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WILLIAM
MORGAN HUMPHREYS
HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM MORGAN, Member Board of Public Works, Los Angeles, California, was born at St. Louis, Missouri, October 12, 1864, the son of John F. Humphreys and Fannie C. (Mathews) Humphreys. He married Amelia Marie Seeberger, April 25, 1895, at Monmouth, Illinois, and to them there has been born one child, Helen Humphreys.
Mr. Humphreys began life equipped with a thorough education, having attended St. Louis University, St. Mary’s College, St. Louis; St. Louis Law School and St. Vincent’s College, Los Angeles. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from St. Vincent’s in 1911. After graduating from St. Louis Law School in 1889 with LL.B., he returned to Los Angeles, whither, his family had moved in 1883, and went into the land business on a large scale. He bought large tracts adjacent to the city, subdivided them into lots, cut streets, laid sidewalks, and planted palms and trees. He has done notable improvement work and has been a factor in the upbuilding of Los Angeles, served two terms as Park Commissioner, one as Assistant Postmaster and one on the Board of Public Works.
He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Mystic Shriner, Knight Templar and Elk.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 592,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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