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HARRY ANDREWS
ANDREWS, HARRY, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, Los Angeles, California, was born in Chicago, Illinois, August 10, 1868, the son of Robert Kennedy Andrews and Mary (Blackman) Andrews. Married Laura Elizabeth Lyman May 23, 1906, at Los Angeles.
He attended grammar 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, Pennsylvania, 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.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 544,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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