Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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MARK KEPPEL, Los Angeles
 
Born in Butte Co., Cal., Apr. 11, 1867; second in a family of eleven children; 
childhood spent upon the farm. Early education in public schools; at majority 
entered San Joaquin Valley Coll., paying his way by janitor service and labor as 
a harvest hand; grad. 1892 and began teaching in 1893. Served one year in alma 
mater, one year in Yolo Co. and seven years in Los Angeles city; elected County 
Superintendent of Schools in 1902 and 1906. Has an established reputation both 
as an educational authority and a public speaker. Married, 1894, Miss Mae 
Hubbard, representative of a pioneer family of California. They have one 
daughter�Esther Mae, now a student at the Polytechnic High School.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.86