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REUBEN WISOR DROMGOLD
DROMGOLD, REUBEN WISOR, Real Estate, Los Angeles, California, was born in Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1855. He is the son of Manasseh Dromgold and Sarah (Loy) Dromgold. He married Nellie M. Squire at Los Angeles, January 1, 1890. They have one son, George C. Dromgold.
He was educated in the schools of his native county. He became a school teacher. Later he learned the trade of sign painter and decorator. In 1880 he went to Missouri, stayed two years, went to Colorado for one year, and in 1883 he moved to Los Angeles, where he took up painting and contracting, the paint and oil business and real estate. He branched out into the sign business in the year 1890 and soon built up one of the largest establishments in the West.
He was nominated and elected to the City Council of Los Angeles, serving from 1907 to 1910. He fathered the plan for the monumental bridge and viaduct on North Broadway and backed all public improvements.
In the year 1910 he took up the real estate business again.
He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic Shriner, Elk, member Los Angeles Chamber Commerce, and Los Angeles Pioneer Society.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 742,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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