Los Angeles High School Records, Graduates 1873 through 1885

Los Angeles High School

1873 - 1880

The Los Angeles High School began in 1873. It was the only public high school south of the Tehacapi Mountains for thirty-five years. The commercial department then branched out to form what became Polytechnic High School.

It drew students from all over Southern California and Arizona. There were seven students in the first graduating class.

Los Angeles now has over fifty senior high schools with graduating classes sometimes in excess of eight hundred students from areas with limited, confined boundaries.

The Los Angeles High School Alumni Association, 4650 West Olympic Blvd. maintains a file of all who have graduated during the more than a century since those first seven. Here are the graduates for the first ten years. Home towns, married names, as well as later achievements, are given when known. You can easily recognize famous leaders of our City and maybe an ancestor or two.

1875: 
Ida Addis (from Santa Barbara-Mrs. Storke); 
Addie Gates; Lilli Milliken (Mrs. Charles Coulter); 
Henry Leek (Henry Vander Leek); 
Henry O'Melveny (O'Melveny law firm); 
Mary Thomas; Jessie Peel (Mrs. Church).

1876: 
Mary Chauvin (Mrs. Sanford); 
Olive Gibson (nephew was Hugh Gibson); 
Eva Myers (Mrs. Eshelman); 
Helen White (Mrs. Tom Castile & Mrs. R.F.De Valle Rev).

1877: 
Ella Adams (Mrs. William Sippy); 
Birdie Austin (Mrs. West & Mrs. Hamilton); 
Fannie Benjamin (Mrs. D.A. Bucher); 
Fannie Bernstein (daughter Joseph Bernstein- Mrs. Herman Flateau); 
Kate Caystile (from San Fernando-Mrs. George Porter & Mrs. F.L. Boruff); Flatan); 
Edward Rimpau; 
Frank Rimpau; 
Emma Whisler (from Covina-Mrs. Gilson & Mrs. Egbert Judson Benedict); 
Nannie White (from Arizona-Mrs. Charles Northcraft); 
Charles Nelson Williams(from Glendale); 
George W. Williamson (from Downey).

1878: 
Betty Anderson (Mrs. Samuel Lewman); 
Ada Connor (Mrs. Charles Patten); 
Abram Edleman; 
Lulu Ferguson (Mrs. Hayes); 
Andrew Glassell (from Glendale); 
Hugh Glassell; 
Albertine Haley (Mrs. Pironi1); 
Fannie Kelisher (Mrs. Samuel Livingston); 
Claudina Rimpau; 
Nannie Straus (Mrs. Dunsmore),

1879:
Charles Bell (from Van Nuys); 
Arthur Bent (architect); 
Kate Brousseau (Professor of Philosophy); 
Ella Grid (from San Diego-Mrs. D.O. Lamb); 
Scott A. Chapman (architect); 
Mary E. Foy (1st woman librarian of Los Angeles); 
Jenice Greenbaum (Mrs. Simon S. Spier); 
George D. Howland; 
Nettie Morey (Mrs. J. Deming); 
Jessie Overman (from Arizona-Mrs. Charles Collins); 
Carrie Smith.

1880: 
Ada Biles (from Pismo Beach-Mrs. Harley Marshall); 
Albert Clapp (from Long Beach); 
Nellie Curtis (from Fresno-Mrs. Frank Short); 
Lula Entwhistle (from Sierra Madre-Mrs. George Letteau); 
Jessie Gibson (from Laguna Beach-Mrs. George Dunham); 
Ella Grosser; William Grosser; 
Edith Hadley (Mrs. O.K. Edwards); 
Maurice S. Heliman; 
Rebecca Laventhall (Mrs. Michael Voorsanger); 
Edwin A. Meserve; 
Sara C. Reese; 
Henrietta Rosson; 
Robert Strauss; 
Lizzie S. Phayer (Mrs. George Lathrop); 
Mamie Woodworth (Mrs. Clarence E. DeCamp.

1881: 
Mattie Coffman (Mrs. Herbert White); 
Linnie Austin (Mrs. George Heald); 
William C. Batcneller; 
Adele Behn; 
Birdie Cannon (from Lamb's Inn Ukiah-Mrs. Eversole); 
Bell Childs (Santa Clara-Mrs. Walter T. Knox); 
Lillie Chick (Mrs. W.R. Patton); 
Mattie Coffman (from Chino); 
Casper C. Cohn; 
Adele Condit(Mrs. John Bloeser); 
Josephine Dryden; 
Mary Gilday; 
Herman Heinsch; 
Bertha Hellman (Mrs. Meyberg); 
Evelyn Lothian (from Oakland-Mrs. Mock); 
Theodore Savage; 
Richard Stevens; 
H.R. Tibbetts; 
Alice Well; 
Lizzie Weston.

