Building History

The Los Angeles Times reported in its issue of 09/10/1916: "The sale of an eight-room residence on Hobart boulevard between First and Second streets, to Harold Sturges, a railroad construction engineer of Central Mexico is reported by R.E. Ford, manager of the Wilshire department of the Janss Investment Company. The consideration is stated to have been $7,000. Mr. Sturges has been resident of Mexico for seventeen years but now plans to make Los Angeles his home.” (See “Engineer Buys Home,” Los Angeles Times, 09/10/1916, Real Estate and Development Section, Section V, p. 1.) A person named "Harold Sturges" had a Los Angeles address at 2805 Francis Avenue in 1917. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1917, p. 1939.) Harold Sturges (born 02/14/1858 in Duncan Falls, OH-d. 01/13/1929 in Los Angeles County, CA), the mining engineer, likely never lived in the Hobart boulevard dwelling, as he resided at 702 Tompkins Avenue in Rosebank, Staten Island, NY, in 1919. (See Ancestry,com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 746; Volume #: Roll 0746 - Certificates: 75000-75249, 11 Apr 1919-14 Apr 1919, accessed 02/03/2021.) He continued to live in NY State in 1921, when he applied for a US Passport. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Roll #: 1701; Volume #: Roll 1701 - Certificates: 69376-69749, 26 Jul 1921-27 Jul 1921, accessed 02/03/2021.)

He wed Malvena Emma Livingston on 06/20/1883 in San Francisco, CA. They had two children, Livingston Monroe Sturges and Rowena Spencer Sturges. The Sturgeses lived in Monterey, Mexico, in 1914, where worked as a mining engineer. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information U.S., Consular Registration Certificates, 1907-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013, accessed 02/03/2021.)

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