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Biographies
EDWARD H. McLAUGHLIN
Edward H. McLaughlin, president and director of the Union Hardware & Metal Company, was born in Los Angeles, California, on October 8, 1895. He is the son of Eugene O’Connell and Mathilde (Hammel) McLaughlin.
After graduating from the University of Santa Clara in 1916, with the B.S. degree, he was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1918.
From 1918 to 1919, during the First World War, Mr. McLaughlin served as ensign with the United States Navy Reserves.
His entire business career has been with the Union Hardware & Metal Company at Los Angeles, California, with whom he became associated in 1919 and of which he has been president and director since 1943. Mr. McLaughlin is also director of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Rodeo Land and Water Company, The Farmers and Merchant’s National Bank of Los Angeles, and the California Stevedore and Ballast Company.
He holds membership in the California Club and the Los Angeles Country Club, both of Los Angeles, California.
Mr. McLaughlin married Edith Young on January 22, 1919 (deceased, 1952), and has five children: Mary Cecile (Mrs. J. J. Brandlin), Edward H., Jr., Edith (Mrs. Donald H. Milligan), Mathilde (Mrs. Arthur Shafer), and Harry Y.
Home: 532 South Lorraine Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
Offices: 5555 Ferguson Drive, East Los Angeles, California
Transcribed 2-4-14 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 242, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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