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Allensworth Allen
Allen Allensworth was the highest ranking Black soldier of his time, and later founded the all-Black town of Allensworth CA, which is now a state historic park.
Anderson Ivie
Ivie Anderson was a jazz singer, best-known for her performances with Duke Ellington's orchestra. She also appeared in Day at the Races and Hit Parade of 1937.
Armstrong Henry
Henry Jackson Jr. was a professional boxer and a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. Armstrong's two nicknames were Hurricane Henry and Homicide' Hank. He competed in featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight divisions, and Armstrong was the first boxer to hold world championships in three different weight divisions at the same time. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1937, and The Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1940. In 2007, The Ring ranked Armstrong as the second-greatest fighter of the last 80 years, and historian Bert Sugar also ranked Armstrong as the second-greatest fighter of all time, while ESPN ranked Armstrong as number 3 of the 50 greatest boxers. He later opened a nightclub, then became a minister and helped run a Boys Club. He was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.
Baker Edward Lee
Edward Baker, 'Left cover and, under fire, rescued a wounded comrade from drowning' The new plaque is fairly recent.
Banning Phineas
Phineas Banning developed much of Los Angeles harbor.
Banning Phineas
He also co-founded the city of Wilmington and gave land to the Union army for Drum Barracks there, now a state museum.
Banning Phineas
He also had a local stagecoach line, and the town of Banning was named in his honor, and his Wilmington mansion is a state landmark.
Beauford Clay
Clay Beauford (born Welford Chapman Bridwell) was an American army officer, scout and frontiersman. An ex-Confederate soldier, he enlisted in the US Army during the Indian Wars against the Plains Indians. He was a guide for Lt Col George Crook in his "winter campaign" against the Apaches and received the Medal of Honor for his conduct. From 1874-77, Beauford served under indian agent John Clum as chief of scouts and captain of the San Carlos Apache Police. He and Clum are credited for the capture of Geronimo at Ojo Caliente in 1877. He became a successful rancher and prospector in the years following his retirement. A popular pioneering figure during his lifetime, Beauford was briefly elected to Arizona's territorial legislature in 1885 to represent Graham County. Mount Buford in Maricopa County is named in his honor.
Browning Tod
Tod Browning was a film actor and director, most famous for directing Dracula, and Freaks. Early jobs included traveling with carnivals and circuses, magician, dancer, and jockey. In 1915, he crashed his car into a moving train and passenger film actors Elmer Booth was killed and George Siegmann suffered serious injuries as did Browning.
Burbank David
David Burbank was a dentist, but in 1867 he bought 8,600 acres for a sheep ranch.
BurbankDavid
In 1886 he sold his land to a local developer who named the area Burbank, now headquarters for many media and entertainment companies.
Chance Frank
Frank Chance was a Hall of Fame baseball player. As player-manager of the Chicago Cubs, he guided them to four NL championships and two World Series wins in 1907 and 1908.
Chase Arline
She died from tuberculosis at age 25.
Chase Arline
Arline Chase was a dancer who helped popularize 'The Shimmy' during the World War I era. She toured vaudeville and was in the Broadway hits Very Good Eddie, Leave It to Jane, and The Night Boat.
Connell Trustrim
Corporal Trustrim Connell was an American soldier who enlisted into the 138th Pennsylvania Infantry and fought in the Civil War. Connell received the Medal of Honor for bravery during combat at the Battle of Sayler's Creek in Virginia on 6 April 1865, where he captured the enemy flag.
Cylinder
Cylinder.
Dolphy Eric
Eric Dolphy played jazz alto saxophone, flute, and bass clarinet. He played with Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Booker Little. 1964's Out to Lunch! is perhaps his finest album.
Fremont Jessie Benton
Jessie Ann Benton Frémont was an American writer and political activist. She was the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the wife of military officer, explorer, and politician John C. Frémont. She wrote many stories that were printed in popular magazines of the time as well as several books of historical value, as memoirs of her time in the American West. A strong supporter of her husband, who was one of the first two Senators of the new state of California and a Governor of the Territory of Arizona, she was outspoken on political issues and a determined opponent of slavery.
Glassell William
The Glassell family obelisk. The first two rows of blocks are Glassells.
Glassell William
William T. Glassell was an officer in the Confederate Navy during the US Civil War, and was one of the first combat submariners. He laid out the city of Orange, CA.
Glaum Louise
Louise Glaum was an actress, nicknamed "The Spider Woman".. Entering films in 1912, Glaum initially played comic ingenues, including a co-starring role in 35 episodes of the "Universal Ike" series in 1914. After winning critical praise for "Hell's Hinges" (1916), and "The Three Musketeers" (1916), she switched to vamp roles and became a star in such steamy (for the time) melodramas as "Shackled" (1918), "Love" (1920), and "Sex" (1920). The latter, her most famous film, caused controversy for its title alone. For a few years Glaum rivaled original sex siren Theda Bara in popularity, and one critic called her "The best actress of all the screen vamps".
