Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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FRANCIS O. WYMAN, Los Angeles
 
Born Macedonia, Ohio, May 3, 1839. Educated in public schools and Western 
Reserve College, Ohio. Four years a soldier in the Civil war, Company A, 14th 
Ohio Vol. Inf.; was in many important battles and participated in the Grand 
Review at Washington. After the war, twenty-four years in drygoods business in 
Ohio, and twenty-five years in lime manufacture; was Pres. Genoa and Rocky Ridge 
Lime Company, headquarters at Toledo, Ohio. Came to California, 1886, and Los 
Angeles, 1888; organized Union Lime Co., of which Pres., leading manufacturers 
in Southern California (12,000 barrels monthly capacity); also Pres. Summit Lime 
Co. and Golden State Portland Cement Co. Married,. Aug. 25, 1868, Miss Mary E. 
Stephens, of Erie Co., Ohio; second marriage, July 29, 1875, to Miss Emma I. 
Bailey, of Circleville, Ohio, by which union there are three children.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.268