Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm SHERMAN PEASE, Los Angeles Born Thompsonville, Conn., 1869. Came to Los Angeles 1884. Engaged furniture business 1885 to 1904, as Vice Pres. Niles Pease Furniture Co.; since 1906 Pres. Pease Bros. Furniture Co. Mem. Governor's staff, with rank of Colonel. Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner; also B. P. O. E. and Union League Club. SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.235