Los Angeles County
Biographies
WILLIAM DOUGLAS LONGYEAR, Los Angeles
Born in Jackson Co., Mich., July 2, 1863; after the death of his father, in 1872, moved to Kalamazoo; was educated in schools of that city. Entered Kalamazoo National Bank in November, 1884; resigned position in October, 1889, and came to California. In 1890 accepted position with Security Savings Bank, of Los Angeles, when that institution was only a year old; elected Assistant Cashier in April, 1893, and Cashier and Secretary (present position) in January, 1895. Scottish Rite Mason. Mem. California and Jonathan Clubs. Married, 1893, Miss Ida A. Mackay.
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.262
SAMUEL INGHAM MERRILL, Los Angeles
Born Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1856; educated in its common and high schools commenced business with Buffalo grain house; came to Oakland, Cal., Sept. 11, 1876, and opened grocery; bookkeeper, then manager for Hopkins & Haley, San Francisco bankers, 187781. Came to Los Angeles Dec. 24th of that year and entered hardware business as Merrill & Babcock; wholesale iron trade as Percival & Merrill 1883-5; book and stationery house (Merrill & Cook) 1885-91; developed one of the largest retail oil concerns in world 1891-1901; Gen. Mangr. and Pres. California Industrial Co. since.; also Dir. Western Gas Engine Co. and Chamber of Commerce. Organized Y. M. C. A. of Los Angeles in Feb., 1882, and Pres. four years; one of the founders Baptist College, Union Rescue Mission, Good Samaritan Mission, McKinley Industrial Home and First New Testament Church of Los Angeles. Married, 1888, Sarah De Etta Dearborn; has three children.
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.263
JACOB L. LANTERMAN, La Canada
Born in New Jersey, 1827; died at Glendora, Cal., 1908. Reared as the son of a Poor farmer in New Jersey. Secured an education by individual exertions and finally worked his way through the Baltimore Dental College; then went to Michigan and opened his office at Lansing, then a little back woods settlement, but soon to be the state capital; as soon as practice would warrant married Ammoretta J. Crisman, who came from near his New Jersey home; four children born, one dying in infancy and three being now residents of Southern California; a competency realized from professional work, banking and farming, but at expense of his health. Dr. Lanterman came to Los Angeles Co. in 1874, buying several thousand acres of wild land at La Canada, which he transformed into the beautiful family home, known as Homewood. There his children, Stella, Frank and Roy, were reared, and there his wife died in 1902; he himself passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Stella B. La Fetra, at Glendora, in 1908—a man of sterling character, as quiet in his demeanor as in his charities.
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.264
WILLIAM SPRINGER BARTLETT, Los Angeles
Born South Bend, Ind., where he had practical mercantile training; commenced banking career in San Francisco as bookkeeper for California Trust Co. (later National Gold Bank and Trust Co.), of which he became Cashier; subsequently came to Southern California and organized several banks and other corporations; in February, 1898, German-American Savings Bank, became Chairman Board of Dir., German-American Sav. Bank. One of the promoters and organizers of the Home Telephone Co., Los Angeles; Treas. and Dir. Y. M. C. A. Mem. California Club. In politics, Republican; in religion, Presbyterian. Married at Oakland, Cal., Miss F. C. Gray, of Virginia.
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.265