Los Angeles-San Diego County CA Archives Biographies.....Bontty, Edward F. 1877 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    EDWARD F. BONTTY is a native of Oregon, born at Portland, February 7th,
1877. His father, Joseph Bontty, is a Bohemian by birth, was born in Austria and
came to America at twenty-five years of age and located at Portland, where he
engaged in the building business. He lived in Santa Monica from 1885 to 1905 and
engaged in the grocery business; he also became interested in some successful
real estate deals. He then removed to San Diego, where he is now engaged in the
grocery business. He has two sons and one daughter. One son, Joseph, is a
conductor in the employ of the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Ry. Co. The
daughter, Sebaldeni, is Mrs. R. R. Tanner, of Santa Monica. Mr. Bontty came to
Santa Monica with his family in 1883. Here he attended the public schools, was
for several years salesman in his father's grocery, the first store opened at
what was originally known as South Santa Monica. This covered the years 1898 to
1905. Mr. Bontty was a conductor four years for the Los Angeles Pacific Ry. Co.,
which position he resigned and in April, 1906, opened his present store—fish,
poultry and game—on Utah Avenue, between Second and Third Streets.

    Mr. Bontty married September 4th, 1903, Miss Alice Novetny, of Chicago. They
have one son, Richard Robert Bontty. Mr. Bontty is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and an Eagle.


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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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