ress, he has served two terms as director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and similarly for the Los Angeles Bar Associa- tion. He is a believer in clean politics and works with his party to that end. He is an active Republican. He is a worker in the Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce and has done much to fur- ther the cause of that organization. He is well known in the club and lodge circles of Los Angeles, where he is a mem- ber of the Masonic Orders of both Rites. He is also a member of the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and of the Jonathan Chib. 246 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY I RIMES, CHARLES, Mining, Pasadena, California, is a native of the State of Mary- land, where he was born on September 20, 1859. His father was Charles H. Grimes and his mother Sarah A. (Hobbs) Grimes. He married Florence E. Black, at Pasadena, October 9, 1889. They are the parents of two chil- dren, Zillah and Gladys Grimes. Mr. Grimes was not well favored in the mat- ter of education in his youth, his studies being confined to the country schools of his native State, and consequently his success in life is due to his own ability. He spent his early days in working on a farm in the State of Maryland, but when he was a young man he left the farm and went to work on a rail- road. He continued in the railroad business for sev- eral years, but in Octo- ber, 1885, was attracted by the stories of wonder- ful opportunity to be found in California. This was the boom time of the Golden State and Mr. Grimes was in the great army of fortune hunters who went there at that period. He arrived in Pasadena, and was so struck with the beauties of the place that he decided to make that his future home. The first few years after his arrival Mr. Grimes was engaged in various capacities, but being a man of progressive ideas he kept his eyes open for a chance to go into busi- ness for himself. Finally, in February, 1892, he embarked in the tobacco business at Pasadena, and about four years later he became proprietor of a restaurant, which he conducted until 1910. California is a place where opportunities for investment are numerous and Mr. Grimes has interests in many enterprises. But it was not until about three years ago that he really became a factor in the mining field CHARLES GRIMES at that time renouncing practically all other ment. business except that of mining. He assisted in the organization of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, and was elected president of it, a position he has held down to the present day. After he had served as presi- dent for a year the office of treasurer was added to his duties, and he is now occupy- ing both. The Tom Reed property is lo- cated in Mojave County, Arizona, near the town of Kingman, and is one of the best gold min- ing properties in the United States today. In the three }'ears it has been in existence a tre- mendous amount of ore has been mined, and it gives promise of being one of the most produc- t i V e mines in the country. In addition to his in- terests in the Tom Reed Mine, Mr. Grimes is a stockholder in mining en- terprises in other parts of Arizona and in northern California. In the poli- cies of each of these his counsel plays an im- portant part and he has shown keen judgment in the management of the Tom Reed property. Another business which claims part of Mr. Grimes' time is the Aus- tin Biscuit Company, of Pasadena, a growing and prosperous concern in which he is one of the principal stockholders and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Grimes is not a clubman, but he is prominent in lodge circles in Southern Cali- fornia and has been the recipient of honors from his various fraternal orders. He is a life member of Pasadena Lodge, No. 272, A. F. & A. M., also of the Council Chapter, Royal Arch and Pasadena Commandery, Knights Templar. He belongs to Pasadena Consistory. He is a thirty-second degree member of the Pasadena Consistory, and also belongs to the Maccabees, W. O. W., Elks aad the Knights of Pythias. He is a man of more than ordinary civic pride and has taken an active part in various improvements which have tended to make Pasadena almost a model city of beautiful homes and environ- NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 247 SYDNEY SMITH MITH, SYDNEY, Capitalist, Los Angeles, California, was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1869. His father was C. Sydney Smith and his mother Diana Waters (Allan) Smith. He is a direct descendant of Colonel William Allan, well-known to Canadians. In 1889 he married Lois M. Yount, in California. There is one son, Sydney Howard Smith. Mr. Smith obtained his education at Tassie Col- lege, Gait, Canada, and Trinity College, Port Hope, Canada. He studied medicine. He then attended Day's Commercial College, Toronto. Leaving col- lege, he made a tour of the world, returning to Canada prepared to enter business. Mr. Smith devoted considerable time to studying mining conditions. He went West to develop the famous Sun and Moon Mine of Idaho Springs, Col- orado. Shortly after this he became interested in mining in Mexico, where he at one time was a heavy investor. He opened and started the consoli- dation of all the mines of Austin, Nevada, a transac- tion profitable to himself and associates. Although practically retired from active business, Mr. Smith retains his interest in his mining and oil properties. He is Vice President of the France- Wellman Oil Company. Since his retirement he has traveled extensively both throughout this continent and in Europe, hav- ing made a second trip around the globe. Mr. Smiia is fond of motoring, and belongs to several auto- mobile clubs. He and his son spend a great many hours together on their motoring tours and outing trips. His son has been in attendance at St. An- drews College, Toronto, Canada, for the past ten years. He located in Los Angeles in 1909. He is a member. South Shore Country Club, Chi- cago; Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago; Cleveland (Ohio) Country Club, Chicago Automobile Club and Los Angeles Automobile Club. F. P. GRBGSON 13 REGSON, FREDERICK PATRICK, Traffic Manager of the Associated Jobbers of Los Angeles, Califor- nia, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 17, 1861, the son of John Proctor Gregson of Water- ford, Ireland, and Marie Laramie. He received his education in the public school of Cairo, Illinois. At the age of thirteen years he quit school and became a messenger for the Illinois Central Rail- road at Cairo, studying the telegraph business at the same time. A year later he became an operator and agent at a small station. From that time on he occupied various positions on various roads, with a view of getting a thorough practical education in the various branches of railroading. In 1887 he came to Los Angeles from Texas and entered the service of the Southern California Railway. He filled positions in the train and station branches for eleven years and in 1898 was appointed Chief Clerk of the Traflic Department of the Santa Fe Railroad at Los Angeles, under Edward Cham- bers. He remained in the position until 1908, when he resigned to take his present position. Since his tenure of office his city of Los Angeles has waged a struggle for commercial recognition, and for a share of the markets of California and the adjacent inland states. Railroad freight rates had been so adjusted by the railroads entering California as to make it practically Impossible for Los Angeles to transact any jobbing business. The high rates on products from the East made living high. Mr. Gregson has always been at the fore- front of the fight to get for Los Angeles the rates it thought it deserved. Appeals were made to the Interstate Commerce Commission and to the Rail- way Commission of California. In the framing of the appeals, in the gathering of the data, Mr. Greg- son has been of great help on account of his ex- perience with railroad traffic. 248 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY A VERILL, GEORGE ED- WARD, oil and oil land oper- ator, Los Angeles, California, native of Iowa, being IS a born at Fairfield, that state, 1864. His parents were Averill and Anna S. (Wells) October 22, Norman S. Averill. On April 26, 1896, Mr. Averill was mar- ried to Miss Mamie E. Williams at Los Angeles. They have one son, Nor- man W. Averill. Mr. Averill came with his parents to California in 1879, and settled first at Garden Grove, coming to Los Angeles in 1880. He attended the Los Angeles High school up to 1882, when he entered the service of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, and became the second manager for the company in Los Angeles. On leaving the employ of the telephone company Mr. Averill secured a po- sition with the firm of W. C. Furrey Company, hardware merchants, then at 159-169 North Spring street, where he learned bookkeeping un- der the tutelage of Mri P. H. Lemmert; in 1885 he became an employe of the Germain Fruit Company, and in November of that year he took full charge of the books of that large concern, and was the firm's bookkeeper and then cashier until 1894, when he was placed in charge of the office work of the Porter Brothers of Chicago, in their Los Angeles and Sacramento offices, remaining five years with this concern. In 1898 Mr. Averill joined forces with the Earl Fruit Company in Sacramento and Los Angeles, having full charge of their ma- terial department, purchasing the supplies of box and packing material and distribut- ing the same to the various shipping agencies. In 1902 Mrs. Averill's health became af- fected, and it was thought best to move to San Francisco, where Mr. Averill entered the employ of the J. K. Armsby Company, where he remained for three years, and in GEORGE E. AVERILL August, 1905, he was made the sales agent for the Associated Oil Company, his terri- tory being Southern California, with head- quarters in the Pacific Electric Building. This position Mr. Averill held with un- varying and technical knowledge to as good advantage for himself as could any one else, so he went into business as an oil broker, selling oil lands and leases as a broker, and has continued ever since, though acquiring interests in several com- panies. Mr. Averill, by straightforward and hon- est methods, and by de- manding the same ot those with whom he deals, enjoys the confi- dence of the oil magnates of this region and of San Francisco. His careful considera- tion and long experience in the oil business in the various fields of Califor- n i a has enabled Mr. Averill to be recognized as a thoroughly reliable man and whose good judgment in matters per- taining to oil lands is recognized by the pros- pective investor as well as by the oil men. Mr. Averill has been successful in closing a number of deals on oil properties in the past two years, all of which have been good money makers for the pur- chasers. He came to California with his father, mother and brother. His brother, John M. Averill, was drowned in 1882 in the reservoii in East Los Angeles, just east of what is known as the Indian Village ; his father, N. S. Averill, was for fourteen years prior to his death, in January, 1911, secretary of the Board of Education of the City of Los An- geles, and left a heritage of fair name and sincerity that no money could buy. Mr. Averill's mother has been connected with the schools, and various educational and literarjr institutions of the city, as teacher, principal, superintendent, and finally was member of the Board of Education and hon- orary member of nearly all of the clubs and societies of the city, and was, as well, a founder of the Los Angeles Y. W. C. A. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 249 EED, GEORGE WILLIAM, Attor- ney at Law, San Francisco, was born in Vassalboro, Maine, June 14, 1852, the son of William and Hannah Carleton (Hall) Reed. Coming to Oakland when he was about four years old he has grown up with that city and has attained a notable position. On Janu- ary 15, 1891, some years after the death of his first wife, he was married to Miss Georgia Alice Brown. By the first marriage he is the father of Mabel Linden Reed (now Mrs. Harry A. Lane of Los Angeles) and Clarence Munroe Reed, mem- ber of the firm of Reed, Black & Reed. Another son, Rus- sell Albert Reed, died at the age of seventy-one years. From 1858 to 1864 Mr. Reed attended the public schools of Oakland, subse- quently entering the Brayton School of the same city, and in '72 was graduated from the University of California. He then studied law with the intention of beginning his legal career as soon as possi- ble, but at the end of four years was appointed Deputy County Clerk, under his brother, Charles G. Reed. This position he held for four years, continuing his law studies in the meantime, and in December, 1879, was ad- mitted to practice. Until 1883 Mr. Reed was a law clerk in the office of A. A. Moore, at which time he became a partner of the firm of Moore & Reed, which soon built up an extensive and profit- able business. In 1888 he was elected District At- torney of Alameda County, and was re-elected in 1890. Not long after the expiration of his second term he formed the partnership of Reed & Nus- baumer. This for eleven years was one of the leading legal firms of Oakland, doing a large civil business, especially in probate matters and damage cases. At the end of this period Mr. Reed organized the present firm of Reed, Black & Reed, which in addition to an extensive probate practice has a con- siderable corporation clientele. Among the especially important cases with which Mr. Reed was associated, and in which points of law were settled for the State of California, was that of Bacon vs. Davis, which involved the question of a real estate contract to sell property, and a large piece of land on Broadway. This was bitterly con- tested, and the judgioent of the Court of Appeals, which had reversed the decision of the lower court. G. W. REED was confirmed by the Supreme Court's denial of the petition for a rehearing. Still more noteworthy was the case, which is now a leading one, of Mar- tial Davoust vs. the City of Alameda. The wife of the plaintiff while walking on the streets of Ala- meda had been killed by a broken electric wire, and the corporation held that as a public concern it was not liable. Through the efforts of Mr. Reed and his associates this point was established: "Although municipal corporations are not liable for the negli- gence of their officers or serv- ants when acting in their governmental, political or public capacity, in the ab- sence of a statute permitting it, yet when the injury arises from the exercise of mere pro- prietary and private rights they are liable for negligence, like individuals or private corporations." The Butters will contest, in which Mr. Reed was one of the counsel, attracted wide interest, both in the profession and with the public generally. This was a contest to set aside the will of Lucie B. Butters, which involved half a million dol- lars, for the benefit of eight heirs, all of whom now get an equal share. Mr. Reed has always been an ardent and active Repub- lican. From 1907 to 1908, in- clusive, he was chairman of the Republican County Cen- tral Committee, and was also a delegate to the national conventions of 1900, 1904 and 1908. He was a member of Victor Metcalf's Congressional Commit- tee, and is still on that of Joseph R. Knowland. While at the University Mr. Reed was a mem- ber of the Varsity baseball nine, and is still an ardent "fan." The indulgence of this taste and that of angling in California's mountain streams are about the only forms of recreation he permits himself. His firm are now attorneys for the Union Sav- ings Bank of Oakland, the Permanent Guarantee and Loan Society, and several other corporations. He is also a trustee of the Cogswell Polytechnic College of San Francisco, and a director of the California Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind at Berkeley. He is a Mason, a Past Exalted Ruler of the Elks, an Odd Fellow and a member of the State of Maine Association. He is a member of the Athenian Club of Oak- land and the Zeta Psi Fraternity of the University of California. 250 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY F. E. WARE NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 251 ARE, FRANK ELLSWORTH, Min- ing Engineer and Operator, San Francisco, was born in West Gar- diner, Maine, February 25, 1864, the son of Ezekiel and Jane (Smith) Ware. Both his paternal and maternal descent is English, with a blend of French blood. His American ancestors were among the early settlers of New England, and a number of them fought for their country in the Revolu- tionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. The French strain in the family was derived from the marriage of a member to one of General Lafayette's officers. F. E. Ware, by yielding to the objections of his relatives and de- clining the offer of an appointment to West Point, missed the chance of continuing the military tra- ditions of his family. He came to California, from Seattle, on January 6, 1896, and on January 30, 1901, was married in San Francisco to Miss Lillian Rae. The children of this marriage were Harley Scribner Ware, born September 22, 1904, and Vir- gil Rae Ware, born September 23, 1906, both of whom are dead. From 1870 to 1878 Mr. Ware attended the public schools of West Gardiner, Maine, and then entered the Classical Academy at Hallowell, Maine, from which institution he was graduated in 1882. He then became a student at Bowdoin College, in the class of '86, but transferred thence to Colorado Col- lege, Colorado Springs, leaving there to engage in mining in Butte, Montana. Then began a career full of incident, which in any other day than the present, when even the most startling experiences and achievements are ac- cepted as a matter of course, would have been de- clared romantic. It was the typical search for for- tune of the present-day American, a search which led into the unknown wilderness, to contact with savages and the rough characters of the frontier, and at one time or another by way of contrast into the palatial drawing rooms of New York clubs and hotels. In any situation Mr. Ware found himself at home, even like the storied characters of Richard Harding Davis. Not even the imagination of the latter conceived enterprises and climaxes more un- usual. But he himself has never imagined that his life was out of the ordinary. After four years in Montana, with varying suc- cess, Mr. Ware went to Washington Territory, and for the next seven or eight years operated in that country and in British Columbia, acquiing a for- tune, which was lost in the panic of 1893. In both of these countries he was one of the pioneer mining operators, as well as the first trail and road builder, and thereby contributed considerably to the devel- opment of the districts wherein he worked. In Okanagan County, Washington Territory, a touch of romance was added to his experiences by the part he played in the trouble that arose between some ex-convicts and the Indians, in 1894. One of the former, who had killed an Indian, was given a hearing by the United States Commissioner, who was to decide whether or not the culprit was to be bound over to the United States Courts. Feeling ran high between the factions engaged. The ex- convicts were determined that if the decision were adverse to their comrade they would resist the law and start a rebellion. The Commissioner did decide against them, but Ware and his men "got the drop" that quelled the threatened insurrection, and prevented an Indian war. The Indians heartily congratulated Mr. Ware and his men for their good service in the matter. In 1896 Mr. Ware devoted his energies largely to the acquisition and the development of gold and copper properties in California, and became the principal owner of some of the richest gold and copper mines in Shasta County, which at that time was adding to its fame for mineral wealth by the discoveries there of the latter metal. By 1905 he matured his plans to combine all the copper mines of Shasta County into one company, having a smelter of five thousand tons daily capaoiey. To this end he secured options on all but one of the copper mines of that county, not already controlled by himself, and had $3,000,000 of bonds underwrit- ten in New York to finance the project. His health failing at that time, the execution of the plan was left to his associates, who, as seems to be almost customary under such conditions, quarreled among themselves, and thereby defeated their own inter- ests, as well as his, in the great enterprise. Another chance was given Mr. Ware to perpet- uate his military traditions in a startling way. In 1905 he was offered unlimited backing, by a New York syndicate, to organize an army of Spanish war veterans, take Nicaragua and become Dictator thereof in the interest of this ambitious syndicate. He was to have command of twenty thousand soldiers, under whose protection he was to develop the mines, rivers, transportation and other indus- tries of the company — a combination, in short sim- ilar to that now about to operate in Guatemala. He declined the offer and the concession was lost through delay. Mr. Ware is now chiefly occupied in the develop- ment and financing of mining, irrigation and water power enterprises in California, the great possi- bilities of which in this State his investigations have revealed to him. Although he is an engineer by profession and has had many offers to engineer for others, he has always preferred to operate on his own account, his strong sense of initiative and confidence in his own judgment prompting him to this course. Formerly a deep student of economic questions, he regards industrial development as