Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Sibley, George (Mrs.) 1858 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    MRS. GEORGE SIBLEY is one of the essential factors in the business, social
and civic life of Venice, a woman of exceptional abilities and charming
personality. She is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, where she was born August 28th,
1858, a daughter of Alfred and Laura (Foot) Bright, both natives of the same
state. Her father died when a comparatively young man. Mrs. Sibley spent her
girlhood in Cleveland and, at eighteen years of age, married Mr. Henry W. Taft,
an own cousin of Hon. William H. Taft, ex-Secretary of War and, at the present
time (September, 1908), republican candidate for the Presidency. Mr. Taft died
in 1882 and the widow, with an only daughter, Irene, lived in retirement in
Cleveland for a period of about ten years. In 1891 she came to California and
located at Los Angeles. December 25th of the same year she married Mr. George
Sibley, then a wholesale merchant of Los Angeles. In May, 1900, Mrs. Sibley came
to the coast in quest of better health. After a season of relaxation and rest,
she caught the spirit of enterprise and business promise that marked the
founding and spontaneous growth of the embryo city of Ocean Park as a seaside
resort, and in her characteristically quiet way commenced the sale of real
estate. Her practical restoration to health and her great faith in the future of
the new town made her one of the most effective advocates of and successful
promoters on the beach and she soon laid the foundation for the extensive
business interests she today controls. In 1901 she opened offices on Pier avenue
and there continued in business until 1905. Meantime she incorporated the
Guarantee Realty Company and has continuously held the office of president
thereof. They purchased property in the then new city of Venice of America, at
the northeast corner of Windward avenue and Trolley-way and there erected the
Guarantee building, one of the most substantial business blocks in the now
famous city.    In 1906 the business was removed thereto.

    Mrs. Sibley is always found ready to forward any movement for the betterment
of Venice. She is an active worker in the Venice Chamber of Commerce, she is
president of the Pick and Shovel Club, an aggressive civic organization that has
done much for the civic and social growth of the city. She was one of the
organizers of the Ocean Park Country Club and first president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary.

    By her former marriage Mrs. Sibley has one daughter, Mrs. Irene Taft Loring,
wife of Howard S. Loring of Venice, and by her present marriage, she has one
daughter, Louella Marie Sibley. The family home in Walgrove is one of the most
spacious and substantial of that pretty Venice suburb. Mrs. Sibley, by reason of
her inherent honesty and business acumen, has accumulated a comfortable fortune
and is accorded a high place in the commercial world.


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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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