Burton E. Green

Burton E. Green
Burton Edmond Green
Born
Burton Edmond Green

(1868-09-06)September 6, 1868
Madison, Wisconsin
DiedMay 13, 1965(1965-05-13) (aged 96)
Los Angeles County, California
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
EducationBeaver Dam Academy, Los Angeles High School
Occupation(s)Oilman, real estate developer
SpouseLillian (Wellborn) Green
Children3
RelativesOlin Wellborn (father-in-law), Dolly Green (daughter)

Burton Edmond Green (September 6, 1868 – May 13, 1965) was an American oilman and real estate developer. He was critical in the development of Beverly Hills, California, and he is credited with naming it Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms in Massachusetts.

Early life

Burton Edmond Green was born on September 6, 1868, near Madison, Wisconsin.[1][2] His father was Richard Green and his mother, Amanda Hill (Bush) Green.[2] He attended the Beaver Dam Academy in Wisconsin.[2] He moved to California with his family in 1886, at the age of sixteen.[1] He graduated from the Los Angeles High School in 1889.[2]

Career

Green worked as an orange grower in Redlands, California for five years.[2] He then decided to return to Los Angeles and invest in the oil industry.[2] Together with Max Whittier (1867–1928), he established the Green & Whittier Oil Company and drilled oil in the Los Angeles area.[2] Shortly after, they started drilling near Bakersfield, California.[2] In 1905, the Green & Whittier Oil Company merged with two other oil companies to become the Associated Oil Company of California.[1][2] As a result, he served on the board of directors of the Associated Oil Company, later serving as its president.[2] He served as the President of the Bellridge Oil Company, which encompassed 32,000 acres of the Lost Hills Oil Field in Kern County, California.[1]

In 1900, together with Max Whittier, Charles A. Canfield (1848–1913), Frank H. Buck (1887–1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgamated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.[1] After drilling for oil and only finding water, they reorganized their business into the Rodeo Land and Water Company to develop a new residential town later known as Beverly Hills, California.[1][3][4][5] Green served as the President of the Rodeo Land and Water Company.[1][6][7] He called the new town Beverly Hills after his fond recollections of time spent in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.[1][4] He hired architects Wilbur David Cook and Myron Hunt to design the master plans of the city.[6][7]

Green was a large investor in the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company.[2] The company spanned 200,000 acres of timber land in Oregon and owned many wind mills in Oregon.[2] It also founded several towns in Oregon.[2]

Personal life

Green was married to Lillian Wellborn (1875-1957), the daughter of Judge Olin Wellborn (1848-1921).[1] They had three daughters: Dorothy (Dolly), Liliore, and Burton, who was named after her father.[1][8] Their daughter Dolly was a philanthropist and horsebreeder. The Liliore Green Rains Houses, one of the largest housing complexes on the campus of Stanford University, is named for their second daughter.[9]

Burton E. Green's residence in Beverly Hills, California

They resided in a Tudor Revival mansion at 1601 Lexington Road, North of the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Beverly Hills.[10][11][12] It was built in 1913–1914.[10][12] The Green family owned the house until the 1960s.[10] The house still stands, although it has been remodeled several times.[10]

Green was a member of the California Club, the Jonathan Club and Crags Country Club (ceased operations in 1936 and the lodge was torn down in 1955) in Los Angeles, as well as the Pacific-Union Club and the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, California.[2] Additionally, he enjoyed "hunting, fishing, golf[ing] and motoring" at the Los Angeles Country Club, the San Francisco Country Club, the Bolsa Chica Gun Club, the Flat Rock Club in Idaho, and the San Ysidro Rancho Co. in Mexico.[2]

Death

Green died on May 13, 1965, in Los Angeles County, California.[13]

Legacy

  • The thoroughfare Burton Way in Beverly Hills is named in his honor, as is Greenway Drive.[14][15][16]
  • The CII Burton E. Green Campus of the Children's Institute Inc. in Torrance, California, is named in his honor.[17]
  • The Burton E. Green Professor of Pediatric Neuropathology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles is named in his honor.[18] It has been held by Floyd H. Gilles since 1982.[18]
  • The Burton E. Green Public Policy and Leadership Award is granted to a Beverly Hills High School Student each year.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Marc Wanamaker, Early Beverly Hills, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005, pp. 17-18 [1]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Notables of the West, Press Reference Library: Western Edition, 1913, volume I, p. 112 [2]
  3. ^ Marc Wanamaker, Beverly Hills, (Ca): 1930-2005, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 7 [3]
  4. ^ a b Schwieterman, Joseph P. (2004). When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Western United States. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-931112-13-0. OL 8801889M.
  5. ^ Jackson, Kenneth T. (1985). Crabgrass frontier: The suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504983-7. OCLC 11785435., p.179
  6. ^ a b David Gebhard, An Architectural Guidebook to Los Ángeles, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2003, p. 152 [4]
  7. ^ a b Robert Winter, The Architecture of Entertainment: LA in the Twenties, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006, p. 55 [5]
  8. ^ Myrna Oliver, Philanthropist 'Dolly' Green; Heiress Owned Thoroughbreds, the Los Angeles Times, September 05, 1990
  9. ^ Liliore Green Rains House
  10. ^ a b c d Peter Halderman, Affinity for Opulence: Paying Tribute to a Founder of Beverly Hills With a Remake of His Former Estate, Architectural Digest
  11. ^ USC Libraries: Composite view of Burton E. Green's residence in Beverly Hills from a real estate pamphlet
  12. ^ a b City of Beverly Hills: Historic Resources Inventory
  13. ^ The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Edited by Distinguished Biographers, Selected from Each State, Revised and Approved by the Most Eminent Historians, Scholars, and Statesmen of the Day. J. T. White Company. 1969.
  14. ^ Google Maps: Burton Way
  15. ^ City-Data: Burton Way
  16. ^ Google Maps: Greenway Drive
  17. ^ Children's Institute Inc.: Locations
  18. ^ a b Press Release Archives: Floyd H. Gilles, M.D., Named Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Archived December 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

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