Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Garland, William May March 31, 1866 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages 46 - 47
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     WILLIAM MAY GARLAND is a veteran of thirty years experience in the real 
estate business at Los Angeles. He was born at Westport, Maine, March 31, 
1866, son of Jonathan May and Rebecca (Jewett) Garland, both representing old 
families of New England.

     After finishing his course in the high school at Waterville, Maine, he 
spent about a year as an employe of J. H. Pierce Robertson & Company, a 
wholesale crockery business at Boston. He was then in Florida, assisting in 
his father's orange groves and in helping operate a stage line out of Daytona. 
For several years Mr. Garland lived in Chicago, and when he came to Los 
Angeles, in the winter of 1890, he resigned as receiving teller in the 
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. In Los Angeles he became an auditor of the 
Pacific Cable Railway Company, and in 1894 engaged in the real estate 
business. The W. M. Garland & Company, realtors, is one of the oldest firms in 
the city. It was Mr. Garland who in 1896 began the development of the Wilshire 
Boulevard Tract, being largely responsible for making it one of the finest 
residence sections of Los Angeles. He is a specialist in downtown business 
property and has handled some of the largest deals for the transfer of 
property. He is also a director of the Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank, 
formerly the Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank.

     Mr. Garland served three terms as president of the Los Angeles Realty 
Board and two terms as president of the National Association of Real Estate 
Boards. He represented the National Association as a dollar-a-year man at 
Washington during the World war, serving as a government negotiator and expert 
on real estate. Mr. Garland has been responsible for a great deal of publicity 
for Los Angeles.

     In 1923 Mr. Garland was the Pacific Coast delegate with two other 
Americans, to the International Olympic Committee that went to Rome and 
secured for 1932 the celebration of the Olympiad in the United States. This 
great event in the athletic world will be held in the Coliseum recently built 
at Exposition Park by the Community Development Association, of which Mr. 
Garland is president.  This building is three times as large as the old 
historic Coliseum in Rome which Mr. Garland visited while there.

     Mr. Garland is a former member of the Los Angeles Board of Education and 
the Public Library Board. From 1906 to 1910 he served as colonel on the staff 
of Governor Gillett of California. A Republican in politics, he was a delegate 
to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1900 which nominated 
McKinley and Roosevelt, and was a member of the notification committee that 
officially informed William McKinley at Canton, Ohio, of his nomination. He 
was also a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1924 at 
Cleveland, Ohio, which nominated Coolidge and Dawes. He is a member of the 
California Club, of which he was president in 1908, and has been president of 
the Los Angeles Athletic Club, of the Bolsa Chica Gun Club, the Crags Country 
Club, and is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, the Midwick Country 
Club, both of Los Angeles, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and the Union 
Interalliee of Paris, France.

     For more than twenty-five years he has been an active member of the Los 
Angeles Chamber of Commerce. By this latter institution, in conjunction with 
the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, the Los Angeles Clearing House, 
and the Los Angeles Realty Board, in February, 1923, he was presented a watch 
and awarded honor and recognition as the most useful citizen of Los Angeles 
during 1922.

     Mr. Garland married Miss S. Blanche Hinman at Dunkirk, New York, October 
12, 1898. She is a daughter of Marshall L. and Amanda M. Hinman. Mr. and Mrs. 
Garland take a prominent part in philanthropic activities, especially in 
behalf of the Children's Hospital and the Community Chest of Los Angeles, of 
which they are liberal patrons. Mr. and Mrs. Garland have two sons, William 
Marshall Garland and John Jewett Garland.

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