These are a selection from sketches I wrote for the website of the West Adams Heritage Association on interesting figures who either lived in the West Adams Section of Los Angeles or are buried in the Angelus Rosedale cemetery, a major West Adams Landmark.
Lucien Napoleon Brunswig
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Founder of giant pharmaecutical company.
Charles Bukowski
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- Created on Monday, 05 October 2009 23:44
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Prolific Los Angeles poet and novelist of the heavy-drinking, down-and-out life.
Doctor Margaret "Mom" Chung
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- Created on Saturday, 07 March 2009 05:45
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First American-born Chinese woman physician. "Adopted" 1500 American flyers and submariners during World War II.
Edward Doheny
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- Created on Monday, 05 October 2009 23:53
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Once the richest man in America. A central founder of West Adams.
Wyatt Earp
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- Created on Wednesday, 06 October 2010 04:07
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One of the Old West's most famous lawmen.
The Furlongs of Vernon and of Van Buren Place
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- Created on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 19:32
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Thomas J. Furlong and his son Robert were part of a dynasty that ruled the industrial city of Vernon from their West Adams home for more than fifty years.
Secundo Guasti
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- Created on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 19:20
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Italian immigrant farmworker who became the biggest wine maker in California.
Dirty Dan Harris
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- Created on Saturday, 06 March 2010 18:58
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Pioneer trader and smuggler in Bellingham Bay, Washington. Founder of the town of Fairhaven, which became part of Bellingham, Washington.
John Randolph Haynes
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- Created on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 04:20
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Physician, philanthropist, radical political reformer. Instrumental in adding the rights of initiative, referendum, and recall to the Los Angeles City charter and the California state constitution.
John Daggett Hooker
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- Created on Monday, 05 October 2009 23:59
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Hardware millionaire, early West Adams social leader, amateur scientist and astronomer, and donor of the Hooker 100 inch telescope at Mt. Wilson, the largest telescope in the world when it was built.
Katharine Putnam Hooker
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- Created on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 04:03
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Early leader of West Adams society. Survivor of two shipwrecks and the San Francisco earthquake; noted travel writer about Italy. Close friend of astronomer George Ellery Hale, naturalist John Muir, and psychologist William James.
William G. Kerckhoff
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German-American lumber and electric power millionaire and land developer who bequeathed buildings in his name to USC, UCLA, and Cal Tech, and endowed a cutting-edge heart research institute in Germany.
Remi Nadeau
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- Created on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 19:14
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French-Candian whose 20-mule teams made him Southern California's leading freighter between 1869 and 1882, accounting for a quarter of Los Angeles' exports.
