Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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JAMES W. WARREN, 
 
Superintendent of the Electric Light Works, Los Angeles, was born in Sacramento, 
this State, July 30, 1850. His father, who had come to California in 1849, 
raised a company of volunteers on the breaking out of the great Rebellion, was 
commissioned Captain and killed during the action in Shenandoah Valley. The son 
attended the public schools of San Francisco, also the Lincoln Grammar School, 
and pursued his college course at McClure Academy, taking a practical course in 
civil engineering. For two years he was then connected with the engineering 
department of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; next he was the chief engineer 
of the Brush Electric Light Company, of San Francisco, and meanwhile made a 
special study of electricity. His next position was that of constructing 
engineer for the company, in which capacity he constructed the plants at 
Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. In 1882 he came to this city to build 
the works for the Los Angeles Electric Light Company, in which he was signally 
successful, and since that time he has held his present position, as noted. In 
1884 he was united in marriage with Miss Laura Bennett, of New York, and they 
have one son, Edward Garfield.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 833
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler