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Image 1 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 7 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... GREATER LOS ANGELES and SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THEIR PORTRAITS AND CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF THEIR CAREERS ROBERT J. BURDETTE EDITOR THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Chicago Los Angeles New York 1906- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 8 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... LIBRARY of CONGRESS Two Copies Received NOV 19 1907 Copyriftii tntry Dec 3 1 CLASSA „XKc. No, COPY B. ._. Copyright 1906 by The Lewis Publishing Co. /D J- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 9 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... PREFACE. IN harmony with the original purpose and plan, this volume is An historical record of representative men of affairs in Los Angeles and Southern California combining in one vol- ume the...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 10 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... PREFACE book s value, it is only necessary to suggest how much we would value a similar collection of por- traits of the men who made the history of our nation one...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 11 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... INDEX PAGE Albright, Harrison 238 Allerton, Samuel W 88 Bacon, Walter R 180 Baldwin, James V ^-7 Bean, Jacob 200 Beckett, Wesley W 216 Bergstrom, George E 68 Bittinger, George E 161...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 12 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... INDEX Dorsey, Stephen W 74 Douglass, Frank M 142 Drake, Charles R 148 Drake. James C 198 Eddy, J. W 84 Elliott, John M 36 Emery, Grenville C 220 Ewing, Charles 182...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 13 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... INDEX Kinney, Abbot 214 Kislingburv, George 126 Koebig, Adolph H 69 Laughlin, Homer 118 Lawler, Oscar 1 05 Lee, Bradner W 1 78 Lewis, John T. H 191 Lindley, Walter 132 Louis,...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 14 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... INDEX Pomeroy, A. E 1 56 Potter, Milo M 98 Pridham, Richard W 194 Rindge, Frederick H 40 Roberts, E. D 78 Rowan, Robert A 106 Rowland. William R 228 Schneider, Jacob...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 15 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... FOREWORD. YOU sit on the western piazza and watch the sun go down. You Hnger long, held by the after-glow that tints the heavens like the heart of a shell. A crescent...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 16 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... GREATER LOS ANGELES to the night. Your soul overflows with a sense of beauty, and joy. and peace. It is not a Mid- summer Xig-ht s Dream. Such a scene could not...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 17 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA vantages antedated by many ages the great cities which have grown up because of them, de- spite the shrewd observation of the thoughtful man who had been impressed by...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 18 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... GREATER LOS ANGELES Esplandian (Exploits of Esplandian), by Or- donez de Montalvo, translator of Amadis de Gaul, printed about 1510. California was a mythical island on the right hand of the Indies,...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 19 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA saving and brain-sparing use of carbon sheets and multiple cop) ing presses. Christened at the fount of romance, Cold Fact smiled at the appo- siteness of name and description,...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 20 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... lo GREATER LOS ANGELES harvest of her farms and gardens was $131,690,- 606, more than seven times as much as all her gold that year could buy. He taught her how to...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 21 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA n cud of alfalfa under the great branches of the live oak, looked down with placid contempt on the strenuous efforts of the gold mines to produce sixteen millions...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 22 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 12 GREATER LOS ANGELES doubtless the cattle enjoyed it. For the popula- tion of California then consisted of the two classes into which the discerning cow-bo}^ still divides the denizens of the...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 23 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 13 aristocratic loungers in the California Club, nor are they corralling the passing lion in the Friday Morning, or studying civic righteousness in Ebell. Our Glorious Founders were a...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 24 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 14 GREATER LOS ANGELES names our Mayflower came into port September 4th, 1 78 1, and with religious ceremonies, con- sisting of a mass and a salvo of musketry, our step-fathers formally...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 25 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 15 All of Los Angeles was in that little (acorn?) They weren t a people to worry that folly comes with the higher civilization and they watched themselves grow....- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 26 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 16 GREATER LOS ANGELES plaint when one or two mails missed. In 1818 two Americans became citizens of Los Angeles, Joseph Chapman of Massachusetts, and a negro named Fisher. Things moved with...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 27 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 17 is not a modern disease in the body politic. Our fathers also ate wild grapes. Some time in 1820 Los Angeles was discovered by Boston, and a thriving...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 28 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... i8 GREATER LOS ANGELES still most successfully imitated, with intricate variations, by their 200,000 successors. If ignorance is bliss, the people were happ} But they were not unmindful of the blessings of...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 29 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA iq must be remembered that the padres were teach- ers at the Missions. They taught along poly- technic lines and largely on the Dotheboys hall system. When the neophyte...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 30 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 20 GREATER LOS ANGELES San Francisco to San Diego they held about all the land that was worth holding, and no settler could obtain a grant of land for his homestead, save...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 31 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 21 playing the French allies. Los Angeles remained loyal to the mother country, and in the battles which followed, her heroes displayed staunch loyalty and good sprinting qualities, which...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 32 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 22 GREATER LOS ANGELES mids got himself ready to be born and organize a parlor. The men who were to make Califor- nia, however, had got born some time before, and were...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 33 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 23 half of Kern, and the official!) recorded popula- tion was 3.530. In the rush of 49, Los Angeles county profited a little with the rest of the terri-...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 34 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 24 GREATER LOS ANGELES Los Angeles defy the activity of the statistician. The Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America have homes commodious, attractive and in every way most excellently appointed. The...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 35 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 25 county was but $74^,696 in 1852, and the value of improvements but $301,947. Today, sixty-one towns and cities dot the area of the smaller county, and the assessor...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 36 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 26 GREATER LOS ANGELES class of people who date their letters Troy be- cause they cannot spell Skaneateles/ The an- tiquity of a city 225 years old is not that of Baal-...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 37 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 27 And the men of California, like its fruits and flowers, are largely adopted children. There is onl}^ one generation to the manner born. The speech of the Californian...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
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Image 38 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 28 GREATER LOS ANGELES and due proportion into the blend that we call California. Russia sent her children here or rather thev came without beino- sent runaway children, very much against the...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 39 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 29 theirs the toilsome journey across the continent or around the storm-washed Horn. Not tor them the daily trek and the nightly camp in the midst of alarms and...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906
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Image 40 of Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their ... 30 GREATER LOS ANGELES forests or dike out the sea. They came prepared to buy their homes; they came from homes of comfort to make homes still more comfortable. They were not...- Contributor: Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones)
- Date: 1906