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GRANVILLE
IVAN PEOPLES
PEOPLES, GRANVILLE IVAN, Manufacturer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Shell City, Mo., Nov. 7, 1886, the son of Granville M. Peoples and Jannie S. (Herrick) Peoples. He married Bessie Hellyar at Los Angeles Nov. 3, 1909. He is of German extraction, his father’s family having come over from the Fatherland in the early days of the U. S. His father was wealthy contractor in Colorado and his grandfather a noted Civil Engineer who did considerable work for the United States Government on the Mississippi River.
Mr. Peoples received his early education in Denver, leaving there in 1901, when his family moved to Los Angeles. He became an apprentice in an architect’s office and also took up Civil Engineering. He studied both professions for about three and a half years, qualifying as an Architectural Engineer in 1904.
The increasing use of concrete led Mr. Peoples into a special study of its merits and into experimental research, with the result that he became actively interested in a firm manufacturing concrete products. In 1910, he organized and was one of the incorporators of the Cement Products & Construction Co., now serving as President. He is also a Director of the Scheiber Concrete Roof Tile Co. of Cal., specialists in the manufacture of cement products. He has made a continual study of the manufacture and use of Portland cements, conducting an experimental dept. as an adjunct of his original company. His company has erected many public and quasi-public buildings in Southern California and has done much in the development and use of ornamental concrete. Some examples of his work in Los Angeles are the Auditorium Hotel, Columbia Hospital, and Arroyo Seco Bridge, and ornamental concrete construction in Central Park.
Mr. Peoples is member of the Rotary Club, Los Angeles.
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6-22-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 779,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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