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JAMES MacPHERSON
James MacPherson, president of the
California Consumers Company, the California Consolidated Water Company and the
Associated Ice Distributors, is one of the younger business and manufacturing
executives of the Los Angeles district whose success is attributable entirely
to his own initiative and ability. A
native of Great Britain, he was born in 1890, a son of James and Louise
MacPherson, who are of Scotch descent and still reside in the old country.
James MacPherson acquired his
education in the grammar schools of his native land and was a youth of
seventeen when he left England and crossed the Atlantic to Canada, in which
country he remained for five years. On
the expiration of that period he came to the United States and in 1913 made his
way to the west coast. The following
year, war having broken out, he enlisted in the British Army and remained in
the service until 1919. He was attached
to a machine gun corps, served in Palestine and Egypt and sustained wounds at
Gaza, Palestine. With the termination of
his military duties in 1919, Mr. MacPherson returned to the United States and
in Seattle, Washington, entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company, with
which corporation he has been associated throughout the intervening period of
fourteen years, being regularly advanced to positions of increasing
responsibility and trust. Aside from his
activities as president of the California Consumers Company, the California
Consolidated Water Company and the Associated Ice Distributors, Mr. MacPherson
is in charge of the ice properties, the bottled water properties (including the
famous Arrowhead Springs and Puritas waters) and the
cold storage properties of the Pacific Public Service in Los Angeles, all
controlled by the Standard Oil Company.
In the past he has also served the corporation in Mexico.
In June, 1910, Mr. MacPherson
married Edna Winkler, of Seattle, Washington.
They make their home in Pasadena, California. Mr. MacPherson is a naturalized citizen of
the United States and gives his political support to the Democratic Party. He has membership in the Chamber of Commerce
of Los Angeles, the Commercial Club of San Francisco, the Jonathan Club and the
Palos Verdes Golf Club, while fraternally he is affiliated with the
Masons. His hobby is gardening.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 49-50, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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