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23-477: The system contains a variety of material, including: books, audio/visual material, periodicals, and government documents. The Beale Memorial Library also contains special collections. These include: historical maps, historical photography, fine arts collection, genealogy, grant research, and local history. There is also a collection about local geology, mining, and petroleum. A library card is required for checking out material. All California residents are eligible for

46-416: A Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Dinner - Honoring Harry Chandler (1931) included this excerpt: At six feet two, Chandler was a big man, and many stories were told of his prowess in delivering papers, tussling with trade unionists, or pitching hay on one of his many ranches. A Congregationalist in religion, he abstained from alcohol, lived frugally, and commuted by foot whenever possible. His favorite charity

69-403: A dare, he jumped into a vat of starch that had frozen over during winter, which led to severe pneumonia . He withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Los Angeles for his health. In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that soon became responsible for also delivering many of the city's morning newspapers, which put him in contact with the publisher of

92-576: A library card. It also allows access to library resources over the internet. The first free library in the county was the Beale Memorial Library. It was created in 1900 by Mary Edwards Beale and her son Truxtun Beale . It was dedicated to the memory of their husband and father, General Edward Fitzgerald Beale . The Kern County Library System (originally called the Kern County Free Library) was organized on July 11, 1911. It would adopt

115-472: A syndicate of investors headed by Harry Chandler and Moses Sherman . Truxtun Beale spent his last years assembling his father's papers for an official biography and writing about foreign affairs. He died at his country home near Annapolis, Maryland and is buried in Bruton Parish Churchyard, Williamsburg, Virginia . [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in

138-455: A year later, Minister (afterward Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary) to Greece , Romania , and Serbia , making him ambassador to three countries at once. The years 1894-96 he devoted to travel in Siberia , Central Asia, and Chinese Turkestan. Many articles on international questions were contributed by him to reviews and magazines. On the death of his father in 1893, Beale inherited

161-505: The Los Angeles Times , Harrison Gray Otis , who liked the entrepreneurial young man and hired him as the Times ’ general manager. Harry married Otis's daughter, Marian Otis , in 1894, two years after the death of his first wife. The couple had six children together and also raised two daughters from Harry's first marriage. Upon Otis's death in 1917, Harry took over the reins as publisher of

184-735: The Los Angeles Times after Harry's death. Chandler Boulevard, a major street in the San Fernando Valley , is named after Harry Chandler. A dining hall was named in his honor at the California Institute of Technology in 1960. Sixty-one years later, the Caltech Board of Trustees voted in 2021 to have Chandler's name removed from the building for his involvement with the Human Betterment Foundation . The dining hall

207-482: The Los Angeles Times . They had a daughter, Francesca, born April 7, 1890, and a second daughter, Alice May, born July 24, 1892. Magdalena, whom Harry called "May," died at age 29 of puerperal fever two weeks after Alice May's birth on August 4, 1892. Chandler went on to marry Marian Otis in 1894. Francesca and Alice May were soon joined by Constance (born March 19, 1896), Ruth (October 15, 1897), Norman (September 14, 1899), Harrison Gray Otis (February 12, 1904) and

230-675: The Pennsylvania Military College , and four years later, after studying law at Columbia University , was admitted to the bar . From 1876 to 1877 Beale was secretary to his father the US Ambassador to Austria-Hungary in Vienna . Instead of practicing law, he became manager of his father's Tejon Ranch in California, where he remained for 13 years. In 1891 he was appointed by President Harrison United States Minister to Persia , and

253-822: The San Fernando Valley and the Hollywood Hills (Hollywoodland). The Hollywoodland sign was used to promote the development. Chandler's other real estate projects included Mulholland Drive , much of Dana Point , the Tejon Ranch (281,000 acres (1,140 km ) in Southern California), the Vermejo Park Ranch (340,000 acres (1,400 km ) in New Mexico), and the C&;M ranch (832,000 acres (3,370 km ) in northern Baja, Mexico). At one point, those investments made him

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276-907: The San Pedro Harbor , the Los Angeles Athletic Club , the California Club , The Pacific Electric Cars, the Los Angeles Art Association, the Santa Anita Park racetrack, the Los Angeles Steamship Company, the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park , and the restoration of downtown's Olvera Street . As a real estate investor, he was a partner in syndicates that owned and developed much of

