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CHARLES F. WREN

 

 

            For nearly twenty years Charles F. Wren has been a factor of the commercial life of Los Angeles, and has identified with transportation and manufacturing for the past eight years.  He is now president of Pickwick Nite Coach Corporation with offices at 560 South Los Angeles Street.  He was born in Bethany, Missouri, October 18, 1883, a son of Robert and Ella (Schaffer) Wren, and attended the public schools of his native town until he reached the age of sixteen, when he went to El Paso, Texas.  Following his removal to Arizona he entered the mercantile field, becoming a dealer in fuel and feed, and later was identified with mining operations in that state, while he also had a brokerage office for a time.  Subsequently he was engaged in the tire business in Kansas City, Missouri, and at Cleveland, Ohio.  In 1913 he came to the Pacific coast, identifying his interests with those of Los Angeles, and has progressed with the city, which numbers him among its substantial businessmen.

            In Tucson, Arizona, on the 25th of June, 1908, Mr. Wren was married to Miss Stella Purcella, by whom he has two sons and two daughters, Charles F., Jr., Gladys I., Alsacia M., and Donald C.  Both daughters are graduates of the University of Southern California.  Appreciative of the resources and advantages of his city, Mr. Wren is working systematically for its development.  He is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Jonathan Club, and the Los Angeles Breakfast Club.  Keenly interested in the science of aviation and transportation he has devoted much thought and study to those subjects and is thoroughly informed upon matters pertaining thereto.

 

 

Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.

Source: California of the South Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 77, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.  1933.


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