Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Miller, John Barnes 
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Author: W. C. Wolfe, Editor

  MILLER. John Barnes,: President Southern California Edison Company, Los
Angeles. Operator electric companies. Born Port Huron, Mich., October 23rd,
1869; son of John Edgar and Sarah Amelia (Barnes) Miller; graduated Ann Arbor,
Mich., High School, 1888; University of Michigan 1888-90; Honorary M. A.
University of Michigan 1923; married Carrie Borden Johnson of Yonkers, N. Y.,
April 17, 1895. Began as manager of his father's personal interests, 1890;
planter in Louisiana, 1892-94; steamboat and fuel business, Michigan, 1894-96;
came to Southern California and engaged in amalgamation of small light and power
companies and development of water power for long distance transmission;
President Edison Electric Co., 1901-09; President Southern California Edison
Co., 1909-18; Chairman Board of Directors 1918-20; President and Chairman since
1920; President Landowners' Company, San Joaquin & Eastern R. R. Co.; Director
First National Bank, Los Angeles, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., Federal
Telegraph Co. of Delaware; Florida Finance Corporation, Cinema Finance
Corporation; Trustee Polytechnic Elementary School, Pasadena; Harvard Military
School Los Angeles; American Field Service Fellowships for French Universities;
Southwest Museum, Los Angeles; Member Board of Incorporators American Red Cross
and Trustee of the Endowment Fund; Member Advisory Committee Pacific Division
American Red Cross; Director; Society Sons of the Revolution; Episcopalian;
Republican; Mason (K. T., Shriner). Clubs: California (Los Angeles); Midwick
Country (Pasadena); Santa Barbara Club (Santa Barbara); Pacific Union and
Bohemian (San Francisco); Chicago Club (Chicago); business address, Third and
Broadway, Los Angeles.

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Men of California
Western Personalities and their Affiliations
With Club Memberships and Civic Associations

ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF MEN
With Biographs of their Activities

Published by
WESTERN PRESS REPORTER, INC.
San Francisco - Los Angeles


Copyright, 1925, by
W. C. Wolfe, Managing Editor
In Collaboration with Assistants


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