Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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J. A. WALLS, Los Angeles
 
Born in Buffalo, N. Y., where he received his early education; for about three 
years was in the office of Richardson, the great architect; professional work 
and study in New York supplemented by travel and observation, and in 1882 
located in Los Angeles, soon afterward entering the employ of Kysor & Morgan, of 
which he became a member upon the retirement of Mr. Kysor in 1888; upon the 
accession of Mr. Morgan's son (O. W.) to the firm, the style became, as at 
present, Morgan, Walls & Morgan. Mr. Walls has lately returned from a trip 
abroad, undertaken for the purpose of noting the present status of European 
architecture, and comes back duly appreciative of late foreign work, but, at the 
same time, firmly convinced that contemporary American architecture is 
unexcelled.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.227