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BLANCHE MARION WEBB MOUNT
Blanche
Marion Webb Mount does not know what it is like to be inactive. Though she is now in her seventies, she
remains active in the interests she has pursued all her life—historical study,
patriotic work, church work, and club affairs.
Born
on November 13, 1889, in Constable, New York, a town which one of her War of
18912 ancestors was instrumental in founding, Mrs. Mount is the daughter of
Albert Nichols Webb of Malone, New York, and Marion Adeline (Whipple) Webb, of Whippleville, New York, after whose great-grandfather the
town was named. Mrs. Mount’s
great-great-grandfather, Captain Moses Whipple, served throughout the
Revolutionary War and was given the land on which the town now stands, for his
wartime services. Her paternal great-great-grandfather,
Ebenezer Webb, was given land, also, for serving in the Revolutionary War, and
was a founder of Malone, New York.
Mrs.
Mount was educated in Elgin, Illinois, graduating from high school there in
1908. She then went to the University
of Illinois on a scholarship, and in
1910 came to Los Angeles and entered the Los Angeles Normal School, which later
became the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating in 1911. She has a life California Teachers’
Certificate. Between 1911 and 1913,
Marion Mount taught for two years at Escondido High School, establishing the
home economics department there, and taught for another two years at Avenue 62
School in Los Angeles.
On
July 29, 1915, in Los Angeles, the former Marion Webb was married to Madison
Hoge Mount, a native of Clark County, Illinois.
He was born on May 28, 1871, the son of James Amos and Mary Clara
(Brown) Mount. He taught in country
schools in Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in
1902 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in engineering. In 1905 he came to California for his health,
and went into real estate and cement work in Long Beach; his name is still
found on Long Beach sidewalks. He was a
high school teacher for twenty-eight years, from 1910 to 1938, except for one
year, 1924, during which he subdivided land in Willowbrook. Mr. Mount taught in Los Angeles at
Polytechnic High School, at Manual Arts High School, where he organized the
mechanical drawing department, at Gardena High School, and for ten years at
Luther Burbank High School, where he also organized the mechanical drawing
department. Mr. Mount studied stock
market trends and, in collaboration with Dr. James E. Phillips, wrote a book on
basic stock trading, “Graphic Analysis of Price Time Change”. In 1915 Mr. Mount invented equipment for foot
exercise and manufactured the product.
A
member of the First Presbyterian Church of Alhambra since 1926, Marion Mount was
appointed three years ago as church historian and has compiled an outstanding
history, though it is not yet completed.
She is co-president of the Corll class, and
was formerly superintendent of the primary department of the church, teaching
for close to twenty years. Mrs. Mount is
a past deacon, for two terms, and was president of the Ladies Aid for two
terms. She is a member and past trustee
of the Alhambra Round Table, and is very active member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, serving as state chairman from 1952 to 1956, and as regent
of the Alhambra-San Gabriel Chapter from 1954 to 1956. She has held several chairmanships, including
chairman of genealogical records for two years, and presently as chairman of
Historical Spots in California. She has
twice been a delegate to its national convention in Washington. Mrs. Mount was very active during both World
Wars on bond issues, and Red Cross, and has been on the Election Board for more
than twenty years as an inspector. Mrs.
Mount was also active in Girl Scout work, and organized the first troop at Park
School.
Mr.
and Mrs. Mount are the parents of two sons and a daughter, who all graduated
from Alhambra High School. James Albert,
born on April 13, 1918, attended Polytechnic College, became a staff sergeant
in the Air Force, serving for three years, mostly in England and France, and
now lives in Anaheim with his wife, the former Miss La Vee
Johnson, whom he married in Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 20,
1943. Their children are: James Dee, born October 27, 1943, in Salt Lake
City, who now attends Anaheim Junior College; Georgia Louise, born in Monterey
Park, September 23, 1946; and Kathy Marie, born June 14, 1948. The Mount’s second son, Theodore Howard,
killed during World War II, was born on February 24, 1920, in Los Angeles, and
was married to the former Miss Marianne Meinhardt of
Alhambra. He was a staff sergeant (radio
gunner) in the Air Force. Mrs. Gordon
William (Mary Patricia Mount) Jenkins was born on May 21, 1923, in Los Angeles;
she was married on June 25, 1941, and lives in San Marino with her husband and
their two children, Gary Richard, born in 1942, and Patricia Lynne, born in
1949. Mr. Jenkins is in the heavy chrome
plating and color anodizing business, with a plant in South Gate, with branches
in Texas and in Tucson, Arizona.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 630-632, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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