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OSCAR A.SMITH
Oscar a. Smith, president of Pacific Electric Railway Company, was born October 16, 1885, near Sterling, Illinois. The son of George Washington and Anna (Vroman) Smith.
He obtained his education at the Los Angeles High School, 1900-03, and Southern California Business College, 1904.
Mr. Smith’s first job was in 1905 as a furniture manufacturer’s agent; then freight solicitor for the Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway from 1908 to 1909. Since 1909 he has been associated with the Pacific Electric Railway Company, first as traveling freight agent, then rose through the ranks to assistant traffic manager, general passenger agent, passenger traffic manager, and vice president and general manager, becoming president in 1937, and also is a director of the company.
Mr. Smith is also president and director of Pacific Electric Land Company and of the Motor Transit Lines; managing director of Los Angeles Motor Coach Company ; director of Subway Terminal Corporation; trustee of Anna V. Smith Estate; president of Optimist International, 1927-28.
Republican; Methodist; Mason; Forester; and member of the following clubs: California, Jonathan, Transportation, Optimist, and Los Angeles Athletic (Los Angeles).
On September 7, 1910, Mr. Smith married Daphne May Tilley and they have one son, Oscar A., Jr. Their home is in San Marino, California, at 1260 Roanoke Road.
Offices: 675 Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, California.
Transcribed
7-14-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 30, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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