Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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URI EMBODY, 
 
Cashier of the East Side Bank, is one of the bright young business men of Los 
Angeles, with a future of rich promise. He was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 
1861, and is the second child of a family of three sons and four daughters. 
After attending the schools of his native town he continued his education in 
Cazenovia Seminary, New York, and Iowa State Agricultural College, where he took 
a special course with a view to qualifying himself for practical business life, 
and supplemented this with a course in the Minnesota State University, finishing 
in 1883. Having previously spent the years 1873 to 1876 in San Francisco, Mr. 
Embody had become enamored with the charms of the Golden State, and soon after 
leaving college started for the Pacific Coast, arriving in Los Angeles, 
September 22, 1883. From childhood his ideal and ambition was to become a 
business man; and from early youth he took charge of the family expenses and 
transacted the
banking and other business connected therewith. With a view to realizing his 
ideal, he, with others, organized the East Side Bank in the fall of 1886, and in 
November of that year its doors were opened for business with Mr. Embody as 
cashier, which office he still ably fills. But previous to entering upon the 
duties of that responsible position he spent several months in the Los Angeles 
National Bank to familiarize himself with the practical details of banking. Mr. 
Embody has traveled quite extensively, visiting and sojourning for longer or 
shorter periods in many of the States of the Union. He is a thorough business 
man both by intuition and training, and an affable social gentleman withal. His 
father, O. Embody, is a resident of Los Angeles, a retired business man, with a 
competence. Noyes S. Embody, the eldest son of the family, is a graduate of law, 
and expects to devote himself to the legal profession. He is a man of literary 
tastes, and is a member of the city board of education.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 736
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler