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HUBERT
EATON
Hubert Eaton, leading art patron
and financier of Los Angeles County, is president and general manager, and “The
Builder” of the famous Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. He was born at Liberty, Missouri, June 3,
1881, a son of Professor James Rudolphus and Martha (Lewright) Eaton. His
early educational training was supplemented by attendance at William Jewell
College, Liberty, Missouri, from which institution he was graduated in 1902
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
During the succeeding four years he was assistant chief chemist with the
Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper Company of Great Falls, Montana. He next became chief metallurgical chemist in
the service of the Tezuiltan Copper Company of
Mexico, and was subsequently made manager of the Adaven
Mining & Smelting Company of Nevada.
He now figures prominently in financial affairs of southern California
as president of the American Security & Fidelity Corporation, and is also
chairman of the advisory board of the Bank of America at Glendale. As art patron he has succeeded in bringing to
Forest Lawn Memorial Park the greatest collection of life-sized marble statuary
in the United States (the Metropolitan Museum of New York City not excepted),
and the Moretti recreation in stained glass of
Leonard da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper.”
On
December 10, 1918, Mr. Eaton was united in marriage with Anna Munger-Henderson.
They have one son, Roy Eaton, and reside at 2264 West Live Oak Drive,
Los Angeles.
Mr.
Eaton is a Republican in politics and a Baptist in religious faith. He has membership in the Society of Colonial
Wars, Sons of the Revolution, and Sigma Nu Fraternity. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of
the Mystic Shrine. He manifests marked
appreciation of the social amenities of life through his membership in the
California Club, Los Angeles Country Club, Jonathan Club, University Club, La Berenda Country Club, Midwick Country
Club, and The Beach Club.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South Vol.
IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 713-714,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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