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ROBERT GARNER CURRAN
CURRAN, ROBERT GARNER, Printer and Publisher, Los Angeles, California, was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana, June 18, 1870. Son of Robert E. Curran and Pauline (Garner) Curran. Married Caroline A. Cook at Los Angeles February 24, 1897.
Attended schools in Jeffersonville and Charlestown, Ind., and Sioux Rapids, Ia. Went to California in 1884, attended the high school of Ventura, California. Started in the newspaper business at Santa Barbara, California, 1886; with Ventura Free Press in 1887. In 1888-89 worked on father’s papers at Nordhoff and Ventura. Went until 1894 to the University of Southern California, where he edited and published the college paper from his own plant. Formed a partnership, sold interest after three years; managed Press Clipping Bureau five years; organizer and first president Southwest Printers’ Supply Company; sold interest and traveled for a Chicago type foundry; organized Pacific Steam Economizer Company, 1903, and Keller Steam Economizer Company at St. Louis Exposition; re-entered publishing and printing business, Los Angeles, 1906; publisher Western Insurance News, president Curran Printing Company, member Sigma Chi Fraternity, City Club and Union League of Los Angeles.
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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