Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Jevne, H. ************************************************ 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: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 June 30, 2009, 1:52 am Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910) H. JEVNE, LOS ANGELES Is a native of Norway. After an active business career of seventeen years in Chicago, came to Los Angeles in 1882. He started a small grocery store, and now has one of the most extensive houses of his line in the West. H. Jevne Co. now occupy a seven-story building at Broadway and Sixth street—perhaps the finest fitted and most "up-to-date" grocery store in the world, giving employment to nearly three hundred people. Dir. First Natl. Bank; also, identified with several other corporations, the most important of which are engaged in the production of crude petroleum. Charter mem. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' and Manufacturers' Assn. and the Municipal League, and mem. of all the leading clubs. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda ROBERT J. BURDETTE EDITOR THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO LOS ANGELES NEW YORK 1910 Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/photos/bios/jevne1366nbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/bios/jevne1366nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb