Los Angeles County
Biographies
CALVIN B. STEDDOM
STEDDOM, CALVIN B., Contracting, Los Angeles, California, was born near Richmond, Indiana, January 14, 1878, the son of Isaac P. C. Steddom and Lucinda P. (Puckett) Steddom.
He married Helen May Cattanach at Los Angeles, August 31, 1904, and to them there have been born three children, Eleanor Frances, Helen Margaret and Carol Bernice Steddom.
Mr. Steddom received his education in the public schools of his district and remained at home until the year 1898, when he accompanied a sick brother to Los Angeles. He intended remaining there only a few months, but after a short stay decided to make his home in Southern California.
His first work in Los Angeles was in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company as a mechanic in the car repair department and he remained there for about two years. He then accepted a position with L. L. Newerf, a leading builder of Los Angeles, as foreman, and in this capacity began to take an active interest in the building business. He remained in the employ of Mr. Newerf for abut three years and resigned to go into business for himself as a contractor.
Mr. Steddom operated with success for several years, and in 1907, the year of the financial panic which gripped the entire country, organized the Eagle Rock Building Company, of which he is President and General Manager. As the directing force of this company, Mr. Steddom has been very successful and for several years has been actively engaged in building in Los Angeles and vicinity.
Within recent years Los Angeles and its suburbs have experienced an unprecedented growth, the population of the city having grown nearly a quarter of a million, and this has necessitated the construction of thousands of houses. Mr. Steddom, as one of the enterprising men of the city, has been among the most active of the builders, especially in the Eagle Rock district near the city. This section of Los Angeles has enjoyed phenomenal growth in real estate and other lines, and Mr. Steddom is credited with having done quite as much as any individual for the upbuilding of the town. He has also builded (sic) largely in Santa Monica, Monrovia, Pomona and other Southern California towns which are sharing in the general prosperity of the section.
Mr. Steddon has been a conscientious worker all his life and his success is due, in large measure, to the fact that he applied himself industriously to any task in hand and spared neither time nor effort to acquire complete knowledge of the work in which he was engaged.
Besides the construction of hundreds of homes, Mr. Steddom’s company also has erected a number of large modern buildings in various parts of Los Angeles County, in the construction of which Mr. Steddom has taken an active personal interest. An expert builder himself, he has surrounded himself with talented assistants, but devotes his own time to the supervision of the work entrusted to the company.
Mr. Steddom, aside from his building operations, is interested in various other development enterprises in Los Angeles and is one of the enthusiastic men engaged in the upbuilding of the city and the country surrounding it. He is one of the popular men of the city, but has never taken an active part in politics, preferring to give his spare time to the advancement of the public interest by lending aid to civic movements.
Mr. Steddom is a prominent figure in fraternal circles, being a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood, the Woodmen of the World and the Loyal Order of Moose. He also belongs to the Sierra Madre Club, an organization composed of men with mining and business interests connected with the development of the resources of the Southwest.
Transcribed 5-23-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page
425, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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