A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . d. Locating at Bakers-field, he invested money in city property and alsobought farming land near by. A few years later,he came to Santa Monica, and at once began toidentify himself with the best and highest in-terests of the place, his business ability and tactbeing soon recognized and felt. With the growthand prosperity of Ocean Park, he has been in-timately associated from the time of its inception,being one of its principal civic promot
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . d. Locating at Bakers-field, he invested money in city property and alsobought farming land near by. A few years later,he came to Santa Monica, and at once began toidentify himself with the best and highest in-terests of the place, his business ability and tactbeing soon recognized and felt. With the growthand prosperity of Ocean Park, he has been in-timately associated from the time of its inception,being one of its principal civic promoters, andhis name, with that of Abbott Kinney, will beremembered for generations to come. In 1902Mr. Dudley assisted in organizing the OceanPark Bank, and has since served acceptably as itspresident, E. S. Tomblin being now the first vice-president, W. A. Penny the second vice-president,and P. J. Dudley, the cashier. Mr. Dudley alsohelped to organize the Merchants National Bankof Santa Monica, which was incorporated Sep-tember 23, 1903, and now occupies the hand-somest bank building in the county aside frombuildings of the kind in Los Angeles. Of this. .^a-u,CV HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RKCORD. 507 institution ]\Ir. Dudley has been president sinceits organization, William S. Vawter, serving asvice-president, and George F. Doty as Dudley has likewise large business interestsin the city of Los Angeles, and is connected withthe Altrchants Trust Company. He is likewiseprominent in fraternal circles, belonging to theMasons, and to the Benevolent Protective Orderof Elks. Mr. Dudley has been twice married. He wasmarried first, in Santa Monica, to Mary AddisonSmith, a daughter of Capt. Addison Smith, ofBaltimore, Md. His second marriage was withAirs. Matilda (Brooks) Ryan. HON. THOMAS ROBERT BARD. As aman of exceptional talent, high character, astatesman of eminent aliility, and a distin-guished lawmaker ex-Senator r>ard has leftthe impress of his !ndi^-i(luality
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