Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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W. U. MASTERS, 
 
President of the Board of Trade, etc., Pasadena, was, before his health failed, 
extensively engaged in the iron business in Cleveland, Ohio, his native place. 
After traveling for about three years in Europe and Africa, he came, in the 
winter of 1874, to Pasadena, for his health, but most of the time for the first 
two years he traveled in this State. In 1877 he was appointed postmaster at 
Pasadena, when the business of the office was comparatively large and the 
facilities for transacting very limited. From his own pocket he paid for 
additional improvements and more assistants, until he could properly handle the 
rapidly increasing mail. For this he has been but partially reimbursed; but, 
more important than this to him, he feels that he successfully carried out his 
determination to give the people good service, and he asks no further reward. 
The writer has it from both Republican and Democratic sources that he did most 
excellent service. He is one of the organizers of the Pasadena Board of Trade, 
and is now its president; is also president of the Pickwick and Union Clubs, a 
stockholder in the First National and San Gabriel Valley banks, and largely 
interested in several other enterprises of a more private character. Probably no 
one in the city has done so much toward the entertainment of prominent Eastern 
tourists as Mr. Masters, and to him the place is largely indebted for its 
present advancement.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 777
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler