Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Nellis, Clarence J. 1866 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

    CLARENCE J. NELL'S, leading merchant and representative citizen of Sawtelle,
is a native of Livingston County, Mo. He was born October 3rd, 1866, only son of
James J. Nellis, by profession a school teacher, now a resident of Sawtelle.

    Mr. Nellis spent his boyhood and attended the public schools in his native
town. At eighteen years of age he attended Park College, Parkville, Mo., near
Kansas City. He commenced his business career as a grocery salesman at
Chillicothe, Mo., remaining there seven years. He then went to Tacoma, Wash.,
and worked in the same capacity for Fulton & Cathcart until they retired from
business. He remained in Tacoma until the spring of 1889, when he went to Alaska
and engaged in mining on Forty Mile River. He located and worked claims in
Franklin Gulch and Napoleon Creek, both tributary thereto. His expedition was on
the whole a financial success. Mr. Nellis, coming to California in 1902, located
in Sawtelle, engaged in the grocery business and has built up an extensive trade
with one of the finest equipped stores in the Santa Monica Bay region. Mr.
Nellis is one of Sawtelle's most enterprising and progressive citizens and has
energetically worked for the advancement of the civic, business and social
interests of his city. Upon the resignation of F. C. Langdon from the Board of
City Trustees of Sawtelle, Mr. Nellis was appointed to fill the office and was
promptly chosen chairman of the board. As the executive head of the city
government he has made an enviable record, standing squarely for the enactment
of statutory and efficient code of practical working ordinances and a faithful
execution of the same.


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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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