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GUY B. BARHAM
BARHAM, GUY B., Custom House and Internal Revenue Broker, Los Angeles, California, was born at The Dalles, Ore., March 21, 1864. His father was Richard M. Barham and his mother Martha Medora (Arnold) Barham. 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; the 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 became Deputy Collector Internal Revenue Service at Los Angeles. He resigned in 1890 to go into the business for himself. Went into politics and was Police Commission, Los Angeles, 1895-96; President Board of Bank Commissioners of California, 1902-06.
Clubs: Los Angeles Country, Jonathan, California, Elks, of Los Angeles; Bohemian, of San Francisco.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 592,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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