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FLOYD GOSSETT DESSERY
DESSERY, FLOYD GOSSETT, Civil and Hydraulic Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born Feb. 10, 1879, at Leavenworth, Kan., the son of Alfred B. Dessery and Mary M. (Gossett) Dessery. He married Julia M. Morrison at Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 1905, and to them were born two children, Floyd Gordon and Gerald Morrison Dessery.
Locating in Los Angeles in 1887, Mr. Dessery attended the schools there and left the high school in l898, enlisting in the army shortly afterward. He served through the Spanish-American war and the Philippine campaign with the Third U. S. Artillery and with the Engineer Corps. He participated in seventeen engagements and upon his return to America was awarded special medals by Congress and the State of California.
Returning to civil life in 1900, Mr. Dessery went to work in the Engineering Dept. of the City of Los Angeles, later making hydrographic investigations for the City Water Dept. In 1901-02 he was with the Salt Lake R. R., and the next three years with the Pac. Elec. Co. as engineer in the Construction Dept. He then became Asst. Engineer on surveys for Long Beach Harbor, leaving this to become special engineer of Wilmington, Cal. Following this he was City Engineer of Covina. Mr. Dessery was employed as an expert in the famous Malibu Ranch suit and the Tide Lands litigation for Los Angeles and Long Beach, and in the appraisal of the water system of Huntington Park, Cal. He is hydraulic engineer for the American Beet Sugar Co. at Oxnard, Cal., the Patterson Ranch Co., and various other projects.
He is a member of the firm of Dessery & West. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Amer. Water Works Assn., Eng. & Architects’ Assn. of So. Cal., L. A. and Covina Chambers of Commerce, Covina Country Club and the Gamut Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 584,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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