Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Avakian, John Caspar 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

JOHN CASPAR AVAKIAN, LOS ANGELES
Born Harpoot, Armenia, Mar. 1, 1875; his father, for forty-three years Dean
Faculty of Euphrates Coll., that city. Early education in that institution; came
to U. S., 1888; completed preparatory courses in Troy (N. Y.) public school and
Cook Academy, Montour Fails (N. Y.), and finished freshman year at Colgate
University. Lectured, 1895-7, in Canada and the eastern U. S. in behalf of
persecuted Christians in Ottoman Empire; commercial traveler in New England
States, 1897-8; student Rensselaer Poly. Ins., 1898-1902 (grad. with degree C.
E.). From graduation to Apr., 1903, asst. eng. Lehigh Valley R. R. and locating
eng. Buffalo, Dunkirk & Western R. R. Moved to Los Angeles; asst. eng. (U. S.
Reclamation Service) on Yuma project, Ariz., and Klamath project, Ore., 1903-6;
June, 1906, opened office In Los Angeles; Oct., 1908, organized Riverside Groves
& Water Co. (capital, $1,000,000), of which he is Pres., Gen'l Mang'r and Chief
Engineer. Assoc. mem. A. S. C. E.


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THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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