Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Tullis, O. G. 1864 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    O. G. TULLIS, a resident of Santa Monica, a native of Bloomington, Ill., was
born October 16th, 1864, spent his youth and received his early education in his
native town. He came with his parents to Los Angeles in 1875. His father was
Andrew T. Tullis, a photographer, who for a time owned the old Sunbeam Gallery,
for many years one of the leading picture making establishments of old Los
Angeles. He finally retired to his ranch in Coldwater Canyon, where he died in
1877. A son, W. L. Tullis, now lives on the home place. Mrs. Tullis was, before
marriage, Matilda Bush, daughter of Michael Bush, a German. She was a sister of
the late venerable Charles Bush, one of the best known pioneers of Los Angeles.
She is living at the homestead in Coldwater Canyon. Mr. Tullis attended the
early schools of Los Angeles, first at Eighth and Fort Streets, now Broadway,
later in the old building that stood on the present site of the County Court House.

    He learned the manufacturing jewelers' trade of his uncle, the late Charles
Bush and his brother, Woodford B. Tullis, deceased, 1897. He was a prosperous
jeweler of Los Angeles, whose store was located at the corner of Fourth and
Spring Streets. Mr. Tullis came to Santa Monica and opened his shop in March,
1885. at 1426 Third Street, in the front room of the postoffice, when the late
Judge Boyce was postmaster, and is still doing business at the old stand.

    Mr. Tullis married in Los Angeles Miss Anna C. Berdini and they have one
daughter, Olive.

    Mr. Tullis is a Mason, Elk, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Forester and
Maccabee. He is one of the substantial merchants of Santa Monica.


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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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