a practical solution of many of the problems pre- sented by such a study. He has not found time to devote to clubs and fraternal life, but was at one time a member of the Rainier Club of Seattle and of the Reform Club of New York. 252 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OLGATE, CHARLES ERN- EST, physician, Los Angeles, California, is of English birth, having come into the world at Bramley, York- shire, England, on September 25, 1876. His father was Alfred Holgate and his mother before her marriage was Miss Eliza Crab- tree. He was married in 1904 to Miss Annie Brown, in Los An- geles, and has a son, Charles Gordon Holgate. His early education was had at the Bramley National Schools up to the age of twelve, when he studied by himself until he was able to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Los An- geles, now of the Univer- sity of Southern Califor- nia, where he studied from 1904 to 1906, taking his degree of M. D. Dr. Holgate is a self- made man and has reason to be proud of the fact. He had a strenuous youth ; when but twelve years old he entered one of Yorkshire's big woolen factories, where he was employed for two years, and then he secured employment in a steel mill under his father, where he worked four years. This life at his age caused him to become restless, and, in a spirit of ad- venture, he enlisted in the Seventeenth West Yorkshire Infantry Regiment, in 1895, and served until 1896, when he found barrack existence not at all to his liking and he came to the United States in March of 1896. Here he lived for several years on the farm of his uncle, David Crabtree, working on his uncle's farm and for neighbors, and was fortunate enough to later enter the employ of Dr. E. C. Austin of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, who gave the young man the best of advice, in that he should obtain a profession ; Dr. Austin opened to Dr. Holgate his own library, and to this kindness and interest Dr. Holgate frankly attributes his chance to engage in the study of medicine. DR. CHARLES E. HOLGATE While delving into the medical books of St. George. continuously Dr. Holgate worked in Chicago as a carpenter and painter and was em- ployed on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, and in the summer of 1891 he made his way to Denver and worked at ranching and did some prospecting. But during all the time from the era when at twelve he was obliged to leave his school and struggle for existence, Dr. Holgate never for a moment forsook his ambition to secure a college education, and he man- aged to win out; he se- cured employment on the Frater ranch, at Charter Oak, and meanwhile en- tered the Pacific Hos- pital in September, 1902, and left for college in September, 1904. Securing his degree in 1908, and carrying away the class honors, he was not satisfied with that success, but plunged into the intricacies of law, and was admitted to prac- tice August, 1910. Since that time he found his medical prac- tice grew too rapidly to admit of his giving any attention to his legal acquirements. But he accomplished his fixed purpose in not only acquiring proficiency in one profession but in two. His work at college was so conscientious and purposeful that in 1906 he was awarded the first gold medal ever given at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1908 he gained the senior class medal. Dr. Holgate is an enthusiast in all out-of- door sports. He has also an almost rehgious belief in the future of the Pacific Coast, a belief he has evidenced by his works; this prompted him to become an active member of the Los An- geles Chamber of Commerce. He takes an equally active part in the affairs of the Y. M. C. A. Besides his membership in the organization named he belongs to the Los Angeles Camp, Woodmen of the World, and to the Loyal Order of Moose and the Sons NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 253 EWLETT, EUGENE E., At- torney-at-Law, Los Angeles, California, is a native of that State. He was born at Peta- luma, June, 1878. His father was Fred Hewlett and his mother Cleora M) Hewlett. On October 20, 1905, at Oakland, California, he was married to lone H. C. Ford. Mr. Hewlett spent his boyhood days in Peta- 1 u m a, California, and later, when the family moved to San Francisco, he there attended the public schools. After completing his prepara- tory education in that city he entered the Uni- versity of California, at Berkeley, where he stud- ied law. He received the degree of B. L. in 1900 from that university and determined to go East to finish his law education. He attended the Harvard University, Law College, for three years, receiving the degree of LL.B. from that institution in 1903. Returning to San Francisco, he received the same mark of distinction from the Hastings Law School in the same year. His first venture in the legal world was made in San Francisco, where he opened up a general law practice. Being his home city, and having a large acquaintance there, his rise was rapid and for over a year he con- tinued to practice alone. Mr. Hewlett moved to Los Angeles in the latter part of 1904, becoming a member of the firm of Hewlett, Bancroft and Ballan- tine, with offices located both in San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles. This association has had a flourishing general law practice, particularly in Los Angeles. The firm, al- though following a general practice, special- ized on corporation law. In 1910, after six years of continued practice, Mr. Hewlett withdrew from the firm, retaining ofifices for himself in the Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, still keeping his San Francisco offices. Since 1910 he has continued practice alone, mostly general in character, in Los Angeles, and on the opening of the magnifi- cent new Trust and Sav^ ings Building, at the cor- ner of Sixth and Spring streets, he located his offices there in a hand- some suite. His office in San Francisco is lo- cated in the Monadnock Building. Mr. Hewlett's affairs necessitate his dividing his time between Los Angeles and the northern city. He has a large law library of several thou- sand volumes and makes it a point to add to this collection of booki on every possible occa- sion. He is prominently E. E. HEWLETT connected in both Los Angeles and San Francisco in a social as well as in a professional way. He is a believer in good government work and aids all of the better movements for the upbuilding of state and city. Mr. Hewlett is a member of the Cali- fornia Club, the Jonathan Club of Los An- geles, and of the Annandale Country Club, Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Country Club. He is also a member of the University Club of San Francisco. When attending college he was a member of the D. K. E. Fraternity. Mr. Hewlett is fond of motoring and finds time to spend in this recreative pas- time. He has a beautiful residence located at Oak Knoll, Pasadena. 254 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ILSON, JOHN CHARLES, Stock and Bond Broker, San Francisco, was born in San Francisco, July 21, 1870, the son of John Charles and Ag- nes (Cowan) Wilson. His parents, who were of Scotch and English origin, were among the early residents of San Francisco, where his father was well known as a large dealer in cdke and pig iron, and evi- dently transmitted to their son the qualities of shrewd- ness and energy pre- sumed to inhere in the Scotch-English blood. J. C. Wilson, from his boy- hood, has been what is known as a "hustler," and the remarkable success which has attended his efforts bear ample testi- mony to the ability he has put into them. On February 10, 1904, he was married in the old Palace Hotel of San Francisco to Miss Mabel C. Cluff, daughter of the well- known merchant, William Cluff. The children of this marriage are Daniel Lynch, Thomas Cluff and Mabel Wilson. By a for- mer union he is also the father of J. C. Wilson, Jr. After attending the pri- mary and grammar schools of San Francisco he entered Sack- ett's School, in Oakland, where from 1886 to 1889, inclusive, he took the regular commer- cial course, together with Latin and the higher mathematics, and studied to equip himself for the business career he had planned, primarily to enter the firm with which his father was connected, that of J. Macdonough & Co. From 1890 to 1902 he was a clerk in this house, in which he also had a contingent in- terest. Not being afraid of jolts he took any- thing that came his way, from marking and handling sacks to balancing a ledger, and rose rapidly to a responsible position. In 1900 the company sold to the \\^estern Fuel Company, in which Mr, Wilson became a director. This function he discharged for the next two years, but found the business insufficiently active for his abundant en- ergies. He desired something requiring J. C. WILSON initiative, originality and the traits that make for genuine progress. He found this desider- atum in the course of which he subsequently adopted, that of a broker for clients dealing in stocks, bonds, grains, provisions, oil and similar industries. On September 20, 1905, he became a member of the San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange, and began the career which has led to his present position of the leading stock broker on the Pacific Coast. The remarkable expan- sion of his business is fairly well indicated by the important connections he has made in the last six years. On September 17, 1908, he joined the New York Stock Ex- change, the Chicago Stock Exchange on Sep- tember 19th of the same year, and on August 9, 1911, the New York Cot- ton Exchange. Through these years Mr. Wilson, by concen- trating his energies on the work in hand, giving his clients every facility, and by an absolute ab- sence of failures winning their confidence, has grad- ually enlarged his busi- ness to a very wide scope. Of this fact the character of his eastern correspondents, among them such firms as Harris, Winthrop & Co., is an- other index. Outside of his brokerage business he has considerable real estate interests, and a large social acquaintance. Beyond this the many financiers from the East, who visit the coast, are in a measure responsible for Mr. Wilson's reputation as a lavish entertainer. For a period of six years, from 1900 to 1905, inclusive, Mr. Wilson was a Yosemite Park commissioner, under both Governor Gage and Governor Pardee, but has not oth- erwise been very active politically. He has for years been a prominent and popular clubman, and among his many clubs and or- ganizations are the Pacific-Union, Bohemian, Family, Cosmos and Merchants' Exchange, of S. F.; Burlingame Country, San Mateo Polo, of San Mateo County ; California, of L. A.; Masons, and K. T. (Cal. Commandery). NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 255 ILLER, HENRY, San Fran- cisco, California, Stock-raiser, Land-owner and Capitalist, was born in Brackenheim, Germany, July 21, 1828. His father was a dealer in cattle, and his forefathers on the maternal side were vintners. He reached California in the year 1849, first settling in San Francisco, where in the year 1860 he was married to Miss Sarah Wilmot Sheldon, the niece of his first wife, deceased. The sur- viving- child of this mar- riage is Mrs. J. Leroy Xickel, born Nellie Sarah Miller. From his seventh to his fourteenth year he at- tended the village school, but from the age of eight earned his own living, his assistance to his father offsetting the cost of his maintenance. At school he was noted for his aptitude for figures, his excellent memory and his impatience of control. His strong commercial traits, which he later de- veloped to a high degree of efficiency, were evinced at a very early age. At twelve he was in the habit of buying cattle, sheep and goats, generally at a bargain, and driving them to his father's packing house. B'ut chafing under parental training and not lik- ing the prospect of the long apprenticeship necessary, nor the emoluments of ten Prus- sian dollars for his first year's work, he soon after removed to Holland, thence to England, whence in 1847 he carne to New York, in every instance changing his abode solely to better his condition. After working in New York, first as a gardener for four dollars a month, and then as assistant to a pork butcher for eight dol- lars per thirty days of sixteen hours a day he saved enough money to pay his passage to_ San Francisco, which he reached in '49, with six dollars in his pocket. Having formed the habit of reliance on his own judgment he had no misgivings of the future. He first engaged himself to a French- man to butcher sheep, at the head of Dupont HENRY MILLER street, now Grant a\'enue, and worked for him two months, for small wages, doing his own cooking and economizing in every way possible. After the fire of June, 1851, he leased a lot on Jackson street, for $150 cash, erected a one-story building and set up shop as a retail butcher, a business in which he soon became a wholesale dealer. In 1853 he bought and delivered in San Francisco the first herd of cattle ever driven into a San Fran- cisco market. Four years later he purchased, with Mr. Charles Lux, sixteen hundred head of Texas steers, and formed the partnership which was the foundation of the fa- mous firm of Miller & Lux, and which continued for more than twenty- five j^ears, until the death of Mr. Lux. The beginning of Mr. Miller's vast investments in country lands was the purchase, on his private account, of the Bloom- field ranch near Gilroy. This consisted at first of 1700 acres, which he sub- sequently increased to 30- 000 acres. Selected pri- marily as a suitable as- sembling place for the herds of cattle from the southern counties, this land ultimately became very valuable. Miller & Lux gradually increased their holdings until they covered 750,000 acres in eleven different counties of Californa, and also large tracts in Oregon and Nevada. In 1888 it was estimated that they had on this land one hundred thousand cattle and eighty thousand sheep. The area of their grazing land alone is almost equal to that of the State of Rhode Island, and for several years their sales of meat averaged $1,500,000 a year. Among Mr. Miller's other notable achieve- ments was his organization of the San Joaquin and King's River Canal and Irriga- tion Company, of which in 1876 the firm, in self-defense, got control. He is known also for his large charities, and many recipients thereof are indebted to him for their support and education in their early years. 256 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY R. F. DEL VALLB EL VALLE, HON. REGINALDO FRANCISCO, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, Cal. Was born there Dec. 15, 1854. His father was Ygnacio Del Valle and his mother Ysabel (Varela) Del Valle. On Sept. 2, 1890, he married Helen M. White Cayatile in San Francisco. There is one child, Lucretia Louise Del Valle. Mr. Del Valle entered St. Vincent's College in 1867, remaining until June, 1871; then went to Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, Cal., where he graduated with the degree Bachelor of Sciences June, 1873. His first venture in the law was at Los Angeles, where he opened practice shortly after he was admitted to plead in the Supreme Court. In 1879 he was elected to the State Assembly of California from Los Angeles on the Democratic ticket and was re-elected in 1880. In this year he was Presi- dential Elector for Hancock and English. A year later received complimentary vote for Speaker. In 1882 he was elected Senator from Los An- geles County and served four years, part as presi- dent pro tem. In 1884 ran for Congress. Four years later he was chairman State Convention at Los Angeles, and in 1890 was nominated for Lieut. Gov. In 1892 he was chairman of the Committee on Resolutions of the State Convention at Fresno. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1893. In 1894 he was chairman Democratic State Convention at San Francisco. He has been a member of every State convention for more than thirty years, has been a campaign orator and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1900 at Kansas City. He is an authority on parliamentary law. At present he is a member of the Board of Public Service in charge of the Water Department of Los Angeles. BENJ. F. BLEDSOE " LEDSOE, BENJAMIN F., Judge of Superior Court, San Bernardino, California, was bom February 8, 1874, in San Bernardino. His father was Robert E. Bled- soe and his mother Althea Bot toms. He is a descendant of Hon. Jesse Bledsoe, United States Senator from Kentucky. Judge Bledsoe married Katharine Marvin Shep- ler at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 25, 1899, There are two children, Barbara Shepler and Prances Priscilla Bledsoe. He attended the public schools of San Bernar- dino until 1891, and then entered Leland Stanford, Jr., University, graduating in 1896. He was admitted to the Bar and was his father's law partner until 1901, when he was elected Judge of the Superior Court. He was re-elected without opposition in 1906. At the state primary election in 1910 Judge Bledsoe was nominated by the Democratic party to run for the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He is a director in the Farmers' Exchange Na- tional Bank of San Bernardino, the Golden State Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles and other business enterprises. From 1898-1900 he was United States Referee in Bankruptcy, San Bernardino County. Member Board of Library Trustees since 1899, and has been president of that body since 1907. He is also presi- dent of the Alumni Association of Stanford Uni- ver=ity. He is grand chancellor Knights of Pythias (1911- 12) ; grand orator Grand Lodge of Masons (1908- 09); grand warder Knights Templar (1911-12), and a member Delta Upsilon and Phi Delta Phi, college fraternities. He is a member of the University Club of Los Angeles. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 257 CHARLES N. CAMPBELL — — M AMPBELL, CHARLES NICHOLAS, ^^\. fc Wells-Pargo & Co. Express ^ J Superintendent, Western Texas Division, San Antonio, Texas. Born at Kodiac, Alaslia, May 13, 1870. His father was John Au- gustus Campbell and his mother Sophia B. (Pav- loff) Campbell. Married Cora Dale Barnhill, Jan- uary 19, 1893, at Kansas City, Mo. Educated in public schools, Moberly, Mo., 1876- 1883. February 10, 1886, entered service Wells-Fargo & Co. as a clerk at Houston, Texas. His pro- motions speak more eloquently than anything else that could be said regarding his worth. From Houston he was sent to Kansas City, Mo., October 24, 1888, as Clerk; January 8, 1891, Chief Clerk to Supt. Kansas City, Mo.; March 1, 1892, Cashier, Kansas City, Mo.; January 9, 1893, Agent, Las Ve- gas, New Mexico; Nov. 22, 1893, Agent, Wichita, Kas.; February 3, 1896, Agent, Colorado Springs, Colo.; May 1, 1897, Route Agent, Colorado Springs; July 1, 1898, Route Agent, Salt Lake City, Utah; April 20, 1900, Route Agent, San Francisco; July 11, 1900, Agent Los Angeles; January 1, 1905, General Agent, Los Angeles, in charge of Los Angeles of- fice, and territory covered by electric lines; Aug. 1, 1911, Supt. Western Texas Division, San Antonio, in charge of business opened up over new lines. A member for three year enlistment of the Na- tional Guard, Missouri, Battery B; Nov. 25, 1890, made Corporal; July 17, 1891, appointed First Ser- geant. Member of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles; charter member West Lake Lodge No. 392, F. and A. M.; King Solomon Lodge of Perfection No. 3, Los Angeles Consistory No. 3, A. and A.; Scottish Rite of Freemasonry; Los Angeles Chapter No. 33, R. A. M.; Golden West Commandery No. 43, Knights Templar; Al Malaikah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. \ GAVIN W. CRAIG RAIG, GAVIN WILLIAM, Jurist, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Scotia, Greeley County, Neb., June 22, 1878. He is the son of Gavin Ralston Craig and Emma Edwards (Morse) Craig. Judge Craig mar- ried Berdena Healy Brownsberger April 11, 1903, at Los Angeles. To them was born Florida Jean Craig. Judge Craig began his education in the public schools of Nebraska, but in 1890 was taken to Cali- fornia, where he continued in the public schools of Ukiah. In 1891 the family moved to Pomona, Cal., where he graduated from high school in 1897. In 1899 he entered the College of Law, University of Southern California, and graduated with the de- gree LL. B. in 1901. At the same time he took a course in the Brownsberger Business College. Admitted to bar in 1901, immediately began practice in the office of Byron Waters, Los An- geles; 1901 to 1903, associated with Edwin A. Meserve; 1903-4, deputy and stenographer in office of District Attorney, Los Angeles; May, 1904, was made secretary of the College of Law in his Alma Mater. Served six years teaching torts, elementary law, Blackstone, real property and water rights; now a member Board of Control of the University and teaches the last three subjects, in addition to sureties. In May, 1908, appointed Court Commissioner of Los Angeles County, and in November, 1910, was elected on Republican ticket to Superior Bench. Resigned as Commissioner January 1, 1911, to assume judicial duties. In 1908 he wrote an author- itative case book, "Craig on Water Rights and Irrigation Law in the Western States." He was thrice president of the U. S. C. alumni association, is a Scottish Rite Mason, Mystic Shriner, Woodman of the World and a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood. His clubs are the Celtic, Gamut and Metropolitan. 258 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY USH, WILLIAM E., Automo- biles, Los Angeles, Californ- ia, was born at Vriesland, Michigan, September 18, 1870. He is the son of Simon Bush and Gertrude (Tromden) Bush. He married Henrietta Sweet, at Georgestown, Michigan, May 20, 1896. He received his primary education in the public schools of Grand Rapids, Michigan, whith- er his parents had moved when he was a child, and then entered the High School of that city. He remained at school until he was fifteen years of age, when he left to learn mechanics, a line in which he became expert and with which he has been associated in all branches to the present day. He learned his trade in Grand Rapids, and after graduat- ing from the apprentice class, became a traveling mechanic. He followed his trade in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in other states. He was recog- nized as an expert. After several years spent working for other people, Mr. Bush, who had saved some consider- able money, decided in 1900, to go into business for himself. His first venture was made at South Bend, Indi- ana, where he formed a partnership known as Bush and Palmateer, builders of stationary and marine gas engines. Although the busi- ness was a paying proposition from the start, Mr. Bush, after two years, decided that he wanted to go further west, so he sold out his interest in the firm and moved to Los An- geles, where he has since remained. In 1902, the automobile boom was attain- ing its height in Southern California, and Mr. Bush, with his thorough mechanical knowl- edge, decided to enter that field. He opened first an automobile machine shop, making re- pairs and building new parts. He quickly won a reputation in the business and succeed- ed accordingly. From a small beginning, he branched out into a large automobile agency and moved to a larger plant. This place, however, he soon outgrew, and he next built a mammoth place, one of the largest auto- bile buildings in the West and today it is one of the leading motor headquarters of Southern California. When he first went into business in Los Angeles, Mr. Bush was associated with John Burge, another expert mechanic, and did busi- ness under the firm name of Bush and Burge. This partnership continued two years, when Mr. Bush bought out the interest of Burge. In Jan- uary, 1906, Mr. Bush took in another partner, the firm under this arrange- ment being known as Bush and Shields. This partnership did not last long, however, for in Sep- tember of the same year, Mr. Shields sold out his interest and Bush contin- ued business alone. The various changes in the name of the firm did not seem to have any effect upon the business, for, un- der Mr. Bush's personal management, it continued to grow. In addition to his motor car business, he is a director of the Glendora Irrigating Com- pany. In the automobile busi- ness in 'Los Angeles he BUSH is a leading factor in all movements for the bet- terment of the trade. He was at one time president of the Auto- mobile Dealers' Association of Southern Cal- ifornia, and at present is a member of the Board of Directors of that organization, which has done a good deal for good roads in Los Angeles County, and, in fact, in all of the Southwest. Mr. Bush is also a mem- ber of the Union League Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and the San Gabriel Valley Club. He is prominent in the Mystic Shrine, being a member of the Al Malaikah Tem- ple, Los Angeles, and the Plymouth Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Plymouth, Indiana. He is a member of the Technical Board of the Los Angeles branch, American Auto- mobile Association. In this connection he has been one of the officials in charge of all the automobile races in the vicinity of South- ern California for the last two years. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 259 OMINGUEZ, FRANK ED- WARD, Attorney - at - Law, Los Angeles, California, was born in that city, May 11, 1876. He is the son of Ro- sario and Guadalupe Gallardo Dominguez. On May 11, 1898, he married Jessie Street in his home city. There has been born to them one child, Helen Gertrude Dominguez. Mr. Dominguez spent his boyhood days in Los Angeles and vicinity, where his education was attained. He attended the grammar and prepar- atory schools and then registered at St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles. At the age of twelve Mr. Dominguez went into the City Engineer's office, working under the direc- tion of Eaton Dockweiler, Chief Deputy under John Drain, then Street Super- intendent of Los Angeles. During these early years Mr. Dominguez gave con- siderable amount of his spare time to the study of law and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to the Los Angeles bar. Not long after his admittance to the bar he became Deputy County Clerk. This was under Charles Bell, now Senator. His next public position was that of Clerk in the Court under Judge M. T. Allen. At this time the national interest was growing in the Philippines, where the United States was reorganizing the governmental system of the islands. Mr. Dominguez left Los Angeles and went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. He was in the Gov- ernment service nearly two years and at one time was Judge Taft's interpreter. During his service with the Government in the Philippmes Mr. Dominguez became well acquainted, and after his work under the Taft Commission was completed he decided to open a law practice there. For the next FRANK E. DOMINGUEZ four years he was busily engaged with a profitable practice, and during that time vis- ited throughout the islands, studied the con- dition of the natives and is today well in- formed on the islands in general. While there he was attorney for Emilio Aguinaldo, the famous insurgent chief of the Philippine natives. While acting in this ca- pacity he learned a great deal about the na- tives of the islands and of their history. His work for Emilio Aguin- aldo occupied a consider- able amount of time and brought him into nation- al prominence. He returned to Los Angeles after his work in the islands and opened a law practice. A little later he was appointed on a commission represent- ing the State of Colorado at the Mexican Centen- nial with the Hon. M. Tarpez and Col. George Pippy. During his work in Los Angeles since his re- turn from Mexico and the Philippines he has been associated with Earl Rog- ers in the practice of law. He is well known here and is today one of the prominent practicing attorneys of the city. His ability to speak and read the Span- ish and Mexican languages makes him a val- uable man in handling cases that deal with those peoples. His varied experiences abroad and in Mexico have been of material value to him in his profession, and today he is profit- ing by these years of experience. Born with the gift of eloquence and pos- sessed of a naturally strong voice, Mr. Do- minguez has won recognition as an orator and is one of the accomplished jury pleaders before the Bar of Southern California. Mr. Dominguez is a great man for home life, and when not engaged in the practice or study of law may be found at home with his family. 26o PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY 'DONNELL, JAMES E., petroleum lands, ('evelopment and handling, Los Angeles, California, was born in the land of the origin of oil as an article of commerce — Pennsyl- vania—December 26th, 1874. His father was T. A. O'Donnell, a pioneer in the Penn- sylvania oil fields, and his mother Myra (Parsons) O'Donnell. He received his education in the public schools of Pennsylvania. Mr. O'Donnell appears to have entered and succeeded in the oil business by force of heredity and environ- ment, as well as by a devel- opment of natural business talents of a remarkably high order, for he began his notable career at the age of 15 years. As his father was a pio- neer in business and devel- opment ventures in the Pennsylvania fields, Mr. O'Donnell naturally absorbed the details and practical knowledge which surrounded his daily life as a boy, and as soon as he was able to be of value began to put to practical application the knowledge that he seemed to have intuitively acquired. After seeking with more or less degree of success places where he could turn his natural bent to work in oil lands, he adventured as far as Colorado, where his attention was called to the discoveries made in Southern California and the indications that here was to be established a producing region second to no other in the world. So in 1891 he left Colorado and came to Cali- fornia, finally selecting Santa Paula as his first place of operating. That the step was well taken is shown by what will be said of his record. Officially he is president of the Nacirema Oil Company, field manager and stockholder of the American Oil Fields Company, a large stockholder of the American Petroleum Company and a director of the Bungalow Apartments Company. But the official designations and personal promi- nence of Mr. O'Donnell by no means indicate what he has achieved, nor the importance his activities and talents have been to the tremendous oil indus- try of the State. Ever since his arrival in 1891 he has been ex- haustless in his efforts and remarkably perceptive in his conclusions regarding opportunities and pos- sibilities in his chosen field of industry. JAMES E. O'DONNELL His knowledge was gained by actual experience, and to this practical equipment of his mental fac- ulties he applied a strong mentality and analytical power of mind that has placed him in the very lead of men known as reliable and scientific experts. As an instance showing this recognition of his peculiar talent, Mr. O'Donnell was from its incep- tion until recently field manager of the American Oilfields Company, a company of a capital of twenty-five million dollars, and which is headed by Mr. B. L. Doheny, the celebrated oil operator both of Califor- nia and of Mexico. The suc- cess of this company is a familiar fact to all those in- terested in oil matters, and is ascribed in no small de- gree to Mr. O'Donnell's qual- ities. This is but one of the nu- merous undertakings in which Mr. O'Donnell has been engaged; in the past seven years he has been su- perintendent and consulting superintendent for the fol- lowing notable companies: The Cousins Oil Company, of McKittrick district; the Casmalia Oil Company, of Santa Maria district; the Whittier Oil Company, of McKittrick district; the San Souci Oil Company, the Mc- Kittrick Oil Company, the Grasse Casa Oil Company, Santa Maria district, and the McKittrick Oil Company, McKittrick district. Mr. O'Donnell is a very extensive oil land own- er; he has enviable properties in the Midway dis- trict, and the Elk Hills and McKittrick districts in Kern county, beside a large body of oil land in the Salt Creek district in Wyoming; and beyond tUs owns large blocks of stock and bonds of the Ameri- can Oilfields Company and the American Petroleum and the Mexican Petroleum Companies. Both the Union and the American Oilfields Com- panies have been purchasers of extensive oil tracts from him. Despite his business activities Mr. O'Donnell takes a keen personal interest in the af- fairs of Los Angeles and is a ready helper in all movements which tend to improve It as a city and a port. His energy and progressiveness make him a valued factor in the civic enterprises and he has figured largely in successful campaigns for the bet- terment of the Southern California metropolis. When not concerned In business affairs Mr. O'Donnell occupies himself for amusement with automobiles as an agreeable fad. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 261 HOMPSON, BEACH, Geol- ogist, Engineer and Capital- ist, was born in Brooklyn, New York, December 5, 1865, the son of Samuel and Emma Root (Hubbard) Thompson. His father, who was known in his day as "Rail- road Thompson," built the first railroad from New Orleans to Mobile, and also the first road from Chicago to He Milwaukee. He was a warm personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, served through the Civil War, and was master of trans- portation at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. He was killed in 1867 while laying out the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Beach Thomp- son came to California in November, 1889, and on February 26, 1896, was married in Berkeley to Miss Augusta Veeder. Of this marriage one child was born, Barbara Beach Thompson. He worked his way through the State Nor-/ mal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in the years '81-'84. From 1886 to 1889 he was a student at the University of Michigan, from which he was grad- uated with the degree of B. S. and a special diploma in geology. Coming to California in '89 he entered Stanford University, took an A. M. therefrom in 1892, and continued there for another year on his doctor's degree, as an instructor. Shortly after severing his connection with Stanford he entered the mining field, in the Fall of '94, in Calaveras County. There he became interested in water rights and in the development of electric power. After a thorough investigation, perceiving the possi- bilities of the Stanislaus River for this pur- pose, he organized the Stanislaus Electric Power Company, drew up the engineering plans, took options on the necessary proper- ties, and raised $6,500,000 in New York city. Subsequently through the financial panic, the failure of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, which had $1,500,000 on deposit of the com- pany's funds, and the California disaster of 1906, he lost control of the company, which was reorganized as the Sierra and San Fran- cisco Power Company. Mr. Thompson was the first to suggest the use of steel towers for the transmission of electric power. Like many another advanced thinker whose ideas seemed chimerical but were later found to be most practical, he was laughed at at first, especially in New York. The steel towers are now a complete success, sup- porting wires capable of transmitting at 104,000 volts pressure. Among Beach Thomp- son's valuable contribu- tion, both to the world of science and to that of practical affairs, is the huge Relief dam in Tuol- umne County. This is 140 feet high and 560 feet wide, built with a rein- forced concrete face on a rock fill. He also selected the site, and bought the ground in Kennedy's Meadows, for the Sierra and San Francisco Pow- er Company. He is now especially interested in wireless te- legraphy, and has the rights for the United States, as well as the ma- BEACH THOMPSON "ne rights, for the Paul- son Wireless, which is now operating between Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Stockton, Cal. ; Phoenix, Ariz. ; El Paso, and Fort Worth, Tex., and m Kansas City, Mo., and Portland and Medford, Ore. Mr. Thompson was a delegate to the National Convention that nominated Mr. Taft for the Presidency. He was educated for the profession of teaching, but was deflected from his course by politics. He has held the following offices in _ im- portant companies : Vice Pres. and Direc- tor Sierra & S. F. Power Co., Pres. and Di- rector Metropolitan Light & Power Co., Pres. and Director Tuolumne Water Power Co., Pres. Stanislaus Elec. Power Co., and Pres. San Domingo Mining Co., all of which prop- erties have been purchased by the United Rys. Inv. Co. He is a member of the Ameri- can Geographical Society, and his clubs are the Pacific-Union, University, Bohemian and the Menlo Country. 262 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY a^^^^ARNSEY, LEIGH G., Rail- road Contractor, Los An- geles, California, is a native of Binghamton, New York, where he was born March U, 1881, his father being L. T. Garn- sey, for many years identified with the largest railroad interests of the Southwest, and his mother Frances E. (Vail) Garnsey, October 24, 1907, he mar- ried Ruth Bulkley at Re- dondo Beach, California. They have one child, Ruth Garnsey. When Mr. Garnsey was four years old his parents moved to Cali- fornia, and he received his education from the public schools of Los Angeles County and from St. Matthew's School in San Mateo County. Very soon after Mr. Garnsey began the activi- ties of life he came to Southern California and as a surveyor entered into both road and railway construction work, an oc- cupation which has re- sulted most profitably to him and which has pro- duced some of the most important work in and about Los Angeles. It was first as a sur- veyor for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway that Mr. Garnsey formed the trend of mind and effort that has resulted so abundantly. Later he joined the surveying corps of the Pacific Electric Railway and then was made ticket agent for the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway, and when Mr. H. E. Hunt- ington purchased the Redondo Railway Mr. Garnsey's experience and ability brought him to the fore more than ever. Meanwhile he had formed the Garnsey Investment Company, of which he is a di- rector; he is also vice president of the Kal- arama Land Company. It was as the senior member of the firm of Garnsey and Pitzer, however, that Mr. Garnsey's most important work in Southern California was conducted. Southern California owes more, probably, to its road builders, the men who have con- LEIGH G. GARNSEY structed both the roadways and the railways, than to any other single class for the ad- vancement that has occurred. It is in this work that Mr. Garnsey has distinguished himself, his qualities as a con- structor being so readily recognized as to secure for him the awarding of the contract with the County for the construction of the eight miles of scientifically built highway, under the good roads sys- tem, between Redondo Beach and Wilmington; he also built the county highway between Los Angeles and Redondo Beach, a length of ten miles. Mr. Garnsey has done extensive construc- tion work for the Los Angeles Street Railway Company and for the Re- dondo Railway Company, and lately for the San Bernardino Interurban Railway Company. The street work of the firm is to be found in al- most every town in the southern part of the State, one striking exam- ple of the resources of the concern being shown in the eleven-mile sys- tem of storm drains con- structed in the City of Corona, which has been pronounced to be the best constructed and most scientifically designed ever undertaken in Southern California. It is evident from the preparations made and the projected plans that this record for efficiency will be duplicated in the good roads construction of the highway between Redondo and Wilmington, for the work is being done now by Mr. Garnsey alone, he having acquired the entire concern on May 22, 1911 ; it is his purpose to make this eight miles of roadway the most perfect known m the State and to be able to point to it as an enduring memento of capacity and technical resourcefulness. In social and business circles Mr. Garnsey is alike active; he is a member of the Cali- fornia Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Automobile Club, the Motor Boat Club and the Tuna Club, for he is very fond of outdoor life and a patron of all healthy sports. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 263 'DONALD, PATRICK JOS- EPH, manufacturer and con- tractor, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born in Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, 1863. His father was Lawrence McDonald and his mother Margaret (Foley) McDonald. He married Carrie Louise Mann at Fresno, Cali- fornia, January 28, 1891, and to them have been born four children, Lawrence Earl, Ethel May, Jennie Beal and David Eugene McDonald. He attended the Na- tional School of Ireland for three years and fol- lowed that with eight years at St. Michael's College, at New Ross, County Wexford. H i s textbook education fin- ished, he left college and became an apprentice in the carpenter and con- tracting business. After four years of service he received his license as a competent artisan and be- gan work when he was eighteen years of age. Soon after he became a licensed workman, Mr. McDonald bade farewell to the Emerald Isle and sailed across the sea to America. He first located in Chicago, Illinois, going to work in 1881 for a building firm P. J. McDonald known as Hennessy Brothers. With them he re- mained three years, then quit the construc- tion end of his trade to learn mill work. He was employed in the mill of Campbell Brothers, Chicago, and stayed with them three years, the last twelve months of which he was foreman of the cabinet department of the plant. With six years of actual experience in all branches of the business, Mr. McDonald went to the great Southwest. He located in San Diego, California, where he obtained em- ployment with the L. A. Fitch Company, builders, of that city. He stayed with them two years, and was foreman of construction and superintendent of the mill department. Upon leaving Fitch and San Diego, in 1889, he went to Fresno, California, where he was put in the dual position of foreman and estimator for the Mechanics' Planing ]\Iill Company, in which capacities he con- tinued for three years. From Fresno Air. McDonald moved to Madera, California, where he was given the superintendency of the Madera Flume and Trading Company. He was in charge of the factory and yards of the company for two years, but in 1895 he was offered the post of superintendent and estimator for the San Pedro Lumber Com- pany, at San Pedro, Cali- fornia, one of the largest lumber receiving ports in the United States and the place where Los An- geles gets an outlet to the sea. He became an im- portant factor in the business of the lumber company and remained there for five years. In 1900 Mr. McDon- ald bought the Los An- geles Planing Mill Com- pany. He is president and general manager and his wife is vice president. For five years after he purchased it the company operated in a small plant, but in 1905 a reincorpora- tion was effected with $200,000 capital and him- self and family as sole owners ; a new mill, equipped with modern machinery and covering sixty thousand square feet, was completed and the business moved. Under Mr. McDonald's management it has become one of the most important industrial concerns in Southern California. Four years ago Mr. McDonald added a general building and contracting department to his business, and today numerous beauti- ful residences and public buildings stand to the credit of the firm. Mr. McDonald is active in trade circles, being a member of the Master Builders' Association, Builders' Exchange, Credit Men's Association, Merchants and Manufac- turers' Association, Southern California Mill Owners' Association and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He holds memberships in the Elks, the Jonathan Club and the Newman Club of Los Angeles : he is also a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. 