Los Angeles County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Alderson, Franklin Byron December 20 1902
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Los Angeles Times December 21, 1902 pg C4
California pioneer over the divide

Death of a well-known real estate operator

F. B. Alderson, Man of Integrity and Honored by His Friends, Called to His 
Final Reward Yesterday, After Long Illness

Death yesterday claimed a well-known and highly-respected citizen of Los 
Angeles, in the person of F. B. Alderson.

Coming to this city in 1882, in well-to-do-circumstances, Mr. Alderson at once 
entered into business, and to the day of his death had a fair share in the 
prosperity of the city.  His death occurred yesterday forenoon and was not 
unexpected, as he had been in failing health. He was one of those quiet, 
friendly gentlement, who make little commotion, but do a great deal, and he 
will be remembered as a man of strict integrity and a persistent worker at 
whatever he undertook, usually bringing success to his undertakings.

Franklin Byron Alderson was born in Pennyslvania in 1846 and came to California 
in 1868. For a number of years he was connected with enterprises of the late 
Collis P. Huntington in and about San Francisco, but finally removed to Nevada 
and entered with characteristic spirit into mining.  It was there he "made his 
stake" which he brought with him to Los Angeles, and soon became identified 
with many prominent development enterprises.

In conjunction with his brother, the late J. H. Alderson, he drilled one of the 
first oil wells on the West End hills, and continued operations many years in 
that field.  What is now the elegent residence section in the southwest portion 
of the city was then stock pastures, and several of these tracts he placed 
successfully on the market, and saw them built solidly to homes before he 
died.  He was a foremost authority on realty, but his tireless energy and 
intrepid enterprise finally led him into financial reverses, which, while they 
tended to break his health, never seemed to break his spirit.

He had not desire for political preferment, but in the early life he served as 
clerk of the courts in Marin county, and for several terms was United States 
Land Commissioner in the central part of this State.

The constancy of the many friends of Mr. Alderson was well illustrated in their 
solictude during his last illness.  Many of them will be shocked to learn of 
his sudden death, which was immediately cuased by a stroke of apoplexy, though 
his family had had no hope of his recovery for a long time, owing to 
complications of a serious nature.

A widow and four sons survive him.  L. Russell Alderson of Chicago, G. Edwin 
Alderson and F. Earl Alderson, who succeed to the business in this city, and L. 
Leslie Alderson.  The funeral will be held at the family residence, No. 2627 
Hobart avenue, on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

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