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HORACE
INGERSOLL BETTIS
BETTIS, HORACE INGERSOLL, Auditor of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, Los Angeles, California, was born at Salem, Mass., April 20, 1863. He is the son of John B. Bettis and Harriett (Bacon) Bettis.
Mr. Bettis was educated in the public schools of Salem, Mass., and at the Norwich University of Vermont. After minor positions with the Thomson Houston Electric Company, this firm sent him to Atlanta, Ga. There he was connected with the organization of the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway, and was at different times Asst. Sec. and Treas. and later Gen. Mgr. of that company. In 1893 he went to New York as Auditor of the Street Railways in New Jersey, which were controlled by General Louis Fitzgerald of the Mercantile Trust Co. and the Equitable Life Insurance Co. Two years later, at Washington, D.C., he was Auditor of Disbursements for the Southern Railway Co.
He moved to Omaha, Neb., in 1898 as Asst. Gen. Auditor of the Union Pacific R.R., and from that city moved to Los Angeles, in 1903. When he left Nebraska he was commissioned by Harriman to represent him on the Board of Directors of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake R.R. and to act as Auditor of that system. Mr. Bettis has also been the Harriman representative on the Directory of the Pacific Eelctric(sic) Ry. and the Los Angeles Interurban Ry.
Besides his interests in the Salt Lake R.R. Mr. Bettis is Vice Pres. and Auditor of the Las Vegas Land and Water Co., as well as a Director, Secretary and Treasurer of the Tampico Petroleum Co.
Clubs: California, the Los Angeles Country, Gamut. He belongs to Los Angeles Commandery Number Nine, Knights Templar, Signet Chapter Number Fifty-seven, Royal Arch Mason, and Al Malaikah Temple A.A.O.N. M.S.
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11-20-10 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 554, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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