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JOHN
LLEWELLYN
LLEWELLYN, JOHN, Manufacturer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Wales, May 27, 1873, the son of David Llewellyn and Hannah (Janes) Llewellyn. He comes of a family of noted ironmasters and is at present Assistant Secretary of the Llewellyn Iron Works, Los Angeles.
Mr. Llewellyn passed his early childhood in San Francisco, being brought to this country at the age of eleven years, when the family crossed the water. While there he studied under private tutors for three years, and in 1888, when his mother moved the home to Los Angeles, he entered a business college, graduating in 1892.
He went to work with the Llewellyn Company immediately after leaving school and has been with it ever since. At the present time, in addition to his position as assistant secretary, he is manager of the elevator department, which handles some of the largest elevator contracts in the West.
One of the most striking characteristics of Mr. Llewellyn is determination, and this was forcibly illustrated in San Francisco after the calamitous fire and earthquake, when he went into that city as one of the actual rebuilders and installed the first elevator constructed in a building subsequent to that disastrous period. He met with tremendous labor difficulties, but finally overcame these, and accomplished the work he had set out to do. This elevator was put in under his personal direction.
Under his supervision elevators have been installed in most of the skyscrapers in Los Angeles, notably the Alexandria Hotel, Chester, Higgins and Union Oil buildings, Los Angeles Hall of Records, and the new Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Mr. Llewellyn is a leading business man and is a member of the California, Jonathan, Sierra, Los Angeles Athletic, Los Angeles Country and Los Angeles Automobile clubs. He is a 32d (sic) degree Mason.
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3-11-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 611, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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