Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Whipple, Charles Lee August 31, 1866 - August 26, 1926
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page 75
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     CHARLES LEE WHIPPLE was born in Deerfield, Randolph County, Indiana, 
August 31, 1866, and his death occurred August 26, 1926. His parents, Olney 
and Sally (Steele) Whipple, were sterling pioneer citizens of Randolph County, 
Indiana, and in that state they remained until their death. Mr. Whipple 
secured his education in the public schools of Portland, and Ridgeville 
College at Ridgeville, Indiana. In the autumn of 1891 he left Indiana and 
established his residence in Los Angeles where he became associated with the 
ownership and conducting of the Nadeau Hotel, which he continued to conduct 
until September, 1896, when he sold his interest therein to his partner and 
departed with his wife for Washington, D. C., where he engaged in the 
brokerage business. Four years later, in 1900, he returned to Los Angeles, and 
was for several years chief clerk of the Los Angeles Gas & Electric 
Corporation. He then identified himself with the real estate business of the 
firm of Strong & Dickinson, and with this concern he continued until his 
impaired health compelled his retirement, about four years prior to his death.

     By disposition and temperament Mr. Whipple was unassuming and retiring, 
but his was an intrinsic culture and refinement that found expression in all 
the relations of his earnest and kindly life — a life that marked him as a 
true gentleman. He was at all times exponent of the gracious virtues of 
simplicity and humility — ever the marks of that finer intellectual ken that 
places true values in the scheme of human thought and action. He was a 
veritable apostle of the genuine and the wholesome, was pure of heart, and his 
entire course was guided and governed by the loftiest ideals in thought, word 
and deed.

     On the 3d of January, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whipple 
and Miss Lucile A. Mesmer, a representative of one of the honored pioneer 
families of Los Angeles.

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