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SURNAMES BEGINNING WITH E |
| Joseph H Eaton (ca 1877 - 1942) Vice President of Forest Lawn co.) |
| Martha Elliott (Mrs. Ralph L.) Died 30 April 1993. Los Angeles, California. |
| Ellen D Ellis (1830 - 1901) (Memorialized in the "Good Shepherd" window in Shatto Chapel.) |
| Grenville C Emery (Born 19 July 1843 - Ripley, Maine). Mr. Emery was the son of John G. and Mary Stanley (Jones) Emery. He married Ella Rhoda Pike in 1871. Mr. Emery was educated through the public schools of Maine. he attended Corrina Union Academy from 1858-1861. Main State Seminary from 1861 - 1864, the University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany from 1882 - 1883, and graduated from Bates College with an A. B. in 1868; He received an A. M. in 1860 and his Litt. D. in 1904. he taught in the winter public schools of Maine from 1864 - 1868; was an instructor of Maine State Seminary in 1869; Principal of the high school and Superintendent of Schools in Auburn, Maine from 1870 - 1871; Principal of the high School, Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1872; Sub-master at the Lawrence Grammar School of Boston, Massachusetts from 1872 - 1881; Was Master of the Boston Latin School from 1882 - 1897; and Principal of the Los Angeles Military Academy from 1897-1899. He established the Harvard School in 1900 and was headmaster of that institution. He was author "Academic Algebra" (1890); "Academic Algebra (teachers edition)" (1890; "Algebra for Beginners" (1894); "Key to Algebra for Beginners" (1896). he was a member of the National Education Association; Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America; Schoolmasters Club of Southern California; Automobile Club of Southern California; the Chamber of Commerce; and a Congregationalist. |
| George Endress |
| Dr. Henry Owen Eversole (died about 2 June 1963), Dr.
Eversole joined First church in 1892. His wife, Mary, was the
daughter of Eli P Clark, the generous donor of the Rose Window which
sits about the rear gallery of the Great Organs of First church and
graces us with its beauty. Dr. Eversole was a pioneer in chest
disease research and in environmental control of plant growth.
Dr. Eversole came to us from Middlefort, Ohio, after service to his country in the Spanish American War in the Philippines. After the war, he came to Los Angeles and was graduated from the Medical Division of USC in 1906. He devoted two years to post-graduate studies at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Berlin and Vienna, returning to Los Angeles to specialize in new techniques for handling chest diseases. During WWI, he was a Major in the American Red Cross, attached to Allied Forces supporting the White Russians in Siberia. From 1923 to 1927, Dr. Eversole was a member of the Rockefeller Foundation international staff, serving as European director of its Division of Medical Education. he returned to Los Angeles in 1929 and began intensive research in the environmental factors of plant culture. he experimented with the design of air-conditioned greenhouses and in the 1930's, helped Cal Tech design and construct a research greenhouse which allowed climatic factors influencing plant growth to be artificially created and regulated. |