Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Eakins, H. B. 1865 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

    HON. H. B. EAKINS, Mayor of Ocean Park, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in
the city of Philadelphia, September 15th, 1865. He there spent his youth,
attended the public schools and later passed through the University of Virginia
at Charlottesville, Va., from which institution he graduated in 1880. He
returned home and served an apprenticeship to the trade of watchmaking, which he
later followed in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. At Washington, he also held
a position for about three years in the weather bureau under the U. S.
Government. In 1887 he came west and spent two years in the Black Hills, South
Dakota. There he followed his trade and also became interested in mining, being
connected with the Home Stake Mining Company. He was also guard for the Wells
Fargo Express Company during the period of extensive shipments of gold bullion
from that district. Mr. Eakins also became interested, somewhat, in affairs of
state and active in issues involving the location of the state capitol, making a
systematic canvass of the country in the interests of the city of Pierre. At
that time, William Jennings Bryan was canvassing North Dakota for the Farmers'
Alliance and, as a matter of expediency, they joined issues, traveled together
and spoke from the same platform, Mr. Eakin usually following Mr. Bryan in the
presentation of his cause. He thus became intimately acquainted with the now
great "commoner" and candidate for the presidency.

    In 1891 he came to Los Angeles. Here he became interested in mining
properties in Arizona and also acquired an interest in and held a position with
the jewelry firm of Montgomery Brothers, which interest he still retains. While
with this house he personally installed the extensive time service of the Santa
Fe Railway Co. in Southern California. In 1904 he organized the Commercial
Warehouse Company (Incorporated), and is president thereof.

    He took up his place of residence in Ocean Park, No. 28 Club House Avenue,
in 1903. In April, 1908, Mr. Eakins was elected member of the Board of Trustees
of the city of Ocean Park and chosen President of the Board, by virtue of which
position he is the executive head of the city government.

    Mr. Eakins, in 1890, married at Black Hills, S. D., Miss Gertrude E. Beemer,
a native of Racine, Wis., and they have a son, Walter, and a daughter, Margaret.
Mr. Eakins is a member of the Southern California Lodge, No. 278, F. and A.M.


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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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