Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Haggarty, John Joseph May 25, 1864 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com July 11, 2010, 1:12 am Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages 50 - 51 Author: The Lewis Publishing Company JOHN JOSEPH HAGGARTY, proprietor of the New York Store, has been a Los Angeles merchant since 1902. He brought with him to the Pacific Coast a wealth of thorough experience in merchandising, but his cash capital when he and his wife reached Los Angeles amounted to only $100. After working for others to accumulate the modest sum of $2,500 he engaged in business for himself, and has built up one of the largest cloak and suit houses on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Haggarty was born in London, May 25, 1864, son of John and Elizabeth Ann (Atkinson) Haggarty. His environment until he was grown was in England. He attended public schools in London, and at Richmond in Yorkshire, and from 1883 until 1887 he availed himself of every opportunity to perfect his knowledge of merchandising. In 1887 he came to the United States and for six years was employed at St. Louis as buyer for large dry goods merchants, transferring his connections in 1893 to Duluth, Minnesota. Mr. Haggarty is well known in Zenith City, where he was actively identified with business affairs for nine years. Leaving Duluth, he came to Los Angeles in 1902, and for three and a half years was buyer and manager of the garment department of Jacoby Brothers. With the capital which he accumulated during that connection, as mentioned above, he started a small business of his own on Broadway, and subsequently incorporated the New York Cloak and Suit House, of which he has been president and chief stockholder. In a few years this business had exceeded a million dollars annually. From the New York Store he extended his interest to the control of the Paris Cloak and Suit House. Mr. Haggarty among his friends and associates is accounted one of the most cultured and well informed men in the West. He has traveled a great deal for business and pleasure, it having been his custom for many years to go abroad annually for business purposes. In his travels he has kept in touch with world politics as well as business, and has also used his opportunities to satisfy his taste for literature, painting and music. Mr. Haggarty married at St. Paul, Minnesota, August 24, 1901, Miss Bertha M. Schneider. Mr. Haggarty is a member of the Gamut Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the California Athletic Club, the Beach Club and the Pacific Coast Club, Long Beach, California. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/bios/haggarty1017gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb