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JOSEPH ALEXANDER HARTLEY
JOSEPH ALEXANDER HARTLEY, president of Braum Corporation, was born in Lincoln, Nebraska; August 21, 1883; son of Alfred Atwood and Flora (Alexander) Hartley. Graduate form University of California (Berkeley) in 1907 with a B.S. degree.
In 1908 Mr. Hartley was an operator of metallurgical and assay office in Los Angeles, California; in 1909 he was mill superintendent of a gold mine in Galice, Oregon. From 1909 to 1915 he was in charge of sales to education institutions for Braum Corporation of Los Angeles, purchasing agent from 1915 to 1922, general sales manager from 1922 to 1925, secretary from 1909 to 1925, vice president from 1925 to 1928, and president since 1928.
Mr. Hartley was owner of Radio Jobbing Stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, 1925 to 1928; director of Scientific Apparatus Makers of America, 1930-1950 (chairman of Board, 1945-47); director of Los Angles War Chest since 1942; commissioner of Los Angeles Municipal Airport, 1944-52; director of Los Angeles Y.M.C.A., 1923-43.
Member of Radio Trade Association of Southern California (organizer and first president in 1922); Radio Jobbers Association of Los Angeles (organizer; president, 1922-24); Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (director, 1938-47; president, 1941); Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Los Angeles (director, 1940-52; chairman of Board, 1943 and 1946; chairman of Executive Committee, 1947); National Association of Manufacturers (director, 1942-44; regional vice president, 1945; national vice president, 1946; member of Executive Committee, 1946); American Chemical Society; American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; American Society of Testing Materials; Delta Upsilon, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Republican, Presbyterian (secretary of Bard of Trustees, First Presbyterian Church). Member of the following clubs: All Year (director), California, University, Wilshire Country, Rotary (president, 1937-38) (Los Angeles).
Mr. Hartley married Helen Collier Muncy on August 29, 1907; children: Marjorie Ruth (deceased), Alfred Alexander and Helen Patricia.
Home: 126 South Irving Boulevard, Los Angeles 4, California.
Offices: 2260 East 15th Street, Los Angeles 21, California.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on November 26,
2013.
Source: Eminent Californians 1953, by Lee
E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 137, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Michele Y. Larsen.
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