Harper Arthur
Arthur Cyprian Harper was the 26th Mayor of Los Angeles, December 13, 1906 to March 11, 1909. He was forced to resign as a result of a recall drive. While mayor, he began work on the LA Civic Center. From the LA Times: Mayor Arthur C. Harper happens to be in all sorts of trouble. He’s telling the newspapers that he has had enough of politics and won’t seek another term. The district attorney is trying to shut down the local red light district and eventually these efforts will reveal allegations of City Hall corruption involving Harper, Police Chief Kern, a police commissioner, a police captain named Broadwood and Nicholas D. “Nick” Oswald, one of the biggest leaders of the city’s underworld.
Houghton Sherman
Sherman Otis Houghton mined gold during the California gold rush, then was Deputy Clerk of the State Supreme Court, then Mayor of San Jose, California 1855-56. He married a Donner party survivor, and when she died, he married her cousin, also a survivor. He was Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and was appointed Commissioner to investigate the affairs of the US Mint at San Francisco in 1881. The the Liberty Ship, SS Sherman O. Houghton was named after him. The Donner-Houghton House, a historic building in downtown San Jose, was built by Houghton in 1881.
Kellar Harry
Harry Kellar was a magician with large stage shows during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made the equivalent of $200,000 in Mexico in 1875. Harry Houdini talked him out of retirement for a final performance in 1917.
Maier Joseph
Joseph Maier purchased the Eintracht Saloon in Los Angeles. It was so successful that Maier partnered with George Zobelein and bought the nearby Philadelphia Brew House in 1881, which by 1905 was the largest brewery in the western US. After Maier's death, in 1906 Zobelein filed a lawsuit againt the Maier heirs, and won a settlement.
Marchesseault Damian
Damien Marchesseault (April 1, 1818 – January 20, 1868) was the seventh Mayor of Los Angeles from May 9, 1859 to May 9, 1860 and then again from January 7, 1861 to May 6, 1865. During his term as Water Overseer of LA, Marchesseault and a partner laid wooden water pipes that burst and turned streets into sinkholes. Struggling with heavy drinking and mounting gambling debts, he entered an empty LA City Hall Council chamber on Jan. 20, 1868, and shot himself.
McAleer Owen
Owen McAleer was the 36th Los Angeles Mayor, from 1904-06. He moved from Canada to Los Angeles via Ohio in the 1880s and built the first steam boiler in the city. As a city councilman, he helped bring water to the city, with planning of the LA Aqueduct in the Owens Valley River project. He was credited with establishing the first municipal playground - on Violet Street. He owned and trained driving horses, and as mayor set aside a stretch of West Washington Street for a mile west of Western Avenue for use by "drivers who delight in vying with each other off the racetrack." According to the LA Times, "policemen have been given to understand that some latitude be allowed horsemen there."
McDaniel Hattie
Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to earn an oscar, for her supporting role in Gone With The Wind. She wanted to be buried at Hollywood Forever, but racism, at the time, blocked that. Later, HF offered to move her, but her family declined - though there is a cenotaph marker there now.
Monohan Mable
Mabel Monohan was a murder victim, beaten up and strangled by several people who erroneously thought she had a safe full of money in her house. Three attackers were executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin. A heavily fictionalized movie, 1958's "I Want To Live", was made about the case. Susan Hayward won an Oscar for her tough but sympathetic portrayal of Barbara Graham, one of the murderers.
Moore Harry
Tim Moore played Kingfish on the Amos N Andy show, though he was better-known for stage and vaudeville work. He had only appeared in 3 previous films before coming out of retirement to play Kingfish.
Neilan Marshall
Marshall Ambrose Neilan was a driver for Biograph Studios execs, then was a silent film actor, later directing Mary Pickford in several films, and he wrote the original story for Howard Hughes' Wings.
Newberry JR
John Newberry founded and developed the chain of Newberry's grocery stores.
Newberry JR
John R Newberry.
Nichols John
John Nichols served two non-consecutive terms as mayor of Los Angeles in the 1850s, and his son was the first baby born in LA as an American citizen in 1851.
Nickerson William
William Nickerson Jr. was a prominent Los Angeles-based businessman and founder of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, which at one time was the largest black-owned business west of the Mississippi. The Nickerson Gardens housing development in Los Angeles is named after him.
Patterson John
John Patterson was British Army officer, author, and Zion activist. In 1898 he oversaw construction of a railway bridge, delayed while he had to hunt down man-eating lions. His book was the basis of the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness.
Powers Ridgley Ceylon
Ridgley Powers was a Union officer in the Civil War. Afterward, he was a Mississippi cotton planter, sheriff, Lt. Governor, and then that state's acting Governor from 1871 to 1874 following Governor Alcorn's resignation to become a Senator.
Powers Ridgley Ceylon
Rader Frank
Frank Rader served as the 22nd Mayor of Los Angeles from 1894 until 1896. He also was into real estate and he was one of the organizers and a director of the Southern California National bank. He was a 33rd degree Mason.
Rasputin Maria
Maria Rasputin was the daughter of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin and his wife Praskovia. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, she wrote several memoirs about her father's life and his associations with Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, and about his murder.
Razaf Andy
Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo was a poet, composer, and lyricist, famous for "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose". His pregnant mother fled to the US when France invaded Madagascar in the 1890's. At the age of 16 he quit school and took a job as an elevator operator at a Tin Pan Alley office building. A year later he penned his first song text, embarking on his career as a lyricist. During this time he would spend many nights in the Greyhound bus station in Times Square and would pick up his mail at the Gaiety Theatre office building which was considered the black Tin Pan Alley. In 1972, Razaf was recognized by his Tin Pan Alley peers in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Salisbury Monroe
Orange Salisbury Cash, as Monroe Salisbury, began his acting career on stage in 1898, frequently in romantic leads in 42 silent movies between 1914-22, many with director Cecil B. DeMille. His most famous part was that of Allesandro in the film "Ramona" (1916). He appeared in two talkies, in 1929 and 1930, before fading from Hollywood. In July, 1935, Salisbury was admitted to a hospital for the insane, his name unknown, listed as a hotel clerk. He died a month later after fracturing his skull in a fall, and was identified 2 days later by his sister.
Severance Caroline
Caroline Seymour Severence was a social reformer, suffragist and abolishionist. In 1911, she became the first woman to register to vote in California at the age of 91.
Severance Caroline
Shatto George
George Shatto bought Santa Catalina island, 26 miles offshore from the Los Angeles area and laid out the island's town, Avalon, which opened for tourism in 1888. He sold the property for economic reasons and went into other real estate ventures. The Good Samaritan Hospital at Wilshire and South Lucas occupies the land of his former mansion. Only the wall survives. He died in a minor train crash.
Skelton Elizabeth
At 2:40 AM on a dark night with gale-force winds, thick fog and high seas, the 471-foot Scotsman ran aground off Newfoundland. The passengers were all in bed, but most ran up to the deck after the ship hit the rocks. Elizabeth was put in the first lifeboat but unfortunately the plug hadn't been placed in the bottom of the boat. The lifeboat quickly filled with water and sank, and 11 women and children drowned. In the morning light, remaining passengers, including Elizabeth’s husband, climbed across ladders to the edge of the cliff the ship had landed on, and were later rescued. The ship’s crew, a replacement collection of “wharf-rat” scabs filing in during a seaman’s strike, looted all the valuables from the passengers and more than 20 were arrested.
Sloane Everett
Everett Sloane played Mr Bernstein in Citizen Kane, was in some TV shows, and was the voice of Adolf Hitler in the March of Time newsreels. His last role was of someone who was losing their sight and committed suicide. Both followed in real life.
Stephens William
William Dennison Stephens began to work as a traveling salesman and later as a grocery manager. In 1902, he became a partner in Carr and Stephens Groceries, giving Stephens wide name recognition throughout Los Angeles. Stephens became involved in business and municipal politics, and served on the board of directors of the LA Chamber of Commerce from 1902-1911, and was on the LA Board of Education from 1906-07. He served on the LA Board of Water Commissioners, working with William Mulholland for the LA Aqueduct. He was a three-term member of the US House of Representatives from 1911-1916, and he was the 24th governor of California from 1917-1923.
Tatum Art
Art Tatum was an American jazz pianist, widely considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time His performances were hailed for their technical proficiency and creativity, which set a new standard for jazz piano virtuosity. Tatum learned to play by ear, picking out church hymns by the age of three, learning tunes from the radio and copying piano roll recordings his mother owned. Popular hits include "Tea for Two" and "Tiger Rag. (Cenotaph).
Whitman Ernest
Ernest Whitman was an actor, in King for a Day, The Prisoner of Shark Island, The Green Pastures, Jesse James, Gone With the Wind, Among the Living, Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather, The Lost Weekend, My Brother Talk to Horses, Banjo and The Sun Shines Bright, his last film. He also was on TV's Beulah from 1952 to 1953, as Bill Jackson.
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Anderson Ivie

