Cylinder
Cylinder.
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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.
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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.
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Glassell William
The Glassell family obelisk. The first two rows of blocks are Glassells.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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