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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    MAJOR E. H. BAKER, the Superintendent, a native of Maine, was educated in
Chicago and New York. His military training was acquired in the National Guard
and in military schools. He has had twenty-three years experience as Commandant
and Superintendent of military boarding schools in New England, the Middle
States, the Mississippi Valley and California. He came to Los Angeles in the
spring of 1905 with the intention of opening a military academy similar to the
best schools in the east. Having thoroughly canvassed the vicinity of that city,
he selected Santa Monica as offering the most and greatest advantages for a
boy's boarding school. He secured a lease of the well known Hotel Arcadia
property for a term and opened the Academy in a military camp September, 1906.
Acting as Superintendent he has conducted the affairs of the institution since
that date. With the co-operation of Professor Bishop and Mr. Roy Jones, he
organized the Academy Corporation, which has a fifty years charter and an
authorized capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars. This insures the
permanence and high quality of the institution.

    Bartlett R. Bishop was born December 25th, 1879, at Ashland, Hanover County,
Virginia. He was reared in the States of Missouri and Virginia, entering William
Jewell College (Liberty, Missouri) in the fall of 1896, at the age of sixteen
years. He specialized in science, graduating from William Jewell College, June
13th, 1900. He has received the degree of A. B. He has traveled extensively
throughout the United States and in Old Mexico. He has wide acquaintance
throughout the states, particularly on the Atlantic and Pacific Slopes. For some
time he occupied the position of solicitor for the Snoqualmie Falls Power
Company, being one of the four members of the board which established the power
and light rating of Seattle. He was also statistician for the Hallidie Machinery
Company of the same city, and was connected with various other mercantile
establishments He has an extensive experience in the law departments and
scientific work and has taught for three years in military academies. In the
fall of 1906 he returned to Los Angeles to co-operate with Major Baker in the
launching of the California Military Academy. He is now secretary of the Board
of Directors and Principal (Head of Scholastics) of this institution.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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