Anderson Ivie  29 views

Armstrong Henry

Armstrong Henry  8 views

Baker Edward Lee

Baker Edward Lee  29 views

Banning Phineas

Banning Phineas  78 views

Banning Phineas

Banning Phineas  77 views

Banning Phineas

Banning Phineas  76 views

Beauford Clay

Beauford Clay  18 views

Browning Tod

Browning Tod  78 views

Burbank David

Burbank David  28 views

BurbankDavid

BurbankDavid  28 views

Chance Frank

Chance Frank  28 views

Chase Arline

Chase Arline  75 views

Chase Arline

Chase Arline  76 views

Connell Trustrim

Connell Trustrim  8 views

Cylinder

Cylinder  71 views

Dolphy Eric

Dolphy Eric  22 views

Fremont Jessie Benton

Fremont Jessie Benton  2 views

Glassell William

Glassell William  19 views

Glassell William

Glassell William  19 views

Glaum Louise

Glaum Louise  9 views

Harper Arthur

Harper Arthur  7 views

Houghton Sherman

Houghton Sherman  6 views

Kellar Harry

Kellar Harry  19 views

Maier Joseph

Maier Joseph  9 views

Marchesseault Damian

Marchesseault Damian  8 views

McAleer Owen

McAleer Owen  6 views

McDaniel Hattie

McDaniel Hattie  18 views

Monohan Mable

Monohan Mable  7 views

Moore Harry

Moore Harry  21 views

Neilan Marshall

Neilan Marshall  22 views

Newberry JR

Newberry JR  70 views

Newberry JR

Newberry JR  66 views

Nichols John

Nichols John  23 views

Nickerson William

Nickerson William  12 views

Patterson John

Patterson John  20 views

Powers Ridgley Ceylon

Powers Ridgley Ceylon  12 views

Powers Ridgley Ceylon

Powers Ridgley Ceylon  10 views

Rader Frank

Rader Frank  11 views

Rasputin Maria

Rasputin Maria  10 views

Razaf Andy

Razaf Andy  19 views

Salisbury Monroe

Salisbury Monroe  8 views

Severance Caroline

Severance Caroline  20 views

Severance Caroline

Severance Caroline  18 views

Shatto George

Shatto George  24 views

Skelton Elizabeth

Skelton Elizabeth  1 view

Sloane Everett

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Stephens William

Stephens William  6 views

Tatum Art

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