Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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W. S. DAUBENSPECK, 
 
contractor and builder, 42 Grand avenue, Los Angeles, is a native of Schuylkill 
County, Pennsylvania, and was born June 14, 1847.  During boyhood he attended 
the common schools, and entered the army when sixteen years of age, serving in 
the Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served an apprenticeship 
to the trade of carpenter and joiner, and began contracting in Allentown and 
Scranton before reaching his majority. In October, 1871, he set out for the 
Pacific Coast, and reached Chicago at the time of the great fire, and decided to 
remain there. He entered the employ of Goss & Philipps, the largest 
manufacturing firm of sash and doors in the city, and was assistant 
superintendent of their mills for twelve years. He was superintendent of the 
mills of Badenoch Brothers until 1887, when he came to Los Angeles and engaged 
in contracting. Among the many fine residences he has taken contracts for and 
erected are those
of Mr. R. Larkins, 42 Grand avenue; Mr. J. F. Cosby, corner of Figaroa street 
and Brooklyn avenue; Mr. Allen, of the Times, corner of Pearl and Ninth streets; 
J. B. Winston, Angelina Heights; Dr. Pierport, on Ellis avenue, and many others. 
He has the contract for the First Congregational Church, corner of Sixth and 
Hill streets, one of the finest in the city. He has had a large practical 
experience in the building and lumber trade. Mr. Daubenspeck was married 
November 23, 1880, to Miss Augusta Judd, a native of Michigan, and a 
step�daughter of Robert Larkins, of this city. Since coming here they have lost 
their only daughter, Olive, a very attractive child.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 443
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler