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IRVING HERMAN HELLMAN
HELLMAN, IRVING HERMAN, Vice President, All Night and Day Bank, Los Angeles, California, is a native of that city, having been born on property where the Herman W. Hellman Building now stands on May 10, 1883. His father was Herman W. Hellman (deceased), known as one of the most successful financiers and business men of the West, and for forty years a leader in Southern California. He married Florence Marx, November 30, 1911, at Los Angeles.
Mr. Hellman spent his youth in Southern California and was first educated in the grammar and high schools of Los Angeles. After graduating from the Los Angeles High School he took a special course in engineering at the Armour School of Technology, Chicago. He also studied under four engineers of different nationalities and specialized in the study of reinforced concrete. He pursued the study of concrete construction for several years, returning to Los Angeles in 1906, to enter active business.
Shortly after his return to his home city Mr. Hellman took the civil service examination, June 6, 1906, passing with a very high record. He became the first reinforced concrete engineer for the City of Los Angeles. His business was to pass for the city the plans for all of the reinforced buildings and structures to be put up in Los Angeles. He also inspected them while under construction and passed on the work when completed. One of the best examples of that work that came under his supervision was the Temple Auditorium, one of the largest structures of its kind in the West. He continued in this position for one and one-half years, resigning at the time of his father’s death to look after the enormous affairs of the Herman W. Hellman Estate.
During the first part of 1908 Mr. Hellman was made active manager of his father’s estate, which position he holds today. The extensive interests of the estate cover banking, unimproved city properties, ranch lands and enormous holdings in unimproved lands, scattered over a greater part of California. There are also numerous other possessions throughout the entire country, all of which require conservative business management and close attention.
Mr. Hellman’s personal interests are extensive and growing, and combining them with the affairs of the estate, he finds himself surrounded on every side with business duties, his directorships and offices demanding about all of his time. At present he holds directorships in the following companies: California Clay Manufacturing Company; Mexican Associated Oil Company; California Midway Oil Company; Purcell, Gray and Gale Company, and the Southwest Portland Cement Company of El Paso, Texas. He has extensive banking interests and holds a prominent position among the financiers of the Southwest. He is a director of the Merchants’ National Bank, of the All Night and Day Bank; of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of the First National Bank of Puente and of several other country banks. Mr. Hellman is also interested in the Security Savings Bank of Los Angeles.
He is prominent in active movements in Southern California for a greater city, and interested in questions involving the development of Los Angeles, such as the harbor question and the aqueduct or in financing enterprises that mean the development of the country’s resources. In the Southwest his cycle of activities covers almost every section.
He is a member of the West Short Gun Club, the San Gabriel Valley Country Club, Union League Club, Concordia Club; a life member of the Shrine, a Thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk, a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and an automobile, golf and hunting enthusiast.
Transcribed 4-30-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 401, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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