264 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY P. J. MORAN NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 265 Mi ORAN, P. J., contractor, industrial captain, capitalist. Salt Lake City, Utah, was born in Yorkshire, England, January 23, 1864, the son of Laurence Moran of Mayo Coun- ty, Ireland, and of Bridget (Dur- kin) Moran of County Sligo, Ireland. He married Dollie Shoebridge of Salt Lake City in 1891, and there are six children, four boys and two girls. He was left fatherless at the age of seven, and was compelled to go to work when only 10 years old. His education was acquired in the workshop, and by dint of hard individual study in later years. He came to America when 14 years old, land- ing in Baltimore in April, 1878. After four months in that city he went to Cincinnati, where he was apprenticed to a steam fitter. After mas- tering this trade he went to Chicago, and there worked as journeyman fitter until 1887, when he removed to Omaha. At this place he lingered a few months, and then went on to Salt Lake City, which has been his home ever since. The first two years in Salt Lake City he worked at his trade, and then his enterprise asserted itself and he went into business as a contractor in steam heating and ventilating. He began to prosper at once. He put in most of the heating plants in the public school buildings of Salt Lake City; also those of the new State University in Salt Lake, the Agricultural College at Logan, and the ma- jority of the big business blocks and residences, churches and schools throughout the state. In the year 1900 he was awarded the contract by the city for the installation of a new water works, a plant of the first magnitude, costing many millions of dollars. An important detail of it is the Big Cottonwood conduit, which flanks the Wasatch range overlooking Salt Lake Valley for a distance of ten miles. A man may walk erect through the conduit and it carries a large part of Salt Lake City's water supply. It is con- sidered one of the finest pieces of work in the United States. He entered the paving business in 1903, and has laid most of the asphalt on the streets of Salt Lake, of Ogden and a great deal in other cities of the West and Middle West. The P. J. Moran asphalt plant is one of the largest and most complete in America and employs an army of workmen. He put in the concrete masonry for the plant of the American Smelting and Refining Com- pany at Garfield, Utah, the largest smelter of its kind in the world. He built the power produc- ing plant for the Utah Light and Railway Com- pany. This plant is located in Weber Canyon, Utah, and is an immense piece of work, consist- ing of a stave pipe line 74 inches in diameter terminating in a generating station which de- velops many thousands of electric horsepower. He built the high line water conduit leading from City Creek Canyon, and he has done practically all the other work of enlargement on the Salt Lake City water supply system during the last twelve years. He is now engaged in the building of the Pacific Reclamation Company's irrigation dam to conserve the water of Bishop Creek near Wells, Nevada, a work which will result in the reclama- tion of tens of thousands of acres of land and the creation of a new city called Metropolis. He has been the constructor for many other enter- prises, some of equal and many of lesser im- portance than those mentioned. He is one of the five incorporators of the Nation- al Copper Bank of Salt Lake, already a powerful financial institution and is a big stockholder and director in the Keith-O'Brien Company, which operates Salt Lake City's largest department store. When concrete construction came into general use, and about the time he was given the con- tract for the concrete work on the Garfield smelt- er, Mr. Moran organized the Portland Cement Company of Utah. He is the principal stockhold- er and president. The company operates one of the largest cement plants in America, and em- ploys one of the largest forces of men in Utah. He invested in coal lands, and incorporated the Federal Coal Company, of which he is now vice president and general manager. He has invested heavily in Salt Lake real es- tate, and is considered one of the largest owners of property in the city. Mr. Moran has interested himself in politics. The Liberal party elected him to the State Senate in 1891 and he served out his term, making him- self felt in the framing of legislation. The same party chose him a member of the City Council in 1892, and he served for a term of two years from the fourth precinct of Salt Lake City. Since that time his big business interests have prevented him from accepting office, although always close- ly in touch with the affairs of the city and state. A summary of his business affiliations is as follows: President, general manager and sole owner of the P. J. Moran Contracting Company; director of the National Copper Bank, Utah; di- rector in the Keith-O'Brien Company, department stores; president of the Portland Cement Com- pany, Utah; vice president and general manager of the Federal Coal Company, Utah; and a director and stockholder in many other minor concerns, notably real estate concerns which operate his holdings. He is a director in the Alta Club of Salt Lake, and an active member of the Commercial Club. He spends much time and is well known in Los Angeles, and has been elected a member of the California Club of that city. 266 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ^wm ITCHEL, J. BURRIS, oil s lands and leases, Los An- 1 geles, California, was born at Denison, Texas, October 29, 1878. His father was Wil- liam N. Mitchel and his mother Lizzie (Daniels) Mitchel. He has been twice mar- ried. He married Hazel Scofield on Octo- ber 29, 1902, by whom there is one child, Burris Milo Mitchel. On June 2, 1910, he married Edna Tracy at Los An- geles. Mr. Mitchel was reared in Texas, where he resided up to the age of twenty years. He at- tended the public schools of Texas and graduated from the Denison, Texas, High School, June 5, 1896. At the outbreak of the Spanish - American war, in 1898, Mr. Mitchel was one of the first men to enlist for service. Be- ing an expert rifle shot and sharpshooter, and be- ing first sergeant of the Denison Riflemen at Denison, Texas, he was appointed third sergeant of Company K, in the Third Regiment, Tex- as Volunteers. This regiment was stationed at Fort Clark, Tex. ; Bay Saint Louis, Missis- sippi, and Fort Morgan, Alabama, and did not see any actual service. Shortly after returning from the war he moved to Los Angeles, California, settling there in January, 1899. He engaged in the real estate business in that city for a period of three years. In 1902, when the oil boom struck Bakersfield, California, Mr. Mitchel disposed of his Los Angeles interests and located in that city. He maintained a brokerage busi- ness, dealing in oil stocks, lands and bonds for a year. Business in all lines was enjoy- ing the height of prosperity during that year in the Bakersfield district and Mr. Mitchel J. BURRIS MITCHELL was among the earliest oil brokers to invest in that region. There came a lull in the Bakersfield district a year later and Mr. Mitchel returned to Los Angeles, where he reopened his ofifices with the view of resum- ing his former business. He continued in the real estate business for over six years, operating realty and building enterprises. In 1909 Mr. Mitchel decided to re-enter the oil business as an oil broker, also dealing large- ly in oil lands and leases. His knowledge of the oil industry in all its branches, acquired dur- ing his residence in the Bakersfield district, stood him in good stead. He financed several oil en- terprises in various parts of the State, his under- takings receiving the sub- stantial support of the oil men of the com- munity. In the early part of 1910 his business was in such a thriving condition that he entered upon a new field of development. He organized at that time the Midway King Pin Oil Company, of which organization he became Secretary. He became one of the predominant factors in making that organization a success. In the middle of the same year he organized and financed the J. Burris Mitchel Company, dealers in oil lands, leases, stocks and bonds. He is President of this latter organiza- tion, and his untiring work in the interest of that company has been largely respon- sible for the material progress that has at- tended that company. He is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce of Los Angeles and of the Chamber of Mines and Oil. He is a member of the Los Angeles Ath- letic Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 267 ERGUSON, DAVID WAL- TER, District Freight and Passenger Agent of the North Pacific Steamship Company, Los Angeles, Cahfornia, is a native of Clinton, Iowa, born January 19, 1875. His father was William Ferguson and his mother, Elnor Brown (Duncan) Fergu- son. Mr. Ferguson traces his descent through a notable line of ancestry, among whom is the famed King Fergus of Scotland. On July 15, 1899, he married Ruth Lillian Green in Los An- geles, by which union there were three children, David Halliday, (deceas- ed), Lillian and Donald Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson was ed- ucated in the Chicago public schools, and on moving to Winnipeg, Canada, continued his grammar schooling in that city. He then took a brief business course in the Winnipeg Business College. About this time Mr. Ferguson went to British Columbia, and located in Vancouver. He worked there for several years in a mercantile house, but decided to seek a more congenial climate and in 1893 he moved south to Los Angeles, California. He became as- sociated there with a large dry goods house in the capacity of salesman and remained in that line until he was appointed manager of the cloak and suit department. He made a signal success in this work, but after he had been with his firm for seven years a better opportunity offered itself and he resigned, going to Portland, Oregon. There he en- gaged in the cloak and suit business, continu- ing in it for a period of approximately a year and a half. Becoming tired of commercial work, he turned his attention to amusement enter- prises and returned to Los Angeles, where he managed several musical organizations. After traveling for three years and a half he again sought new fields. Quitting this in 1905, he entered the transportation business and after a year was appointed Southern California agent for the North Pacific Steamsihip Company, which operates a line of vessels between San Diego, California and Portland, Oregon. For several years he devoted his entire time to this work, but by the end of four years he had branched out in the steaniship business, assuming the representation of a number of foreign and domestic linos aid soon became known as one of the leading trans- portation men in the west. At the present time he is the Southern California representative for thirty standard steamship lines and in addition to this business is agent for the Marine Baggage and Ac- cident Insurance Compa- ny and the Wells Fargo Express Company's checks and money orders. Similarly he handles the American Express Com- pany's and the Domestic and Travelers' Checks and money orders, which are negotiable in all parts of the civilized world. Among the better known companies of which Mr. Ferguson is the representative are the Cunard Steamship Com- pany, which owns the mighty Lusitania and Mauretania, the White Star Company, the Hamburg-American Steamship Company, the French Line Steamship Company, the Italian Lin.e Co., and the Steamship Line. Other interests which he represents are the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company and the Compania Naviera Del Pa- cifico, a large corporation with headquarters in Mexico City. He is also a licensed Custom House broker for the Port of Los Angeles and is a notary public for Los Angeles County. Mr. Ferguson is a member of the National Geographic Society and of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Associa- tion and is one of those men willing to do anything for the furtherance of his city. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Forester, a Maccabee, and belongs to the Steamship Agents Asso- ciation and the Southern California Traffic Association. W. FERGUSON 268 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY RUN SWIG, LUCIEN N., Wholesale and Manufactur- ing Chemist and Druggist, 'Los Angeles, California, is a native of Montmedy, France. He was educated at the College of Etain, De- partment of Meuse, France, where he spent the early part of his life. He was married twice, his first wife having been Annie Mer- cer of Independence, Mo., who died in New Orleans in 1892. His second wife. Marguerite Wogan, is a native of New Or- leans. By his first mar- riage he has four children — three daughters, now married, and a son, who is connected with the Bruns- wig Drug Co. By his second marriage he has a daughter 11 years of age. On coming to America Mr. Brunswig made his first extensive effort in the commercial world by entering the wholesale and retail drug business. He subsequently estab- lished himself prominent- ly in the wholesale drug world at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1876. In 1882 he accepted a junior part- nership in the firm of Fin- lay & Brunswig at New Orleans. At the death of his partner, Mr. Finlay L. N. BRUNSWIG Mr. Brunswig became sole owner of the firm, and from that time up to 1903 the house was known as L. N. Brunswig & Company. In 1903 Mr. Brunswig disposed of his New Orleans business, at which time he retired temporarily for a much-needed rest, and en- joyed a two years' vacation in Europe. Mr. Brunswig has always given untiring- attention to the direction of his wholesale drug business, raising it to the first rank in New Orleans and indeed the entire South- west. He became known throughout the city as a progressive business man who partici- pated in all matter for the advancement of the community. He served four years as Police Commissioner in New Orleans, and was also vice president of the Athenee Louisianais, a valued member of the Louisiana His- torical Society, president of the French Soci- ety and vice president of the Board of Trade. In 1888 Mr. Brunswig determined to establish a branch of his New Orleans business in Los Angeles, which city was just beginning to attract attention as a distributing center. This he did, placing it under the direction of F. W. Braun, who remained managing part- ner, the interest of the latter being ultimate- ly purchased by Mr. Brunswig, who changed the name of the concern to the Brunswig Drug ■ Company, with branches at San Diego and Guaymas, Mexico. This venture of Mr. Brunswig early in 1888 in establishing a large wholesale drug house in Los Angeles seemed to less far-sighted men of affairs almost impossible of success. On the con- trary, the judgment of the founder was vindi- cated from the beginning, and it was by unusual en- ergy and aggressiveness that the stock and re- sources of the firm were constantly maintained at the required standard, in keeping with the rapid development of Los An- geles and its tributary territory. The Brunswig Drug Company has developed the largest wholesale drug business on the Coast, blending with it a complete manufac- turing chemical and pharmaceutical labora- tory. From the modest beginning established as a result of a thorough conception of what the future contained, its aflfairs have grown until now its annual business exceeds by a large margin the most sanguine expectations. Mr. Brunswig's residence, 2640 W. Adams street, Los Angeles, is one of the most beauti- ful places in the city. It has 180 feet front- age on "West Adams street, is 500 feet deep, laid out in handsome terraces, and the rear facade has 350 feet. The grounds are among the most attractive in Southern California, the residence itself being modeled after the style of the French Renaissance chateaux. One of the most charming features of this place is the Italian gardens, with flora of e-i-ery description. Mr. Brunswig is a mem- ber of the California Club of Los Angeles and of the Los Angeles Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 269 AMPBELL, CLYDE P., Oil Operator, 'Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, was born in Ingham County, Michigan, November 14, 1872, the son of Alexan- der F. Campbell and Ella (Phelps) Campbell. He is descended from an old Scottish house, his grandfather having been Sir James Camp- bell, who married Alice Forsythe in Dum- fries, Scotland, in 1832. Mr. Campbell's child- hood was spent in his na- tive state, but he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, when he was a boy and there attended the gram- mar and high schools. While going to school he sold papers on the streets, and at the age of fifteen years went to Quincy, Il- linois, where he worked for a year as assistant shipping clerk for a manu- facturing concern. After leaving there he returned to Michigan and went to the Michigan Agricul- tural College during the year of 1889. He then kept books for several firms and at the end of another year took up the study of telegraphy. Mas- tering this, he became as- sociated with the Postal Telegraph Company, and was with them for seven years, during six of which he was manager at Lansing, Michigan. Leaving the Postal Company, at the end of seven years, Mr. Campbell went to the Pennsylvania oil fields, where he invested in a small way. The boom had somewhat sub- sided, however, so he sold out his interests and went to Colorado, attracted by the rush to the Cripple Creek gold fields. A few years later, when automobiles came into use, he owned and operated a garage, but later dis- posed of this and confined himself to mining operations. During the ten years following his departure from Pennsylvania, he engaged in mining in Cripple Creek and other sections of Colorado, also in old Mexico. For six years of the time he was in Colorado he was a member of the Colorado Springs Min- ing Exchange. In 1908, Mr. Campbell deserted the mining regions of Colorado and headed for the oil CLYDE P. CAMPBELL fields of Southern California, which were just beginning a boom. He arrived in Los Angeles in February, 1908, and after six months spent investigat- ing and visiting numerous oil districts went into the oil business with C. F. Whittier, now President of the United Oil Company, and one of the most practical of the old time oil men in the state. Since 1909, he has been heavily interested in the oil fields of California. Mr. Campbell is now treasurer of the United Oil Company, and takes an active part in the operations of that com- pany. He is also one of the heavier stockholders in the Whittier-Campbell Company. Mr. Campbell and Mr. Whittier with other associates were the organizers of the United Oil Company and other companies which own and control more than 2000 acres in the Midway- McKittrick oil fields. The United Oil Company was incorporated on Novem- ber 19, 1909, for $2,000,- 000, under the laws of California. Mr. Campbell is inter- ested in other oil corpora- tions, among which are the Midnight Oil Compa- ny, of which he is teasurer ; the Rex Midway Oil Company, secretary and treasurer; the Middle West Oil Company, secretary and treasurer, and treasurer of both the United Oil Company and the Midway Central Oil Company. With his many interests in the oil fields, Mr. Campbell is necessarily one of the busi- est men in Los Angeles. He finds time, how- ever, to devote part of his attention to the propositions for the betterment of his city and has taken an active part in various move- ments for the improvement and upbuild- ing of Los Angeles, commercially and oth- erwise. He is a Mason and an Elk, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and of the Gamut Club of Los Angeles. He is fond of motoring and finds much pleasure when traveling from one field to another in making the trips by automobile. 