Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Guntrup, John 1854 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    JOHN GUNTRUP, secretary of the Golden State Plant & Floral Co.
(Incorporated), of Santa Monica, is a native of England and was born in
Wolverton, in 1854, a son of Thomas Guntrup, who for fifteen years was a
locomotive engineer for the London & Northwestern Ry. Co., running from Rugby to
London. The British Government then sent him to India and he ran out of Bombay
for about two and one half years. He then returned to England and in 1866 came
to America, located at Corning, N. Y., and was with the Erie Ry. Co. for several
years. He lived at Corning until he came to California with his son in the year
1885. He died at Santa Monica July 5th, 1908 The wife was, by maiden name, Mary
White She died at Corning, N. Y., in 1879. She was mother of ten children, of
whom four are living in New York.

    The subject of this sketch spent thirty-five years as a mechanic in Preston
& Heerman's Foundry and Machine Shop at Corning, N. Y., a portion of his young
manhood, commencing as an apprentice at sixteen years of age. He married at
Corning, Miss Emma L. Quandt, a native of Rochester, N. Y., and they have two
sons and two daughters—Mrs. E. B. Dequine, of Los Angeles; Mrs. F. J. Allington,
of Corning, N. Y.; Arthur J., of Corning, and William T., auditor for the Armour
Packing Co., at Richmond, Va. Mr. Guntrup was a member of the I. O. O. F. and
was a Maccabee. The Golden State Plant & Floral Co. (Inc.), of which Mr. Guntrup
was secretary, is one of the most extensive enterprises of its kind on the
Pacific Coast. It was incorporated April 28th, 1903, with a capital stock of
$25,000; T. H. Dudley, president; Victor E. Hathaway, vice president and general
manager. They occupy five acres of land, propagating a full line of general
nursery stock and making a specialty of palms and all varieties of ornamental
trees and shrubbery.


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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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