Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Mesmer, Joseph 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

JOSEPH MESMER, LOS ANGELES
Born Tippecanoe City, Miami Co., Ohio, Nov. 8, 1855. Lived in Los Angeles since
1859. Public school education. In 1878, at 158-60 North Main St., founded Queen
Shoe Store; for twenty-eight consecutive years continued as shoe merchant; since
1906 engaged in manufacturing; Pres. St. Louis Fire Brick & Clay Co. In 1904
secured site for new government building, for which, through voluntary
subscriptions, he raised $281,000, of which $65,000 was returned to subscribers;
Pres. Los Angeles River Improvement Commission; always prominent in that public
work; considered one of the builders of modern Los Angeles. Mem. California and
Jonathan Clubs.


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ROBERT J. BURDETTE
EDITOR

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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