270 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ■■ ■ HH^K— ^' ~^ H U,^J B ^ J 1 i/ ^^^^1 Iffr iliilrkit ^^l^^fc ,^^^ J [[2f!l ^^^^_^l WILLIS G. HUNT UNT, WILLIS GUSTAVUS, mer- chant, Los Angeles, California, was born on a farm in Unity, Me., in 1862. His father was Gustavus A. Hunt and his mother Ellen Susan (Ayer) Hunt. He married Miss Mariam Bskridge, March 23, 1911, at Los Angeles. Mr. Hunt received his education in the public schools of his native State, and left home at the age of 18, and went into a wholesale dry goods house in Portland, Maine. He remained with this company for five years, four years of which he was on the road as traveling salesman. After that he went to Boston and traveled for another dry goods house for four years more. At the age of 26 he went to Los Angeles, Cal., and engaged in the wholesale paper business, as manager of a branch house of the Pacific Roll Paper Company of San Francisco. After about one year he bought out the stock of the Pacific Roll Paper Company and engaged in the paper business on his own account. Mr. Hunt is president and general manager of the Pioneer Paper Company, but devotes most of his time to the oil refining and roofing paper manufacturing business, which is run in connec- tion with the paper company. He is one of the most progressive men of the city of Los Angeles, and the industry of which he is the head is one of great commercial im- portance. He has always taken part in any move- ment having for its object the betterment of his adopted city, and is one of the great Southwestern boomers. He is also interested in developing a large lemon and orange ranch at Upland, Cal., and owns much property. He is prominent in social circles in the city, holding memberships in the California Club, Jona- than Club and the Los Angeles Country Club. SAMUEL M. HASKINS SE^ ASKINS, SAMUEL MOODY, At- torney, Los Angeles, California, was born January 20, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the son of the Rev. Thomas Wilson Haskins iJ and Frances Emily Austin. Mr. Haskins was married April 15, 1902, to Eliza Bon- sall, of Los Angeles, and they have two children, Samuel M., Jr., and Barbara Haskins. Mr. Haskins spent his boyhood in New England and the Middle West and went to Los Angeles from Burlington, Vermont, when he was fifteen years of age. He entered the Los Angeles High School in the year 1887, and was graduated two years later. The succeeding year he entered the University of California, taking the academic course, and was graduated in 1893 with the degree of B. A. He decided upon law as a profession, and soon after leaving college took up his studies. After reading two years he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of California in the year 1895. He began practice at once, but gave it up tempo- rarily two years later, when he was appointed Clerk of the Los Angeles City Council, serving In this capacity until 1902. Upon the expiration of his term as Clerk of the Council he was engaged for legal work by the firm of Dunn and Crutcher, and he remained with them until 1905, when the firm name was changed to Bicknell, Gibson, Trask, Dunn and Crutcher. He continued in association with the new firm, and in 1908, when Judge Bicknell withdrew from It, be- came an active member. The name at that time underwent another change, being known as Gib- son, Trask, Dunn and Crutcher. He is a member of several social organizations in Los Angeles, including the California Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 271 ROY P. HILLMAN ILLMAN, ROY PALMER, banker, Los Angeles, California, was born at Mantorville, Minnesota, January 21, 1879. His father was William P. Hillman and his mother was Emma Palmer. At Los Angeles, October 22, 1902, he married Grace Laubersheimer. Mr. Hillman came to Los Angeles from his na- tive state in January, 1888, attending the gram- mar school, and later graduating from the high school in 1899. He was first employed by the De- partment of Electricity of Los Angeles, until 1900, when he accepted the position of messenger and clearing house clerk in the Los Angeles National Bank, which position with subsequent promotions he held until 1902. He then accepted the position of note teller with the German-American Savings Bank, which he held for a year, and in 1903 was made paying teller in the Southwestern National Bank of Los Angeles. In 1904, in connection with Charles E. Anthony and his son, Earle C. Anthony, Mr. Hillman in- corporated the Western Motor Car Company, and engaged actively in the automobile business until December, 1904. The banking business had taken great hold on Mr. Hillman, and in January, 1905, he again entered the employ of me German-Amer- ican Savings Bank, and later in the same year was elected assistant cashier. In 1909 he was elected secretary of this bank, and now holds the dual position of secretary and assistant cashier. Mr. Hillman was president of the Automobile Club of Southern California during the year 1910. Mr. Hillman is well known in financial circles and is president of the Crystal Salt Company. He is a member of the California, Union League and City Clubs of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley Country Club. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. MARK G. JONES ONES, MARK GORDON, presi- dent Merchants' Bank and Trust Company, Los Angeles, was born at San Francisco, December 22, 1859. His father was John Jones, a pioneer merchant, who went to Australia from England, and from Australia came to California with a shipload of merchandise, land- ing at Monterey in 1850. His mother was Doria Deighton- Jones. On February 11, 1885, he married Blanche E. McDonald, at Los Angeles. They have three children, Deighton G. McD., Mark McD., and Francis M. McD. Mr. Jones attended the old Los Angeles High school, and later entered St. Augustine's College, Benicia, Cal., graduating in 1879. After his graduation he went to Los Angeles to manage the estate of his mother. After her death (March, 1908) he was appointed adminis- trator. In 1889 Mr. Jones was elected to the office of county treasurer of Los Angeles County, and served until 1893. He was re-elected to the office, the term expiring January, 1907. He has the dis- tinction of being the only incumbent renominated for any county office up to that date. In 1906 he was the chief organizer of the Inglewood Park Cemetery Association, and was elected and still is its president and treasurer. In 1908 he was elected to and still retains the presidency of the Merchants' Bank and Trust Company, and is to- day its active head. He also is president of the Merchants' Building Company. He is now centering all the estate and his per- sonal interests at Los Angeles. He is a member of Ramona Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West; Knights Templar, L. A. Commandery, No. 9; Signet Chapter, Southern California Blue Lodge, and Al Malaikah Temple, Mystic Shrine. 272 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^r^ ^^^^B i#^-n 1 ^^^I^Ski^^^f^" .v^r* ^^^HMP' ^HHJHb^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B '^ ^-flSmS^^^I^ ■Bjg-' '■ . ^K>' B 1- I^^^^^^^F^ ^-'^ r B^ Hr^' ^ M^.^ \ '* '^^^Mm^m'- ^ tw* MA Va-' -'^^^*^?**' ^*-,.^»j " 1' M ^kl !^;:-'-i /ft ^ y^^"' F J -J . C. J. KUBACH NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST ^73 UBACH, C. J., Contractor, Los Angeles, California, was born in Germany in 1855. He received his education in the public schools of that coun< try, where he remained until eighteen years of age. As a boy he learned the contracting business from his father, who was a master builder in a small town, located near Heidelberg, Germany. He continued with his father until 1873, when a desire to see more of the world caused him to move to America. He went to Pittsburg, Pa., where an uncle was living, and there entered school for one year, learning the English language. He then returned to contracting work for a year and a half in Pittsburg. In 1875 he moved to San Francisco and obtained a position with a company known as Herrman and Von Bostle, builders. He remained in their employ for one year, when he moved to Virginia City, Nevada. There he started in as a millwright in the mining district. He followed that business for fifteen months, when he moved to Los Angeles in 1878. When Mr. Kubach arrived in Southern California there was little to denote the fu- ture city of 350,000 population, and the open- ing of a business in that day meant a long and hard struggle. He originally opened a small shop on East First street, but in 1884 he opened a larger one at First and Vine streets; by that time he was taking part in the construction of many of the largest build- ings put up in Los Angeles in those days. In 1885, shortly after Mr. Kubach had opened his business career in Los Angeles, he married in that city a young lady from a prominent family. There are two children, as a result of this union, Rose Cecilia and So- phie Octavia Kubach. He built the noted Stimson residence, one of the most beautiful homes of Los Angeles at the time of its construction. He made the acquaintance then of Mr. Stimson, for whom he erected a number of buildings, including the foundation of the present Stimson block, in which building he established his offices. A pioneer contractor of Los Angeles, he developed his business as the city progressed. He has taken contracts for many of the larg- est buildings in Los Angeles. In the sur- rounding towns he also has been active, hav- ing constructed blocks in San Diego, River- side, Redlands and many other places. On March 7, 1903, Mr. Kubach organized the C. J. Kubach Company, the present firm. of which he is president. His nephew, Mr. George Schneider, is his able assistant, secre- tary, treasurer and superintendent, having in his care a large part of the business end of that organization. Before the above date the firm was known as C. J. Kubach. In 1904 he moved his offices to the Pacific Electric building, where he has been located since. His business kept pace with the great growth of the city, and as the concrete and steel structures became an assured success, Mr. Kubach became one of the efficient con- tractors in that line. He built the magnificent Alexandria Hotel Annex, one of the finest examples of a modern hostelry in the West. He has erected numerous buildings for the Los Angeles Railway Company, built the First National Bank building of Riverside and a number of buildings at Del Mar, San Diego County. He also constructed the Wright & Callender building and the Chris- tian Science Church building of Los Angeles. During his years of work as a contractor in Los Angeles, Mr. Kubach has constructed buildings the total value of which reach the enormous sum of $8,000,000. Had he been a man of ordinary ability, he would have been satisfied with Los Angeles and its environs as a field for his labors. But today, in look- ing over the work that has been accomplish- ed by him during the thirty years spent in Southern California, buildings of the high- est type of workmanship are found through- out that region as far north as the Tehach- api Pass and as far south as San Diego, which will stand for many years as monu- ments of his constructive ability. He has built blocks in such progressive cities as Riverside, Redlands, Santa Barbara, Pasa- dena and many of the beautiful centers that are typical of Southern California. In 1904, on the organization of the K. and K. Brick Company, because of his exceptional record as a contractor and because of his prominence in the field of building and con- struction, Mr. Kubach was made president of that corporation. He became one of the org'anizers of that company and since 1904 has had its management and chief business affairs entirely in his hands. The growth of this corporation from a small organization to one of the largest brick concerns in South- ern California, with a capitalization of $120,000, was due largely to the excellent management of Mr. Kubach. He was one of the organizers of the Rice Ranch Oil Com- pany and is its present president. Mr. Kubach is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Jonathan Club of 'Los Angeles. 274 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ANSBURGH, GUST AVE ALBERT, Architect, San Francisco, California, was born at Panama, January 7, 1876, the son of Simon Laza- rus Lansburgh and Rebecca (Pyke) Lans- burgh. His paternal ancestors were Ger- mans, while on the maternal side he is of Portuguese and Spanish descent. S. L. Lans- burgh, his father, was one of the largest ship chandlers on the Pacific Coast, and a maternal grandfather was the au- thor of the famous "Pyke's Catechism." Mr. Lansburgh was married in San Francisco, in June, 1908, to Miss Irene Muzzy, the children of which marriage are Ruth and Lawrence Lans- burgh. From 1884 to 1892 he attended the Grammar School at San Francisco and then spent a year at the Cogswell School and another at the Lowell High. In 1894 he entered the University of Califor- nia, but left there in 1896 to travel in Europe. He became a student in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, of Paris, France, in 1901, took the regular course of architecture, painting, modeling, sculpture, engineering, the history of archi- tecture, etc., and was graduated in 1906, with the degree of "Architecte diplome par le Gou- vernement." In his last year there he won the medal of the Society of French Architects which was awarded at the Grand Salon of the Champs Elysees. While in Europe he traveled extensively, partly as a student and partly for mere pleas- ure, and continued this combined course in the Orient. Returning to San Francisco at the end of May, 1906, shortly after the fire, he began the active practice of his profession, under unusually auspicious conditions. Mr. Lansburgh's first important works in San Francisco are the two Gunst buildings, one at the corner of Third and Mission streets, and the other at Geary and Powell. In the former especially he has followed his G. ALBERT LANSBURGH preference for the modern French Renais- Francisco. sance, and has achieved a notable triumph therein. Among his other noteworthy struc- tures are the San Francisco Orpheum, San- ford Sachs Building, Lumberman's Building, Newman & Levinson's, the restoration of the Temple Emanuel, the Hotel Manx and the Gunst residence. Besides these he has fitted up the Emporium, won the competition for the Concordia Club and B'nai B'rith Building, and designed many im- posing mausoleums in San Mateo County. He has recently completed the new Orpheum in Los Angeles, thereby carrying oS another artistic palm. An attempt, largely successful, to express purely American ideas is a striking characteristic of Mr. Lansburgh's re- cent work. In other words he is trying to de- velop a strictly American form of architecture. A fondness for color, pos- sibly inherited from his Spanish and Portuguese forbears, is evident in the polychrome to which his taste seems to run. A conspicuously good ex- ample of his polychrome work is the new Los An- geles Orpheum. He vir- tually introduced this style to the far West, but though he favors it, together with stone, terra cotta and the like, he believes in adapting the material to the needs, and especially in making the character of the building show the use to which it is to be put. Always artistic, with a decided architectural bent, he has concentrated on his specialty to the con- considerable gain of San Francisco. He is a skillful musician and an accomplished decorator. It was he who designed the decorations for the Taft Banquet given at the Palace Hotel on the eve of the ceremonies of the ground breaking for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He was for- merly an acrobatic star of the Olympic Club and a champion wrestler, but now limits his ath- letic enthusiasms to automobiling and golf. ;\[r. Lansburgh is a member of the Beaux Arts Society, Diplome Society, San Francis- co Chapter American Institute of Architects, Concordia Club and Argonaut Club of San NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 275 AW, DR. H A R T L A N D, President of the Viavi Com- pany, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., was born near Sheffield, England, July 7, 1858, son of Crossley Law and Rebecca (Brown) Law. In 1866 his parents brought him to Chicago, Illinois, where, in December, 1884, he was married to Miss Ada Ward. The children of this marriage are Harold Ward and Hubert Ed- ward Law. ■ He attended the public schools of Chicago, Northwestern College at Xaperville, 1879-89, and the old Chicago Univer- sity, 1881-92, paying his way through college by selling SiU b scription books. He was graduated from Hahnemann Medi- cal College, San Francis- co, in 1893. In 1884 Hartland Law and his brother, H. E. Law, came to San Fran- cisco and engaged in the publishing business under the firm name of Law, King & Law. Subse- quently the firm moved to Chicago and purchased the control of the West- ern Publishing Company, but disposed of this a lit- tle later. In 1886 Dr. Law and H. E. Law returned to San Francisco, and here they originated and developed the Viavi System of Treat- ment, in connection with which they have built up the world-wide business of The Viavi Company, Inc. Both Dr. Law and his brother regard Viavi — The Viavi System of Treatment, a high development of domestic medication- — as their greatest achievement and the most essential part of their own de- velopment and career. While Dr. Law has made Viavi his life work, he has been active in public and quasi- public matters. He was one of the organiz- ers of the First Baptist Church of Berkeley, served a number of years as a director of the San Francisco Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation and was chairman of the finance com- mittee that paid off the debt on the old As- sociation building, the burning of the mort- gage on which by President Roosevelt was an interesting ceremonial event. He was also a member of the original committee of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- tion, as well as of the finance committee that raised the money to secure it, and it was largely through the efforts of the Law Broth- ers that the Harbor View section was made possible as a site for Exposition. Dr. Law was a member of the oringinal Greater San Francisco committee; he represent- ed the Merchants' Asso- ciation on the committee that secured the liigh- pressure water system for San Francisco. He built the Crossley build- ing. Seventeen days be- fore the earthquake and fire he and his brother, H. E. Law, exchanged the Crossley and Rialto buildings and other prop- erty for the Fairmount Hotel, at that time un- completed. The fire add- ed nearly two million dol- lars to the cost of comple- tion. The opening of this hostelry was celebrated on the first anniversary of the fire by the most numerously attended ban- quet ever served in a San Francisco hotel. Later DR. HARTLAND LAW ^^^7 exchanged back ^he I^airmount with Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, acquiring in the exchange twelve blocks of land adjoining the Fort Ma- son military reservation, for which they have planned extensive harbor improvements Since the fire, also, Dr. Law has built a resi dence in Presidio Terrace, the Alder Sanits- rium building, has rebuilt the Rialto, lad. with his brother, has built the Viavi build- ing, on Pine street. All of these are costly buildings and architecturally are ornaments of San Francisco. Dr. Law is one of those men who has thrown every dollar of his means into the reconstruction of the Bay City, as much out of loyalty as for reasons of investment, and his faith has been justified. He has been president of the Presidio Golf Club, is now president of the San Fran- cisco Tunnel Association, Presidio Terrace Association, director of the Merchants' As- sociation, a member of the Union League, and a thirty-second degree Mason. 276 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY HANDLER, CHARLES L., Attorney at Law, Los An- geles, California, was born at Davenport, Iowa, on May 30, 1878. He married Gisela Pluemer at Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 6, 1906, two children being born as a result of this union, Sarah Fischer and Davis Pluemer Chandler. Mr. Chand- ler studied in the grammar and high schools of Pueblo, Colo- rado, up to 1892, when he entered the University of N e b r a sk a Preparatory School. He remained there until 1894, when he returned to Denver, Colo- rado, studying at the Woodworth Business Col- lege of that place. He entered the University of Denver in 1896, being graduated from that in- stitution in 1900 with the degree LL. B. The fol- lowing year, being desir- ous of finishing his law education with some Eastern studies, he en- tered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, receiving the degree LL. B. in 1901. Mr. Chandler was admitted to the Bar in Denver, Colorado, in January, 1900, and dur- ing the latter part of 1901 and part of 1902, he was in the employ of Fillius and Da^•is, Denver attorneys. From this employment in Denver, Colo- rado, he went to New York City, becoming associated with the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Ironton, Ohio, owned and con- trolled by his uncle, the late F. C. Fischer, prominent in the lumber world. He pur- chased and became an expert in the exam- ination of timber land titles for that company throughout the Southern States, visiting a number of the famous timber regions of the Southeastern and Northwestern portions of the United States, and studying the timber conditions of the country. E 9 1 IF '^^^^1 Bi ft ^^^^ ^^^^IHH Ih^^ ' ' ■^tSIy^k^j. ^^^M Wli / =^ W^SmSBaM i./ ^ ^^^^iiHB ^H / ^^'^l ^^S^BKka^ u ^fjiltttt'ii^f^ ^^^^maS^^M ^^B^ ftjifei* jff ^95^^HSsafikMl^Hn5»£ ^^^Pl^l ^^MmtE~-~S='^M sHU^hbHIR^^ ^^^^> ^I^Bi m nn CHAS. L. CHANDLER His employment with the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company brought him in touch w'th one of the vital questions of the day, that of conservation of the natural resources, partic- ularly in the field of timber and forest re- serves. In 1903 he resigned his position in Ohio, settling in Los Angeles in September of that year. He again resumed his legal work, becoming connected with the firm of Cochran and Williams, attorneys, and for two years following he con- tinued with that firm. In 1906, Mr. Chandler became a member of the firm of Williams, Gou Ige and Chandler, attorneys at law. This firm has a large practice in Los An- geles, being attorneys for a number of the larger corporations and organi- zations of that city, among which are the Pa- cific Mutual Life Insur- ance Company, the Broadway Bank and Trust Company, Citizens' Trust and Savings Bank, Needles Light and Power Company, Home Savings Bank, Seaside Water Company and Los Angeles Abstract and Trust Company. The firm now maintains a large practice, with Mr. Chandler as one of the active attor- neys of the organization. He is largely in- terested in a number of Los Angeles enter- prises such as the Seaboard Land Security Company, of which organization he is the President. He is Vice President of the Mid- way Light and Power Company, the Needles Light and Power Company, and holds a sim- ilar position with the Seaboard Metal works. His extensive experience in corporation work makes him a valuable member of the firm. He is a member of the Westlake Lodge, F. and A. M., Scottish Rite, and has been honored with the Presidency of the Cornell University Club of Southern California, of which he was one of the organizers. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 277 INDLEY, ALBERT, President of the Order of Railway Employees' Publishing Company, and of the Order of Railway Employees' Fi- nance Society, San Francisco, was born at Clayton, Indiana, June 13, 1864, the son of Milton Lindley and Mary B. (Banta) Lindley. His father, of Scotch-English origin, was born in North Carolina of Quaker parentage, but before reaching manhood went to Indiana where he became a farmer, merchant and bank- re. In 1866 the family moved to Minneapolis whence, in 1875, they came to Los An- geles. There Milton Lind- ley was one of the leading citizens, for several years County Treasurer, later a member of the County Board of Supervisors and Chair- man of its Finance Commit- tee. The mother of Albert Lindley is of Dutch family, her Holland ancestors hav- ing settled on Manhattan Island in 1659. Her grand- father and three of her un- cles were in the Revolu- tionary War. Others of her forbears fought in the War of 1812, as well as in the war with Mexico, and her four brothers were officers in the Civil War. She is still living with her eldest daughter in Los Angeles, at the advanced age of eighty- two; and her broad charities and graciousness have won for her the love and veneration of the many of several generations who have been blessed with her acquaintance. For several years Albert Lindley attended the grammar school and high school of Minneapolis. In 1880 he entered the University of Southern Cal- ifornia, in Los Angeles, where he was one of the first students enrolled, and whence he was grad- uated in 1883, with the degree of B. A. The first few years after graduation he was con- nected with his brother, Hervey, in the lumber business in Iowa and Dakota. Returning to Los Angeles in 1887 he engaged in fruit raising, farming and in a variety of other activities. From 1894 to 1900 inclusive he was keeper of the arch- ives in the Department of State; but having pur- chased the Southern Hotel of Bakersfield in the latter part of the '90's he shifted thither the scene of his operations. While there he took an active part in political and fraternal matters, as an out- let for his dynamic energies, as well as for the ad- ALBERT LINDLEY vancement of his own and his associates' interests. In 1902 he disposed of his Bakersfield holdings, shortly thereafter becoming superintendent of the construction of the Klamath Lake Railroad, and later superintendent of the operations of the line. His next post was that of Secretary of the State Agricultural Society. This he held for two years, and in 1905 was appointed by Governor Pardee State Building and Loan Commissioner, but toward the end of 1910 resigned to devote himself to the Order of Railway Employees, and the management of his own properties. On January 1, 1910, Mr. Lindley took charge of the Railway Employees' Maga- zine and the financial affairs of the Order. Since then both have been moving for- ward toward the large des- tiny he has planned for them. He has overcome the handi- cap imposed by the fact that the Order lacked the authorization of the railroads to operate over their lines and to accept paymasters' deduction orders from em- ployees, until today this priv- ilege has been extended to the Order by more than thirty railways, including four transcontinental sys- tems. He purposes to aid in bringing fifty thousand men into the O. R. E. within the next two years, and ultimate- ly to establish lodges in every great railway center from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Mr. Lindley has been prominent in the councils of the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company ever since its inception. He was one of the original members ot fhe Committee of Ways and Means, and took a leading part in the campaign for the bond issue that made the Exposition possible. In the latter respect his work was especially impor- tant in Los Angeles County and throughout South- ern California, where in a few weeks he changed the whole sentiment and was perhaps the chief factor in winning the day for the bonds by a large majority. Was member Reception Committee dur- ing President Taft's visit to San Francisco. Beyond the foregoing activities, his outside interests include investments in industrial stocks, real estate and farming in various parts of Cali- fornia. His clubs are the Union League, Common- wealth, Elks and the Lagunitas. He is a public- spirited, generous citizen, a hard fighter, when fighting is necessary, a delightful companion, a true friend and an able financier. 278 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ERRY, CLARENCE JESSE, ^ Mining and Oil Operator, Los Angeles, California, was born at Little Lake, Mendocino County, California, June 23, 1867. His father was William J. Berry and his mother Annie Martha (Coates) Berry. He was married to Ethel Dean Bush at Sel- ma, Fresno County, Cal., on March 15, 1896. Mr. Berry received his education in the pub- lic schools of his native State and devoted the early part of his life to farming. He moved with his family from Mendo- cino County to Fresno County when he was about seven years old, and there he was reared. He worked on his father's farm as a boy and later became a farmer on his own account, at one time having the largest wheat acreage in that entire section. Mr. Berry was born with the blood of pio- neers flowing through his veins, however, and when he was still a young man the desire to hunt gold became so strong in him he gave up his great wheat fields and headed for the "Frozen North" — the Klondike country — in 1894, long before the Klondike boom. When Mr. Berry pointed his way to the barren ice fields of the Far North he had no exact destination in view. His journey was that of a pioneer, beset with all the perils and difficulties of an unopened country. He made his way, after an arduous trip, to what is known as Forty Mile, now an important little Alaskan city, but at that time hardly more than a trading post. He immediately commenced his search for the precious metal, but found this task quite as difficult as the trip itself had been, for there were no saw- mills in the interior of Alaska at that day, and C. J. BERRY own crude machinery. After staking out a claim, he whipsawed enough lumber for sluice boxes, hired a few shovelers and went to work. This claim, which was worked with no better facilities than had been those of the pioneers in California, showed paying quan- tities in a short time, and for nearly two }ears before the rush to the Klondike Mr. Berry was getting out gold in large quantities in Alaska. He worked un- remittingly until the lat- ter part of 1895, and then, with a fortune in nuggets to his credit, made his way back to civilization. It was on this trip he married, in Selma. He wedded Miss Bush on March 13, 1896, and that night started on what is perhaps one of the most remarkable wed- ding journeys in history. Instead of seeking the ur- ban luxuries of the big cities, the^r directed their steps to the frozen fields of Alaska, and it was here that the bride showed herself of nerve and hardihood almost equal to that of her husband. They got as far as Forty Mile, prepared to work on the original claim of Mr. Berry, but found the camp excited over reports of a big strike in the vicinity of Dawson City, the district which afterwards became known to the world as the Klondike, made by Mc- Cormick, the well-known Yukon trader. In- stead of working his old claim, Mr. Berry decided to go to the new field. There was no means of transportation except the canoe of the Indian, so, taking one of these, which he had to pole for hundreds of miles up- stream, Mr. Berry set out alone, determined to get into the much-praised new country as soon as possible. It was one of the most daring and hazard- he had to make his own lumber and build his ous undertakings in his entire career. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 279 Mrs. Berry, who had been left at Forty Mile, waited a long time for his return, but receiving no tidings of him decided to fol- low into the unknown regions farther north. Accordingly, she purchased all the provisions she could in Forty Mile, and when the first steamboat came up the river with the open- ing of navigation in the fall, boarded it. Aft- er a good many days the steamer came upon the lone miner tirelessly poling his way up the stream. He was taken aboard and the trip to Dawson continued. Reaching Dawson, Mr. Berry at once staked out a claim. He located on what later became famous as the richest gold creek in the world, El Dorado, the name being given it by the Californian in memory of that other great gold field of his native State. There Mr. Berry located several claims and he im- mediately began sinking holes. He was the first man to get a shaft down to bedrock — the first man to strike pay dirt — and his discov- ery was the cause of the real rush to the Klondike. Mr. Berry's find showed that El Dorado Creek had the richest gold deposits ever dis- covered in a similar area, and in the fall of 1896 he had taken out a tremendous amount of the metal. He returned to the United States with nuggets in such abundance that the entire world was startled, and his re- ports of the country started the most stu- pendous gold stampede in the history of the world, not even excepting the days of '49 in California. Despite his great good fortune, Mr. Berry retained his equilibrium, refusing to be swept off his feet by the excitement, and from the primitive mine which brought the first gold out of El Dorado Creek he built the modern mining plants which still are producing in large quantities. His mining property known as the Mammoth Mine has eleven miles of ditches and embraces more than five miles of "pay dirt" along Mammoth Creek. This mine is equipped with the largest hydraulic plant in Alaska and is regarded as one of the greatest properties in that country today. Another great mine which is owned by Mr. Berry is located on Eagle Creek, Alaska. After his many years of hard work in the sterile mining country, Mr. Berry, having thoroughly modernized his business and placed his properties in perfect working or- der, decided to leave the active work to others and seek a more congenial place of residence. He picked out Los Angeles for his home and there he has been located since. About the time he located in Los Angeles the country was just awakening to the great oil possibilities in California, and there, as in the golden pioneer days of Alaska, Mr. Berry was stirred by the desire to conquer. He was among the first investors in oil lands, and since has organized three separate oil companies. Mr. Berry was one of the first men in the McKittrick field to get a well down to bedrock, and he was rewarded by a gusher which spouted the product high above the casing. This well marked the beginning of the recent oil boom in the San Joaquin Valley. That well was followed by others, and with each new success Mr. Berry's name has ■grown until he is now known as one of the most extensive mining and oil operators in the United Sates. His interests include the two great mines in Alaska, the C. J. Company (oil), the Ethel D. Company (oil), the Mammoth Oil Com- pany and the Eagle Creek, also an oil cor- poration, all located in the Kern River dis- trict, California. Another enterprise is the Berry Development Company of Fresno, Cal. The growth of his various operations has had a natural bearing upon the development of the State's resources in general, and also upon the commercial advancement of Los Angeles proper, because of the tremendous amount of business transacted through that city. In addition, Mr. Berry has aided in many movements to improve the city. Mr. Berry is a member of the Union League Club of San Francisco, Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Tananah Club of Fair- banks, Alaska. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons of Selma, Cal. ; a life mem- ber of the Mystic Shrine of Ishlam Temple, San Francisco; of the Scottish Rite of Fresno and the Knights Templar of the same city. 28o PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY DR. E. R. BRADLEY RADLEY, EDWARD RICKEY, Physician and Surgeon, Los An- geles, California, was born at Polsom, Cal., February 24, 1865, the son of Cyrus H. Bradley and ij Cordelia A. Bradley. On April 18, 1894, he married Virginia Burton Williamson at Los Angeles. There was born one child, Gertrude Muriel Bradley. Dr. Bradley was taken to Los Angeles, in 1873, and attended school in that city. He graduated from high school in 1885 and entered the College of Medicine, University of Southern California, at Los Angeles. He was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1888, and put in the next year at the Bellevue Medical College (N. Y.),. receiving a de- gree there in 1889. He then filled a vacancy on the staff of Bellevue Hospital, but resigned to re- turn to Los Angeles and enter private practice. Most of his work has been devoted to children. For ten years after returning to Los Angeles, he acted as physician to the Los Angeles Orphans' Home and when his growing practice would not permit him to continue actively in the work of caring for the little sufferers, he served on the consulting staff. At the same time he looks after several smaller institutions. A lover of his profession and especially of that branch including infants and children, he spent much time in traveling and visiting the children's hospitals in the Old World, studying methods of the institutions. He has also written a number of papers on diseases of children and delivers lectures at mothers' gatherings in which he has given valu- able instruction on the care of children. He is a member of the Los Angeles County, Cal- ifornia State and American Medical Associations. He also belongs to the Federation Club, L. A. Cham- ber of Commerce and the Y. M. C. A. W. C. PATTERSON ATTERSON, WILSON CAMP- BELL, Banker, Los Angeles, Cal., born in Greenfield, O., Jan. 10, 1845. The son of Robert D. and Margaret (Hollyday) Patterson. Married Virginia Monette Moore, Jan. 8, 1874, at Chillicothe, 0. There are two chil- dren, Ada, now Mrs. Harry R. Callender, and Hazel, now Mrs. John Stuart. Mr. Patterson attended district school until fif- teen, then went to Salem Academy, Salem, 0., where he was a classmate of Senator Foraker. At eighteen he enlisted in Company A, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, serving from July 4, 1863, to close of war. Re-entered Salem Academy for three months. Went to work as clerk in offices of County Clerk, County Treasurer and Probate Judge, Chillicothe, O. In 1869 became bookkeeper for wholesale gro- cery firm, and with them to Jan. 26, 1888, when his health broke down and he went to Los Angeles. There became member of wholesale commission firm of Curtis & Patterson, afterward W. C. Patter- son Co. In November, 1898, was elected Pres. L. A. National Bank, and continued as such until consoli- dation with First National Bank, when he was made Vice Pres. of the new bank, a place he still holds. Is director and officer in other important corpora- tions. Was trustee, Whittier Reform School; mem- ber, Cal. State Board of Charities and L. A. Board of Education; director, L. A. Public Library; twice delegate to Washington in fight for free harbor; Pres. L. A. Clearing House and Pres. Chamber of Commerce. He is a member and for two years was Pres. University Club; was Pres. Sunset Club, member Union League, Annandale Country and California Clubs, Municipal League, Archaeological Institute and other organizations. He is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 281 DR. GUY COCHRAN 1 OCHRAN, DR. GUY, Physician and ^r\A Chief Surgeon of the San Pedro, ^^ j Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail- road, Los Angeles, California, is a ^ I native of Illinois, born September A ,^ 4, 1873. He is the son of Dr. Wil- liam George Cochran and Anna M. (Hunt) Cochran. At San Francisco, June 7, 1899, he married Miss Alice I. Cowen. They have two children, Carolyn and Guy Cochran, Jr. Dr. Cochran, having moved to Los Angeles in 1880, attended both the public and high schools of that city. He studied at Lawrenceville Preparatory School, N. J., in 1891; entered Stanford University, 1892, graduating, 1896, with degree A. B.; went to College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity. He received his M. D. in 1900. Dr. Cochran next became resident surgeon at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, two years. Dur- ing that time he was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. At the end of that period he took a year's work at the St. Mary's Children's Hospital, New York, as interne, June, 1903. He then spent several months abroad at medical clinics, returning to America and Los Angeles in 1903. He was appointed assistant chief surgeon of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, and two years later chief surgeon. He is chief sur- geon of the Pacific Telephone Company and of the Los Angeles division of the Standard Oil Company. Between 1902 and 1903 he was assistant in physiology for the College of Physicians and Sur- geons. He Is a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation, the Los Angeles County and State Medical Society, the Pathological Society, Symposium So- ciety, Bellevue Alumni Association and others. His clubs are the California, Annandale Coun- try, Los Angeles Country and Cragg's Country. GRANT JACKSON ACKSON, GRANT, Attorney, Loa Angeles, California, was born at Petaluma, Sonoma County, Cali- fornia, June 13, 1869, the son of William Jackson, and Mary C. (Francis) Jackson. He is de- scended from an old family of Southerners, his father and great-grandfather having been soldiers. The latter, Robert Jackson, was captain of a com- pany of Tenesseeans in the War of 1812, and his father was a major of Missouri Volunteers who fought for the Union in the Civil War, and represented his county in the Legislature in 1855. The Major was a delegate to the Constitutional Con- vention called by his cousin, the Governor of Mis- souri, for the purpose of passing a secession ordi- nance. He here helped to defeat the efforts to carry Missouri out of the Union, and assisted in deposing the disloyal State Government and the election of a set of officers loyal to the nation. He fought through the entire war. After the Civil War, Major Jackson moved to California, and there the son was born. The younger Jackson was educated in the public schools of Lom- poc and Santa Barbara, California. In 1887 he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. W. C. Stratton, a pioneer lawyer then living at Santa Barbara, and in 1891 was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of California. He practiced at Santa Barbara until 1902, when he moved to Los Angeles. Since his entry into the life of that city he has had a fruitful practice and has been a conspicuous figure. His offices are at Suite 918 Security Build- ing. He is a Republican In politics, of progressive tendencies; is a member of the Municipal League, Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Mines, the City Club, and is a Native Son of the Golden West. His clubs are the Gamut and Union League of Los Angeles. 