*** Source: Who's who in the Pacific Southwest: a compilation of authentic biographical sketches of citizens of Southern California and Arizona. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Print. & Binding House, 1913, 406 pgs. *** ---page 299--- Davis, Kemp & Post. Supreme Councilor and member of board of trustees, Fraternal Brotherhood. Republican. POST, Charles Nelson. Banker. Res. 285 Bellefontaine st., Pasadena, Cal. Born in Cambridge, Wis., Feb. 7, 1849; son of Charles F. and Huldah A. (Doolittle) Post. Married to Emma V. Sterling in 1873. Received public school education, left school at 12 years of age; at 16 took a course of bookkeeping at Eastman Business College, Chicago, graduating 1865. Bookkeeper for Lyon & Healy (music house), Chicago, Ill.; traveling salesman for same, 1872; organized and built their factory, 1889-90; became dir. and vice-pres. when firm was changed to corporation, 1900; after- wards pres., 1905-08; retired 1908 and moved to Pasadena; served as dir. Pasadena National Bank, 1910; vice-pres. 1910 to date. Pres. Annandale Country Club; dir. Troy Laundry Co.; Tournament Roses Assn.; Citizens' Assn.; Arroyo Park Assn. Vestryman All Saints' Church. PORTER, Florence Collins. Res. 1134 Mound ave., So. Pasadena, Cal. Born in Caribou, Me., Aug. 14, 1854; daughter of Samuel W. and Dorcas Sturdevant (Hardison) Collins. Married to Rev. Charles W. Porter in 1873. Educated in public schools and academy of Caribou, Me. Member of School Board, Caribou, Me., at age of twenty-seven (first woman to hold such a position in Me.); natl. secy. non-partisan W. C. T. U., 1884-88; has delivered addresses on social and religious questions; supt. schools, Caribou, Me., four years; owner and publisher of Aroostook Republican; active in club work; pres. Maine Federation of Woman's Clubs, 1898-1900; honorary pres. of same at present; moved to Los Angeles, Cal., 1900; on editorial staff of Los Angeles Herald four years; engaged in real estate business in So. Pasadena, Cal., sev- eral years. First vice-pres. Roosevelt Progressive League of Los Angeles Co. campaign, 1912; elected at state- wide primary as one of two women delegates to Chicago Republican Convention, 1912; first woman to vote in such a convention; presidential elector and first woman in Cal. to cast vote for president of U. S.; a suffragist from childhood; is interested espe- cially in child welfare work; pres. Political Equality League of Los Angeles Co., 1906-08. Member Ebell and Friday Morning clubs; So. Pasadena Woman's Improvement Assn. POTTENGER, Francis Marion. Physician and surgeon. Res. Monrovia, Cal.; office 1100-1 Title Insurance Bldg., Los Angeles. Cal. Born in Sater, O., Sept. 27, 1869; son of Thomas and Hannah Ellen (Sater) Pottenger. Married to Carrie Burtner in 1894; to Adelaide Gertrude Babbitt in 1900. Attended public schools, Sater, 0.; preparatory and collegiate depts., Otterbein Univ., Westerville, O., 1886-92, graduating Ph.B.; Ohio Medical College, 1892-93; Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, 1893-94; did post-graduate work in European hospitals, 1894-95; in New York, 1900; in Europe, 1905, 1907 and 1909; received A.M. from Otterbein Univ., Westerville, O., 1907; LL.D., 1909. Began practice of medicine in a suburb of Cincinnati, O., securing a hospital position and an assistantship in Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery; moved to Monrovia. Cal., in 1895; re- turned to Ohio after eighteen months; two years later, after wife's death, returned to Monrovia, Cal., and resumed practice; took post-graduate work in New York; specialized in tuberculosis from beginning of Los Angeles prac- tice in 1901; established Pottenger Sanatorium for diseases of lungs and throat, Monrovia, 1903, being pres. of the company and medical dir. of the Sanatorium; was instrumental in form- ing So. Cal. Anti-Tuberculosis League, and was its pres. 1903-06, and has always served on its board of directors; chief of staff of helping station for poor of the city, two years; has lectured throughout Cal. on tuberculosis. Author of monograph on "Muskelspasmus and Degeneration, ihre Bedeutung fur die Diagnose intrathorazischer Entzundungen als Kausalfaktor bei der Produktion von Veranderungen des knockernen Thorax, and Leichte Tastpalpation," published in Brauer's Beitrage zur Klinik Tuberkulose, Bld XXII, heft 1, which will be published in English in a short time by the C. V. Mosby Medical Book Co. of St. Louis, Mo.; has writ- ten many papers upon scientific aspects of tuberculosis. First lieut. Med. Reserve Corps U. S. Army; chairman Tuberculosis Committee of Med. Soc. of Cal., 1903-06; pres. Los Angeles Co. Med. Assn., 1906; asst. to Chair of Surgery, Cincinnati College of Med. & Surgery, 1895; lecturer on tubercu- losis and climatology, Med. Dept., Univ. of So. Cal., 1904-05; prof. clini- cal medicine, Med. Dept., Univ. of So. Cal., 1905-09; associate editor "So. Cal. Practitioner," to 1912. Member and ex- pres. Los Angeles County Med. Assn.; *** end ***