Edwin T. Earl
Edwin T. Earl (1858-1919) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and philanthropist.
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Biography
Early life
Edwin Tobias Earl was born on a fruit ranch near Red Bluff, California on May 30, 1858.[1] His father was Joseph Earl and his mother, Adelia Chaffee.[1][2][3] His brother was Guy Chaffee Earl.[1]
Career
He started his career in the shipping of fruits.[1] By 1886, he was President of the Earl Fruit Company.[2] In 1890, he invented the refrigerator car to transport fruits to the East Coast of the United States.[1][2][3] He established the Continental Fruit Express and invested US$2,000,000 in refrigerator cars.[1] In 1901, he sold his refrigerator cars to Armour and Company of Chicago and became a millionaire.[1][3]
In 1901, he purchased the Los Angeles Express and became its editor.[1][4] Ten years later, in 1911, he also purchased the Los Angeles Tribune.[1]
He also invested in real estate in Los Angeles.[1]
He was a Freemason, a member of the California Club and the Jonathan Club, two private member's clubs in Los Angeles, and the Bolsa Chica Gun Club.[1] He was a member of the California Republican Party and served as an advisor to Governor William Stephens (1859-1954).[2]
Philathropy
In 1901, he made a donation to the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California to start the Earl Lectures.[3] For more than a hundred years, it has featured distinguished guest speakers like Theodore Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Harry Emerson Fosdick and Cecil Williams.[3]
Personal life
He married to Emily Jarvis Earl of Louisville, Kentucky on April 30, 1902.[1][2] They had three sons, Jarvis, Edwin (1905-1981) and Chaffee, and one daughter, Emily.[1][2] They resided in Los Angeles, California.[1] He died on January 2, 1919 in Los Angeles.[1][2][3]
References
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- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 'Edwin T. Earl Dies in South', Sausalito News, Volume 35, Number 2, 11 January 1919 [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 FindAGrave
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Pacific School of Religion: Earl Lectures
- ↑ Kevin Starr, Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 241 [2]