282 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OOK, CARROLL, Attorney, Ex-Judge of the Superior Court, San Francisco, was born in that city January 15, 1855, the son of EHsha Cook, a prominent attorney, and Willametta (Hoff) Cook of New York City. His paternal ances- tors were Hollanders, and on the maternal side his descent is partly English and Ger- man. Judge Cook has been twice married, his first wife being Llena Stow, daugther of the Hon. W. W. Stow of San Francisco, and of that union there were born two daughters, Elsie and Houston Cook. On April 10, 1901, he married a second time, his wife be- ing Besse Grim, daughter of A. K. Grim of Alameda County, California. Judge Cook received his first mental training in the well-known private school of George Bates in San Francisco. In 1870, when he was 15 years of age, he left the Boys' High School to enter the St. Augustine Academy at Benicia, but was obliged by the death of his father to leave six months before gradua- tion. For two years he tried his hand at clerking, and then went to Union College, Schenectady, New York, for a year, at the end of which period he moved to Buiifalo, where he began the practical study of law in the office of his uncle, Josiah Cook. Re- turning to California, he continued his studies under the observant eyes of Judge Delos Lake, and in 1874 was admitted to the bar. The following year he began active practice, which he continued with encouraging success until 1884, when he was appointed First As- sistant United States Attorney for the term of four years. This post he resigned in 1888 and resumed his private practice until 1896, in which year he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of California. At the end of his first term of six years he was re-elected for six years more, and on the expiration of this second term — January 1, 1909, he again became a private in the legal ranks, and has been fighting hard therein ever since. CARROLL COOK Judge Cook's official career, as well as his practice, has been lime-lighted by cases whose dramatic and legal interest have attracted na- tional, if not worldwide, attention. In the famous trial of Cordelia Botkin he rendered the first decision for a crime committed in two States, a ruling which the United States Supreme Court upheld. In the case of the "Gas Pipe Thugs" one culprit pleaded guilty, and Judge Cook sen- tenced him to the gallows without a jury trial. Again the Appellate Court affirmed him. He also sentenced the "crim- inal of the century," The- odore Durrant, in the no- torious belfry murder trial. In the famous case of John McNulty, who had received the death penalty from the Superior Court, and for whom the gallows had been erected eight different times, Judge Cook acted as his counsel, stayed the execu- tion, finally carried the case to the Supreme Court of the United States and saved his cli- ent's neck. A term of six years in the Penitentiary was the result. It has been often pre- sumed that the judicial mind is of a fiber different from that of the barrister, that the qualities which make for success on the bench are op- posed to those required at the bar. To this rule, however, if it be one, the career of Car- roll Cook is a shining exception. His record as Judge and advocate have made an indelible impression on the legal history of California. Since his retirement from the bench Judge Cook's practice has been confined largely to the other side of the question — to the defense of the accused. With this rapidly expanding clientele, and his duties as chief counsel of the Chinese Six Companies, he is a very busy attorney. He finds relaxation in the manage- ment of his beautiful ranch of 1700 acres, in Sonoma County, where he raises blooded stock, in hogs, cattle and "blue ribbon win- ners" at the bench shows. Judge Cook is a member of the Union League, Knights Templar, Scottish Rite, Eastern Star, Eagles and the Druids. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 283 ARREN, CHARLES A, oil operator and capitalist, San Francisco, was born in San Francisco, April 23, 1885, the son of Charles A. and Ada (Smith) Warren. Of English origin on both sides of the house, his ancestors have been patriotic Americans for generations; and con- spicuous among those who distinguished them- selves on the battle field was General Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill. Charles A. Warren, Sr., came to California about the year 1861, where he became one of the leading con- tractors of the State. His son, Charles, may be said to have grown up in the business, in which he has proved himself an able partner. On September II, 1907, he was married in San Francisco to Miss Claudine Cotton, daughter of Judge Aylett P. Cotton, and is the father of one child, Claudine Warren. Mr. Warren's early edu- cation was obtained in the public schools of San Fran- cisco, including the Har- rison Primary and the Pa- cific Heights Grammar School. He then entered Santa Clara College, which completed his preparation for the University of California. He was a student at the latter institution from 1903 to 1906, in the College of Agriculture, but left before graduation to become a junior partner in the Charles A. Warren Company, and in the Warren Improvement Company, having studied the contracting business while at school and at college, serving a practical ap- prenticeship as well. These companies were engaged in general contracting, devoting their attention chiefly, however, to railroad construction and street work. But beyond this branch of the business they did much to develop the city, both before and after the great disaster of April, 1906. In the former period the old North Beach sea wall is one of the important monuments to their enterprise and efficiency. They also ex- cavated the ground for Stowe Lake, one of the beauty spots in Golden Gate Park. Among their other noteworthy excavations CHAS. A. WARREN and improvements in San Francisco and vi- cinity were their preparation of the ground for the Mid-Winter Fair in the park, the excava- tion for the St. Francis Hotel, for the Annex, and for the present "Examiner" building and Fairmont Hotel, the leveling of the sand hills at North Beach and Fort Mason and the con- struction of the Santa Fe sea-wall on China Basin. They also built the road-bed for the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Electric Railway, and that for the extension of North Western Pacific from Wil- lits to Sherwood, and re- claimed the marsh lands around San Mateo and Burlingame, where they built numerous roads. In 1908 Mr. Warren re- tired from active contract- ing. Since then he has given his attention to his duties of administrator of the estate of his father, Charles A. Warren, and of guardian for his brother, H. O. Warren, as well as to his large oil and ranch interests. To the latter, which include a thousand acres near Warm Springs, Alameda County, Cali- fornia, on which he raises alfalfa, barley, cattle and dairy products, he gives most of his spare time. He has always been interested in ranching and has had much valuable ex- perience therein. In the oil fields Mr. Warren's ventures have been extensive. He was one of the first to sense the great possibilities of the Coalinga district, and to enter there as an investor, proving up about eleven thousand acres of rich oil land. Recently he has added banking to his list of activities and is devoting considerable at- tention to it. He is at present a director of the Pleas- ant Valley Farming Company, Charles A. Warren Company, the Merchants' National Bank, and he was formerly a director of the Swedish-American Bank, of San Fran- cisco. He holds memberships in the following clubs : The University, Bohemian, Growlers (an oilmen's association), and the Merchants' Exchange. 284 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ■ ■ ^ p « ^J ■ -■rf ^/- ^^1 = \ ' t J^^^^^^^SHBwf ^ ^^^Hj^^^^ m ■^hHhHH^k' ^^ ^H J 1 J 1 * •' ' ''~ fl /^ * f / ^ 1 / M ^M < ^^^^B III , ^^^^^.^^ .ti h^A:.-m^t .''-^'i'^ ... 1 r '^ t- -« ^^^^MUfl^^^H 1 J. R. McKINNIE NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 285 KINNIE, JAMES RENWICK, Real- ty and Investments, Los Angeles, California, and Colorado Springs, Colo., was born in Harrison Coun- ty, Ohio, October 8, 1846. He is the son of E. K. McKinnie and Ruhamah (Drummond) McKinnie. He married Anna McCarty, September 20, 1904, at St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. McKinnie received his education in the schools of his native State, graduating from high school in 1861. He became a teacher in country schools and continued as such until 1863, when he took up arms for the Union. He served in the army from 1863 to the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, and during those two years participated in numerous engagements. Returning from the battle fields, Mr. McKinnie again became a teacher. He trained the youth of his native State for five years, then deserted the prosaic life of a schoolroom for the more exciting one of a gold hunter. Mr. McKinnie, who is a representative man of the West, was among the pioneers in the Colorado silver and gold fields. He arrlvel in that State in 1870 and immediately went in for gold and silver mining in the San Juan country. He was fairly successful there, but did not confine his operations to that district. He prospected in all parts of Col- orado, and after nine years had accumulated a considerable fortune. In 1879 he located at Colo- rado Springs, from where he conducted his mining business. Even in those days tne gold excitement was strong in Colorado, and Mr. McKinnie, with his mining experience, soon became one of the lead- ing men of that section. In 1883 he reorganized the Exchange National Bank of Colorado Springs and was elected its president. He served as presi- dent of tne bank for ten years, and then, his otner interests demanding more of his time, he resigned, being unable to devote as much attention to the business as he thought he should. He was made vice president of the bank, however, and still holds that office. About the time that Mr. McKinnie became in- terested in banking he also became an active fac- tor in the real estate business of Colorado Springs and acquired large tracts of land in and around the city, and today has valuable and extensive holdings. Mr. McKinnie has undertaken some very large development projects, and to him is due many of the marvelous feats of irrigation and reclamation in the United States. For instance, in 1905 he, with R. P. Davie, be- gan the reclamation of the submerged lands of the Florida Everglades. It was a gigantic undertaking and necessitated not only daring, but great engi- neering ability. This work was really the greatest piece of development that has taken place in the State of Florida and is one that will always be re- garded as a monument to the progressiveness of Springs and the El Paso Club of Colorado Springs. the men who were concerned in it. With Gov- ernor Broward as the patron of the work, Mr. McKinnie and Mr. Davie purchased 110,000 acres of swamp land for reclamation purposes, and they then set to work to drain it by means of modern canals. That work is not yet complete, but its successful outcome is assured, for already more than 25,00 acres have been drained and put in cultivation by the Everglades Sugar and Land Company, which was organized by Mr. Mc- Kinnie in 1906 and is today one of the most im- portant corporations in Florida. After this work had been successfully started, Mr. McKinnie and his partner, in 1907, organized the Southwestern Sugar and Land Company and purchased a large tract of land located in the Salt River Valley, Arizona. This land was an arid waste at that time and regarded as unfit for any purpose. Under the hands of these masterful de- velopers, however, the land has been thoroughly irrigated, and where once there was naught but desert there are today widespreading fields of wheat, sugar beets and alfalfa, all of which are pro- duced in great quantities, the crops each year growing larger. This work, in its way, was quite as monumental a task as that in Florida, and its accomplishment placed Mr. McKinnie in the forefront of Western developers. He was the pioneer in beet-sugar growing in Colorado and Kansas and built the first beet-sugar factories in those States. Mr. McKinnie also has heavy land interests in Soutnern California, and in order to be near them built a home in Los Angeles three years ago. He now spends part of his time there each year, man- aging his properties in that section of the country. He maintains headquarters in Colorado Springs, however, and there transacts most of his business. In addition to his land projects, Mr. McKinnie has also gone in for oil, and in it, like everything else he has taken hold of, has scored a success. His oil holdings are in the California fields and his wells are among the best in that State. He oper- ates under the name of the Palmer Annex Oil Com- pany, of which he is secretary and treasurer. His principal interests and his positions in each are as follows: Southwestern Sugar and Land Company, president; Everglades Sugar and Land Company, president; Sheridan (Wyoming) Land and Irrigation Company, president; Western States Securities Company, president; Grand Junction Town and Development Company, president; West- ern Sugar and Land Company, vice president; U. S. Sugar and Land Company, airector. Mr. McKinnie, besides being prominent as one of the big business men of the West, is a well- known clubman and lodge member. He is a mem- ber of the Grand Army of the Republic and takes a leading part in the affairs of the veterans. He is an Elk, and holds memberships in the following clubs: Colorado Springs Country Club, Denver Club of Denver, Pike's Peak Club of Colorado 286 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY JOSEPH MESMER ESMER, JOSEPH, Pres., North L. A. Development Co., was born at Tippecanoe City, Miami County, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1855, the son of Louis Mesmer and Katherine (Forst) Mesmer; married Rose Elizabeth Bushard at Los Angeles, April 22, 1879, and to them there have been born six children, Louis Francis, Marie Josephine Perier, Clarence Woodman, Junietta Lucille, Beatrice Evalynne and Aloysius Joseph Mesmer. He went with his parents to Los Angeles, Sept., 1859, going by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He received a primary education in the schools of Los Angeles and finished at the College of Strasburg, in Germany. Shortly after his return from Ger- many he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1878 he entered the shoe business, opening the Queen Shoe Store. In 1896 he sold out, and with his fam- ily went traveling. He was abroad over a year. He returned to Los Angeles and became identi- fied with the St. Louis Fire Brick and Clay Co., a concern of which he is president and a heavy stock- holder. He is also president of the N. E. W. Com- mercial and Improvement Association. Mr. Mesmer has twice served in a public ca- pacity, once as a member of the Freeholder's Char- ter Commission, to frame up a charter for the City of Los Angeles, and at another time as Park Com- missioner. He was chairman of a committee of three who were instrumental in the location of the Federal Building on the Downey block site, and is one of the most energetic workers for a City Beau- tiful, to be built on a comprehensive plan. He belongs to a number of improvement clubs. He is a member of the California Club, Jonathan Club, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Knights of America, L. A. Catholic Beneficial Assn., a life member of St. Vincent de Paul Society, and direc- tor of the L. A. County Pioneers' Society. FERNAND PARMENTIER ARMENTIBR, FERNAND, Archi- tect, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Paris, France, May 28, 1865, the son of Ferdinand Alexis Parmen- tier and Caroline Sophie (Engel) Parmentier. He received his ed- ucation abroad, attending the College at Guebwille, Alsace. His collegiate education complete, he came to the United States, and later studied architecture at Chicago. He entered into partnership with W. I. Beman in 1888 for the practice of architecture. This part- nership continued for five years, to be dissolved in 1893, when he associated himself with Frederick Baumann. During his time in Chicago he built the office building of the Chicago City Railway, the Cooper Block, the McKee Block, the Sheridan Club House, Hyde Park Club House, the residence of Dr. Almon Brooks and others. He came to California, November, 1893, first to Santa Barbara. In the spring of 1894 he came to Los Angeles. He received his certificate tor the practice of architecture in California, Aug. 30, 1901. Since that time he has designed the First Churcn of Christ, Scientist, the French Hospital, the Mas- carel Building, factory for L. J. Christopher, Cam- bria-Union apartment house, Pellisier apartment house, residences of G. Pellisier, L. Schirm, J. V. Elliott, C. G. Hale and others. He was a member of the Illinois Chapter Ameri- can Institute of Architects, while in Chicago, and is at present a member of the American Institute of Architects, member of the Southern California Chapter American Institute of Architects, and he has been Secretary of this organization since Oct. 21, 1904. He is also a member of the Engineers and Archi- tects' Association of Southern California. While in Chicago he was also one of the earlier members of the Chicago Architectural Club. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 287 FRED LATIMER ATIMER, FRED, Real Estate Broker, Los Angeles, Cal., is a na- tive of Canada, born at Ottawa, the Dominion capital, December 14, 1878. He Is the son of Hugh Latimer and Mary (Hastey) Lati- mer, both members of old Canadian families. Mr. Latimer was taken to California by his par- ents when he was twelve years old. They first located at Riverside, that State. He remained there for nine years, during which time he at- tended the public schools, graduating from the Riverside High School in 1897. In 1899, removed to Los Angeles, and there studied pharmacy. After mastering this profes- sion he, in 1901, associated himself with James V. Baldwin in the realty business and they have con- tinued in business together since that time. The firm has made a specialty of subdivisions in high- class residence property, some of the more notable sections opened up by them being the West Adams Heights and Westmoreland Heights tracts. They have also traded extensively in the Wilshire Boule- vard district, one of the most beautiful home places in the Southwest, and put on Wellington Place, Westminster Place, Larchmont Heights and Wil- shire Heights. In addition to his realty business Mr. Latimer is a large fruit grower. He owns two fine ranches at Ontario, Cal., in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and grows oranges on a large scale. He gives much of his time to this work and is one of the leading in- dividual growers in California. His father also is a prominent orange producer and owns extensive groves throughout Southern California. Mr. Latimer is a member of the Jonathan and Los Angeles Country clubs of Los Angeles, and, be- ing an enthusiastic fisherman is a member of the Tuna Club, of Catalina Island, an organization made up of expert anglers. p ■r^ Rl '^h i: ' ::mMmm^^^m^- W ^'^ 1 J. W. SUMMERFIELD UMMERFIELD, JOHNSON WY- ATT, Attorney-at-Law and Justice of the Peace, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, Cal., is a native of Indiana, having been born at Vernon, that State, November 20, 1869, the son of Johnson Wyatt Summerfleld and Catherine Jane McClaskey. He was married at Santa Ana, Cal., December 5, 1908, to Phoebe F. Labory, daughter of Leonard J. Labory. One child, Catherine Jane Summerfleld, has been born to them. He received a common school education and spent part of his boyhood in Utah, the family mov- ing to Santa Monica in 1883. He finished his pre- liminary schooling in Los Angeles and in the late eighties entered the University of California Col- lege of Law, from which he was graduated in 1891. He did not immediately enter into the practice of law, but learned shorthand, and in 1895 was en- gaged as a shorthand reporter. He continued at this until 1898. The next year he became asso- ciated with District Attorney James C. Rives, now Superior Judge, and remained with him until 1902. In that year he took up active practice, and for five years was a pleader, but in 1907 he was elected to Justice of the Peace and has continued in that office since, having been re-elected in 1910. He is considered one of the best men who has ever occupied the bench in a justice court. He is popular with the public, his associate justices and with the attorneys who practice before him. Justice Summerfield has been a prominent fig- ure in lodge matters for several years and at the present time is a member of the B. P. O. E., Eagles, Independent Order of Foresters, Knights of Pyth- ias, Modern Woodmen, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Foresters of America and Free and Ac- cepted Masons. He is a member of the Metropolitan Club and the Jonathan Club. 288 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OODWARD, FRANK J., Vice-President and Manager of the F. J. Woodward Co., Inc., San Francisco, was born near Mission San Jose, Ala- meda County, Cal., September 27, 1870, the foster son of James and Elizabeth Woodward. His father came to California about the year 1869 and settled in Alameda County. His son, Frank, grew up on the east side of the Bay, with the development of which section of the State he has for years been promi- nently identified, and on the 11th of August, 1892, was married in Oakland to Miss Dell Chapman, daughter of the Reverend Doctor E. S. Chapman. The children of this mar- riage are Gwendolen Dell, born April 1, 1894; Phyl- lis Fay, March 18, 1896, and Ervin Chapman Woodward, June 9, 1899. From 1876 to 1884 Mr. Woodward attended the Franklin Grammar School in Oakland, and for the next year was a student at the Oakland High School, which he left to take a commercial course in Heald's Business Col- lege in San Francisco, from which institution he was graduated in 1886. His first employment was with the real estate firm of Woodward & Gamble, with whom he remained as cashier for about four years. He then became the private secretary of E. C. Sessions, banker, builder of street railways, real estate operator, pioneer de- veloper of the Oakland waterfront, and one of California's most progressive investors and capitalists. In this confidential capacity, in which he remained five years, Mr. Wood- ward gained an invaluable experience which has been largely instrumental in his own subsequent success as an independent opera- tor and adviser of financial institutions. In 1895 he was appointed b)- the Superior Court of Alameda County receiver for the Highland Park and Fruitvale Railway, a function which he discharged for two and a half years, at the end of which time the road was sold to the Oakland Traction Company. FRANK J. WOODWARD j\Ir. Woodward then took over the manage- ment of the W. J. Dingee real estate inter- ests, involving much valuable property and requiring considerable managerial ability. These interests he bought in 1899, and organ- ized the real estate firm of Woodward, Wat- son & Co., which he and his partners con- ducted for three years, when Air. Woodward associated himself with Henry A. Butters, another of Oakland's well known capitalists, organizing the Realty and Bonds and Finance Com- pany. He became its man- ager, and until 1907 con- centrated his energies, with marked success, on the affairs of this flour- ishing concern. In that year he sold out and re- tired from the real estate brokerage business. He is at present vice-president and manager of the F. J. Woodward Co., Inc., en- gaged in the buying, selling and developing of properties. During these years of successful activity Mr. Woodward has acquired a wide reputation for keen judgment, and loyal- ty to the best interests of Oakland and its environs. Ever on the alert for op- portunity and for any- thing conducive to the proper advancement of Oakland and vicinity he has promoted and managed some of the most important realty enterprises ever undertaken on the east side of the Bay, and is regarded, both by public and private investors, as an authority on mortgage loans and the many similar uses of capital. In politics he has preferred to act as an observer rather than as an active participant, confining his interest in this field to voting fiir whatever he beliexed to be best for the country. He belongs to the conservative wing of the Republican party and has always been opposed to everything smacking of sensa- tionalism and unrest. Pie is a member of Elks' Lodge No. 171 of Oakland, Live Oak Lodge, F. A. M.; Athe- nian Club of Oakland, and the Native Sons of the Golden ^Vest. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 289 ELLMAN, IRVING HER- MAN, active manager of the H. W. Hellman Estate, Los Angeles, California, is a na- tive of that city, having been born on property where the Herman W. Hellman Building now stands on May 10, 1883. His father was Herman W. Hellman (deceased), known as one of the most successful financiers and business men of the West, and for forty years a leader in Southern California. He married Florence Marx, November 30, 1911, at Los Angeles. Mr. Hellman spent his youth in Southern Cali- fornia and was first edu- cated in the grammar and high schools of Los An- geles. After graduating from the Los Angeles High School he took a special course in engi- neering at the Armour School of Technology, Chicago. He also stud- ied under four engineers of different nationalities and specialized in the study of reinforced con- crete. He pursued the study of concrete con- struction for several years, returning to Los Angeles early in 1906. Shortly after his return to his home city Mr. Hellman took the civil service examina- tion, June 6, 1906, passing with a very high record. He became the first reinforced con- crete engineer for the City of Los Angeles. His business was to pass for the city the plans for all of the reinforced buildings and structures to be put up in Los Angeles. He also inspected them while under construc- tion and passed on the work when com- pleted. One of the best examples of that work that came under his supervision was the Temple Auditorium, one of the largest structures of its kind in the West. He con- tinued in this position for one and one-half years, resigning at the time of his father's death to look after the enormous aiifairs of the Herman W. Hellman Estate. During the first part of 1908 Mr. Hell- man was made active manager of his father's IRVING H. HELLMAN estate, which position he holds today. The extensive interests of the estate cover bank- ing, buildings, unimproved city properties, ranch lands and enormous holdings in unim- proved lands, scattered over a greater part of California. There are also numerous other possessions throughout the entire country, all of which require conservative business management and close attention. Mr. Hellman's per- sonal interests are exten- sive and growing, and, combining them with the affairs of the estate, he finds himself surrounded on every side with busi- ness duties, his director- ships and offices demand- ing about all of his time. At present he holds di- rectorships in the follow- ing companies : Califor- nia Clay Manufacturing Company; Mexican As- sociated Oil Company; California Midway Oil Company; Purcell, Gray and Gale Company, and the Southwest Portland Cement Company of El Paso, Texas. He has ex- tensive banking interests and holds a prominent position among the finan- ciers of the Southwest. He is a director of the Merchants' National Bank, of the All Night and Day Bank; of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of the First National Bank of Puente and of several other country banks. Mr. Hellman is also interested in the Security Savings Bank of Los Angeles. He is prominent in active movements in Southern California for a greater city, and in- terested in questions involving the develop- ment of Los Angeles, such as the harbor question and the aqueduct or in financing enterprises that mean the development of the country's resources. In the Southwest his cycle of activities covers almost every section. He is a member of the West Shore Gun Club, the San Gabriel Valley Country Club, Union League Club, Concordia Club; a life member of the Shrine, a Thirty-second de- gree Mason, an Elk, a member of the Los An- geles Athletic Club and an automobile, golf and hunting enthusiast. 290 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY flre. Mrs. shared Ms, triumphs in AMNER, COLONEL WILLIAM HENRY, U. S. A., (retired), Los Angeles, California, was born at Clarksville, Virginia, April 22, 1838. His father was George Hamner, a prominent plantation owner and tobacco grower of his district, and his mother was Elizabeth (Red) Hamner. He was married at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, while In active service at that post, to a widow, Mrs. B. T. Brown, a highly accomplished woman. She has followed Colonel Hamner on many of his mili- tary expeditions during his forty-four years of active service and during the early part of the Civil War, when Colonel Hamner was sta- tioned at Morris Island, fol- lowing the evacuation of Fort Sumter, she was under Hamner has dangers and a manner be- coming the wife of a soldier and today is his constant companion. Colonel Hamner spent his boyhood days on his father's plantation and was educated in the common schools of his home district. At the age of seventeen years, being fired by stores of fights with the Indians in the far West, he determined to become a soldier and in 1856, enlisted at Fort Moultrie. He had not been in service long when he was ordered South with a detachment of soldiers in pursuit of Billy Bow-legs, the celebrated Seminole Indian. For two years this war raged in the wilds of Florida and in 1858, the Indians negotiated with the Government and peace was declared. His next station was at Fort Moultrie, where Colonel Hamner remained until the outbreak of the Civil War. Shortly before Fort Sumter was fierd on, fearing that they would be unsafe in their quarters, the entire garrison exacuated Fort Moultrie and moved to Sumter, which was more strongly fortified. Colonel Hamner saw the first shell fired on his fort, and was one of the last to depart from the fort when all hope had been lost. On April 14, 1861, when the fire in the fort was near the powder magazines, it was deter- mined that the Union soldiers should evacuate Sumter. As Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, Colonel Hamner was the one who pulled down the American flag as the Union soldiers moved out of that historic fort and made their way to the steamer "Isabell," anchored off Fort Sumter, where they remained over night. On the following day Colonel Hamner took passage on the trans- port "Baltic" for New York. On October 17, 1861, shortly after his arrival in the north, he joined a Rhode Island regiment COL. WILLIAM H. HAMNER at Portress Monroe. He saw active fighting dur- ing the remainder of the war, being stationed at times on Morris Island. After General Sherman had marched to the sea and had made the Charles- ton coast secure. Colonel Hamner was among that small body of soldiers which mounted the ruins of what was formerly Fort Sumter, and on April 14, 1865, raised the Stars and Stripes over the same fortress from which it had been lowered just four years before. During the period of re- construction he was sta- tioned at Baton Rouge, La., where he remained until 1869. At that time he was moved to the frontier, on Devil's Lake, Dakota Terri- tory, where skirmishes with Sitting Bull's Sioux Indians were not infrequent. In May, 1870, he was stationed at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, an- other dangerous Indian coun- try, where he remained until 1877. After a few months spent at Fort Snelling, Min- nesota, he was transferred still farther to the West, to Fort Brown, Texas, at which place he arrived on Christ- mas Day, 1877. He remained in Texas, his work being par- ticularly with the southwest- ern border Indians, until 1881, at that time being transferred to Fort Gibson, Indian Terri- tory. In 1885 he was made executive officer at the Fort Leavenworth Military Prison in Kansas, continuing in that capacity up to 1888. His next station was at Fort Assinniboine, Mon- tana, where he served for five years. In 1893 he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, being promoted at that place to the position of Major and Paymaster. He was later stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, from which post he was transferred to Albuquerque, New Mexico, leaving that fort In 1897 for Omaha, Nebraska. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. Colonel Hamner sought active service and was moved to Tampa, Florida, where the Government was mobilizing troops. He served in an active capacity at that station until the Cuban troubles had ceased to worry the War Department and then returned to Omaha. Colonel Hamner has passed through the stages of Private, Lieutenant, Captain, and retired Jan- uary 1, 1900, as a Major. Later, by an act of Con- gress, he was advanced to the grade of Lieutenant Colonel. He has to his credit forty-four years of active service in the Army; has fought through two wars, served in many States of the Union, and has been awarded medals for various meritori- ous acts. Since his retirement he has resided at Omaha, Nebraska; Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, California, where he lives at present. He is a member of the Loyal Legion and a Mason. NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 291 A.W, HERBERT EDWARD, P. C. S., of London, vice-president of The Viavi Company, Inc., and president and treasurer of the Anglo-American Securities Com- pany of San Francisco, California, was born near Sheffield, England, December 5, 1864, the son of Crossley Law and Rebecca (Brown) Law, and in 1866 came with his parents to the United States, settling in the city of Chicago. There he attended the public schools and the Ger- man-American Institute, be- came proficient in German and an instructor in the In- stitute. Soon afterwards he was made confidential sec- retary of E. C. Potter, man- ager of the North Chicago Rolling Mills, out of which the United States Steel Cor- poration was developed. He joined his brother, Hartland Law, In selling subscription books and in 1884, under the firm name of Law, King & Law, they rep- resented the Western Pub- lishing House of Chicago in San Francisco. In 1886 they purchased a controlling in- terest in the Western Pub- lishing House, but disposed of it soon afterwards and re- turned the same year to San Francisco. Here they began the development of the Viavi System of Treatment. Mr. Law has been largely the or- ganizing power in the Viavi business, than which he deemed no other of his numerous interests more important nor more essentially a part of him- self. He has been the animating force, combining and directing the separate efforts, great or small, of every individual ever connected with the or- ganization into one consistent result. One of the unique features of the Viavi business is the method of sale. It is based wholly on personal contact, a principle which is now almost universal in all lines of business. The Laws have developed an organization in which thousands have received practical training and in which more than 10,000 active workers are at the present time engaged in spreading the Viavi teachings and selling the Viavi Preparations in more than twenty different countries. Mr. Law's activities have been important in other fields. It has been said that, with his brother Dr. Hartland Law, he has been the largest real estate operator in San Francisco during the past twenty years. No individual has built so HERBERT E. LAW many high-class buildings in so short a time. He has touched no property which he has not im- proved. His first operations were in the region northwest of Van Ness avenue and Vallejo street. Coming to the downtown section, among others he has owned and improved property at Mission and Main streets. Mission and Annie streets. Mis- sion and New Montgomery streets, and then on Market street, near Third street, where he built the splendid Monadnock building. Just before the fire, with his brother he bought the Fairmont Hotel. Restoring it after the fire cost $1,840,- 000. The reconstruction of the Fairmont gave direction and emphasis to that fine thing we now know as the San Francisco spirit. In the three years Immediately after the fire $7,000,000 passed through his office In rebuilding, exchanging and restoring to sound position his and his brother's hold- ings. After leasing the Fairmont to the Palace Hotel Com- pany the Law brothers ex- changed it back to Mrs. Her- man Oelrichs, securing, through the exchange, forty acres of water front proper- ty adjoining the military res- ervation of Fort Mason. Po- tentially valuable, it was in- accessible. The completion of the tunnel now authorized through the Port Mason prop- erty will make it accessible and they are planning to make it the site of a great rail and ocean ter- minal. Mr. Law acted as chairman of the Street Changes, General Widening and Grading of Streets Committee, whose work complemented the Burn- ham plan for a San Francisco splendid and beau- tiful. In 1910 he negotiated with the Chinese Gov- ernment on behalf of the Western Steel Corpora- tion, of which he was then president, the largest contract China had made up to that time. He was energetically interested in the Panama-Pacific In- ternational Exposition and he and his brother made possible the use of the Harbor View region as a part of the site. He was for many years a director of the Mer- chants' Association, is a director of Wells-Pargo Nevada National Bank and other large corpora- tions; is a Fellow of the Chemical Society of Lon- don, a member of the Union League Club, and has been an extensive traveler. 292 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY ARTHUR LETTS NOTABLES OF THE SOUTHWEST 293 ETTS, ARTHUR, Merchant, Los Angeles, California, was born at Holmby, Northamptonshire, Eng- land, June 17, 1862, the son of Richard and Caroline (Coleman) Letts. He married Florence Philp, August 25, 1886, at Toronto, Canada. There are three children, Florence Edna, Gladys (now Mrs. Harold Janss) and Arthur Letts, Jr. His father was Richard Letts, a farmer and the eldest son of a Richard Letts, the same name hav- ing been bestowed on the eldest son for nine gen- erations. The farm was held by a Richard Letts four hundred years ago. Until 1874, when he was twelve years old, he attended classes at Rev. Hedges' private school for boys, located near his home. The next three years he spent at the Creaton Grammar School, England. He finished his book education under a private coach, a Mr. Meredith. At the age of sixteen he was "articled," the English term for apprenticed, to a good man, pro- prietor of a dry goods store in a small and bustling town of the neighborhood. He served his time with credit, and for the fourth year was engaged at a salary. But he did not long remain in this position. His imagination, and also that of his elder brother, had become fired with the word of the opportunities open to the young man in the new world across the Atlantic. Lest they be persuaded to stay by the pleadings of their parents, they did not tell of their intention until they were aboard the steamer at Liverpool. Arthur Letts got as far as Toronto, Canada, and found employment in a large dry goods store. For several years he was with the same firm. When the Reil rebellion broke out in the North- west of Canada, he volunteered, eager for a taste of outdoor life and the contact with the wilderness. His position in Toronto was held open for him while he went with his regiment to the scene of the trouble. He was awarded a silver medal and clasp for distinguished service, and a grant of land by the Canadian government. In the early nineties he went to Seattle, and went to work the day he arrived. Three days later came Seattle's great fire, and the firm he worked for was wiped out. His buoyant spirit did not look upon the event as a calamity, and although he had not reckoned at once to go into business for him- self, he got together a small stock and began to sell goods in a tent, later renting one of the first storerooms available. But he was not satisfied with results in Seattle. By this time he was studying his field with a keener eye, determined to locate in that one spot that had the greatest promise. Los Angeles seemed to be that place. With only $500 in his pocket he arrived in that city in the year 1896. Opportunity seemed to be waiting for him. At the corner of Fourth and Broadway, then well on the southern edge of the business section, the firm of J. A. Williams & Co. had gone bankrupt. No one in the city seemed to want either the stock or the location. Business was then a half mile to the north. The stock inventoried at $8167. With the help of an influential friend, who was impressed with Mr. Letts' knowledge of the busi- ness, a loan of $5000 was secured from the Los Angeles National Bank. This amount was used as the first payment for the bankrupt stock, the bal- ance to be paid in thirty days. He gave the busi- ness the name of the Broadway Department Store, and opened its doors February 24, 1896. At the end of the first week the adjoining store caught fire and the stock of the new department store was seriously damaged by fire. With the insurance money of $1000 the undiscouraged Mr. Letts began business again. Then followed a growth more phenomenal than the growth of the city. By 1899 the Broadway oc- cupied the entire ground floor of the Pirtle & Hal- let building. In 1901, the adjoining Hellman build- ing was bought; in 1905 the upper floors of the Pirtle & Hallet building were acquired, and in the ensuing year the Slauson building, adjoining the Hellman. The stock and trade of the store are now among the largest on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Letts is sole owner of the great establishment. He has always been interested in education and in the welfare of young people. In his own store he has maintained a school for the younger employes. He has been a liberal giver to the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A., which now has one of the finest buildings in America, and is its president. He is a trustee of the State Normal College, and this is the only political office he has consented to hold. Horticulture is his chief hobby. His home, Holmby House, Hollywood, is surrounded by a mag- nificent garden of 30 acres, so filled with a collec- tion of rare and beautiful trees and plants that the United States has made of a section, that devoted to cactus, a substation. He has ransacked the world, in his travels, for specimens. He has of late become an art collector and already has a number of precious marbles, which he has placed in his home and garden. His business interests and property holdings outside of the Broadway Department Store are known to be heavy, but he prefers to keep his name out of the directorates of other concerns. He is a member of the California Club, Los An- geles Country Club, Automobile Club, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Realty Board, Municipal League, Hollywood Board of Trade, Fed- eration Club, all of Los Angeles, and of the Bo- hemian Club of San Francisco. He is president of the Young Men's Christian Association; president Retail Dry Goods Association; member Internation- al Committee, Y. M. C. A.; member Hollywood Lodge, P. and A. M., and a Knight Templar. 294 PRESS REFERENCE LIBRARY OSCAR A. TRIPPET It RIPPET, OSCAR A., Attorney-at- Law, Los Angeles, California, was born Marcli 6, 1856, in Gibson County, Indiana, the son of Caleb Trlppet and Mary M. (Fentress) Trippet. He married Cora Lari- more, November 5, 1902, at St. Louis, Missouri. There are two children, Larimore Oscar and Fran- cis Oscar Trippet. Mr. Trippet atteiided the common schools of Indiana; took a one-year course at the Indiana State Normal, and a one-year course in the law department of the University of Virginia in 1878-79. He passed the bar examination in the year 1879 and began practice at once. After a few months, in 1879, he was appointed deputy prosecuting attor- ney of Du Bois County, Indiana, serving under his brother, who was district attorney at the time. Practiced law and served a term as Senator in the Indiana Legislature until 1887, when he moved to San Diego, California. There he associated him- self with Judge W. T. McNeely. The latter retired after two years, and Attorney Trippet continued practice alone, until 1901, with unusual success, rep- resenting many important corporations. He opened a law office in Los Angeles in 1901, and did business alone until 1911, when he formed a partnership with Ward Chapman, M. L. Chapman and J. E. Biby This firm is attorney for the National Bank of Cal- ifornia, California Vegetable Union, the Economic Gas Company and other corporations. He helped organize the Home Telephone Company of Los An- geles in 1902, and since its organization has been its attorney. In 1896 he was California delegate to the Na- tional Democratic convention held in Chicago. 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