299-445: The Times and transformed it into the leading newspaper in the West and at times the most successful. For three straight years in the 1920s, under his leadership, the Times led all other American newspapers in advertising space and in number of classified advertisements. As a community builder and large-scale real estate speculator, he became arguably the leading citizen of Los Angeles in

322-532: The public domain :  Colby, F.; Williams, T., eds. (1905). "Beale, Truxton". New International Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Harry Chandler Harry Chandler (May 17, 1864 – September 23, 1944) was an American newspaper publisher and investor . Harry Chandler was born in Landaff, New Hampshire , the eldest of four siblings born to Emma Jane ( née Little) and Moses Knight Chandler. He attended Dartmouth College , and on

345-469: The Beale Memorial Library as its headquarters. The existing building served the needs of the system until 1952, when it was destroyed by the Kern County earthquake . The new library was completed in 1957 and was used for the next 30 years. By the mid 1980s, that building became too small to hold the growing collection. In 1988, the library was moved to its current location at 701 Truxtun Ave. In addition to

368-721: The Beale Memorial Library in Downtown Bakersfield, there are 23 additional branches throughout Kern County. They include 6 branches that serve Greater Bakersfield. There are also two Bookmobiles that operate in Kern County. They are mobile libraries that travel to different locations in the county. One operates in Bakersfield and surrounding rural areas, while the other operates in the Kern River Valley . Truxtun Beale Truxtun Beale (March 6, 1856 – June 2, 1936)

391-736: The Tejon Ranch. In 1894 he married his first wife, Harriet Blaine of Maine (the daughter of James G. Blaine ), and together they had a son, Walker Blaine Beale (March 22, 1896 - September 18, 1918), a Lieutenant in the United States Army who was killed in action in France in World War I . After divorcing Blaine, Beale returned to California and began a law practice. On the death of his mother in 1903 he inherited Decatur House in Washington, D.C. In

414-722: The first half of the 20th century. Chandler was directly involved with helping to found the following: the Los Angeles Coliseum (and bringing the 1932 Summer Olympics to L.A.), the Biltmore Hotel , the Douglas Aircraft Company , the Hollywood Bowl , The Ambassador Hotel , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Automobile Club of Southern California , KHJ radio station, Trans World Airlines ,

437-486: The largest private landowner in the United States , and he was meanwhile an officer or director in 35 corporations, including oil, shipping, and banking, or other California corporations. Chandler was a notable supporter of eugenics during his time as president of the Los Angeles Times and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation , an organization that was headed by Ezra Gosney . A proclamation prepared for

460-596: The same year, on April 23, he married his second wife, Marie Oge of San Rafael, California in New York City . The marriage took place in New York City in order to avoid what a newspaper called "notoriety due to the shooting last year in San Francisco." The couple initially divided their time between Washington and California but settled permanently at Decatur House following Beale's decision in 1912 to sell Tejon Ranch to

483-461: The twins Helen and Philip (born February 17, 1907). His mansion in Los Feliz was owned many years later by Father Yod , and used by Yod's The Source Family . Chandler died on September 23, 1944, from a heart attack . He and Marian are buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Boulevard . Harrison Gray Otis's memorial is nearby. Harry's oldest son, Norman Chandler , took charge of

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506-470: Was an American diplomat. Beale was born in San Francisco to Mary Engle Edwards and Edward Fitzgerald Beale ; his siblings were Mary (1852–1925), who married Russian diplomat George Bakhmeteff , and Emily (1854–1912), who married John Roll McLean . He was named for his great-grandfather Commodore Thomas Truxtun . His maternal grandfather was U.S. Representative Samuel Edwards . In 1874 he graduated from

529-673: Was the Salvation Army . He was an indefatigable worker and forthright in his editorial positions. For his comments on the court decisions in certain labor cases still in the process of appeal, he was found guilty in 1938 on two counts of contempt of court but this conviction was overturned by the United States Supreme Court . For their role in the decision, Chandler and the Times won their first Pulitzer Prize . On February 6, 1888, Harry married Magdalena Schlador, whose brother worked at

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