Early Real Estate Broker and Developer of Los Angeles, California. A veteran of the Civil War, Leman T. Garnsey served under Gen. Daniel McCallum, commander of the military railways. He then worked in the petroleum and water business in Pennsylvania, and was a real estate broker in Binghamton, New York. Later, he was a dry goods merchant in Omaha, Nebraska and Chicago, Illinois. He came to Los Angeles in 1886, and invested wisely in Southern California real estate. He was the president of the Redondo Beach Improvement Company and the Redondo Hotel Company, as well as the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Company, which was later acquired by Henry E. Huntington. He was an early developer of the San Fernando Valley, and also for many years a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He maintained residences in Los Angeles and Binghamton, but after his wife's death he sold the property in New York and then resided at the California Club in Los Angeles, where he died at age 71.
Early Real Estate Broker and Developer of Los Angeles, California. A veteran of the Civil War, Leman T. Garnsey served under Gen. Daniel McCallum, commander of the military railways. He then worked in the petroleum and water business in Pennsylvania, and was a real estate broker in Binghamton, New York. Later, he was a dry goods merchant in Omaha, Nebraska and Chicago, Illinois. He came to Los Angeles in 1886, and invested wisely in Southern California real estate. He was the president of the Redondo Beach Improvement Company and the Redondo Hotel Company, as well as the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway Company, which was later acquired by Henry E. Huntington. He was an early developer of the San Fernando Valley, and also for many years a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He maintained residences in Los Angeles and Binghamton, but after his wife's death he sold the property in New York and then resided at the California Club in Los Angeles, where he died at age 71.
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