Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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LYNDEN ELLSWORTH BEHYMER, Los Angeles
 
Born at Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio, Nov. 5, 1862. Educated in public schools of 
Shelbyville, Ill.; engaged in mechanical and mercantile pursuits in Illinois and 
Dakota until coming to California in 1886; since 1892, manager and promoter of 
musical, dramatic and literary events in Los Angeles; fourteen years manager of 
Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, which (with Harley Hamilton) organized, and 
seventeen years manager Woman's Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Behymer is also manager 
of the Auditorium, Theater Beautiful, Simpson's Auditorium and the Great 
Philharmonic Course. Elected to French Academy and received decoration of "The 
Palms," March 1, 1908; active in all artistic and cultural movements to improve 
the city. Mem. Al Malaikah Temple, Knights of Mystic Shrine, Scottish Rite 
Mason, B. P. O. E. (No. 99), Gamut Club, Chamber of Commerce and M. & M. Assn. 
Married Menettie Sparkes, Fredonia, N. Y.. Jan. 3, 1885; three children, Enid, 
Elsie, Glen.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.60