1882: 
John M. Averill; 
Ada Banows (Mrs. Rudolph Wigse); 
Elma Ball (from Pasadena-Mrs.H.I. Stuart); 
Hanna P. Ball (from Pasadena-Mrs. Fred R. Haius); 
Effie Baxter (Mrs. B. Brooks); 
Bentinick Boyd; 
Benjamin C. Bryant; 
Margaret Davis (Mrs. Walter B. Ralphs); 
Robert Dominguez; 
Fred W. Fisher; 
Emma Fleishman (Mrs. B.W. Felder); 
Frances Gebhard (Mrs. James Meyler); 
Mabel L, Hall (Mrs. Herbert Forsyth); 
Leland M. Kercheval; 
Jeannette Lazard (Mrs. Louis Lewin); 
Laura Meyer (Mrs. Max Loewenthal); 
Ella Newmark (Mrs. Carl Seligraan); 
Lowman Nevin (Edwin F.L. Nevin); 
Adele O'Melveny (Mrs. Adel Foy); 
Lizzie Pickering (Mrs. Mark A. Davids); 
Allie Richardson (from Beaumont-Mrs.Logan Seitz; Clara Stoltenberg; 
Laura Thomas (Mrs. Arthur F. Carter); 
Agness Wilson.

1883: 
Anna Alward (Mrs. Eames); 
Delia Baker; 
Minnie Baxter; 
Belle Borton (Mrs.Winterbottorn); 
Josephine Dol (from Altadena-Mrs.J.R. Ingram); 
Lucinda Foy (Mrs. Herron); 
Emma Grebe; 
Mary Greene; 
Ed J. Harper (Reverend); 
Louis Mendleson; 
Anna Morrison (Mrs. A.J. McClatchie); 
Loretta Newell (Mrs. Charles McPeek); 
Margaret Phillipson; 
Edmonia Price (from Glendale-Mrs. Wheatly James); 
William Rayn; Adolph Straus.

1884: 
Minnie L. Ames; 
Charles Bagg; 
Eva Byram (Mrs. J.M. Banker or Joe Bunker); 
Ben Coulter; 
Margaret Craig (Mrs. Wollacott); 
David Edleman; 
Annie Field (Mrs. A.S. Crickmore); 
Alice Fitch (Mrs. John F. Kanst); 
Rudolph Heinsch; 
Pearl Kent (Mrs Henry McClain); 
Herman Kirchhoff (owner Gypsum Produce); 
Albert Lang; 
Ella Leehler (Mrs. C.C. Leslie); 
Amanda Mathews (Mrs. Charles E. Chase); 
Harry Mayberry; 
Edward Milner; 
Christine Mueller (Mrs. C. Waldenfels); 
George J Philbin; 
Florence Potts (Mrs. M.L. Wick & Mrs. H.W. Davis); 
Guy Rose (from Pasadena-artist); 
Gertrude Taft (China missionary);
Helen Thornton (Mrs. Beebe); 
Nellie O Weston; 
Jesse Yarnell (Mrs. J.C. Kimball); 
John Frick

1885: 
Ada Baxter; 
Ina Baxter (Mrs. Berry Boal); 
Hattie Beckett (Mrs. Frefethen); 
F Berry Boal; 
Clinton Bradley; 
Edward Bradley; 
Jesse Burks; 
Lulu Frick (Mrs. Mark Pierce); 
Minnie Hamilton (Mrs. A.C, Harper); 
Arthur Harper (Mayor); 
Annie Hazeltine (Mrs. Fred Clark); 
Camille Hellman; 
Leslie Hewitt (City Attorney and State Senator); 
Charles Lantz; 
May McLellan (Mrs. Norman Martin); 
Alice Miller; 
Minnie Moody (Mrs. Bridges); 
Caroline Mueller (Mrs. George W Hunt); 
Lillie Newell (Mrs. L. McCusker); 
Marian Otis (Mrs. Harry Chandler, LA Times); 
Mary Ogden (Mrs. William Ryan); 
Edward Railton; 
Ellen Reavis; 
Thomas Rowan (opera singer); 
Ella Stoltenberg; 
Annie Tibbetts (Mrs. Frank Cooper).

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