Burton E. Green
| Burton E. Green | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 6, 1868 Madison, Wisconsin |
| Died |
May 13, 1965 Los Angeles County, California |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Real estate developer |
| Spouse(s) | Lillian (Wellburn) Green |
| Children |
Dorothy (Dolly) Green Liliore Green Burton Green |
| Relatives | Olin Wellborn (father-in-law) |
Burton E. Green (1868-1965) 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] He moved to California with his family at the age of sixteen.[1]
Career
In 1900, together with Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), 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 Amalgated 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]
In 1901, he was one of the co-founders of the Associated Oil Company of California.[1] He later served as the President of the Bellridge Oil Company of Kern County.[1]
Personal life
He was married to Lillian Wellburn (1875-1957), daughter of Judge Olin Wellborn (1848-1921).[1][2] 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]
He died on May 13, 1965 in Los Angeles County, California, and he was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[2]
Legacy
The thoroughfare Burton Way in Beverly Hills is named in his honor, as is Greenway Drive.[10][11][12]
References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Marc Wanamaker, Early Beverly Hills, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005, pp. 17-18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 FindAGrave
- ↑ Marc Wanamaker, Beverly Hills, (Ca): 1930-2005, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 7
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Schwieterman, Joseph P. (2004). When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Western United States. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press. p. 29. ISBN 1931112134. OCLC 56968524.
- ↑ Jackson, Kenneth T. (1985). Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504983-7., p.179
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 David Gebhard, An Architectural Guidebook to Los Ángeles, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2003, p. 152
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Robert Winter, The Architecture of Entertainment: LA in the Twenties, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006, p. 55
- ↑ Myrna Oliver, Philanthropist 'Dolly' Green; Heiress Owned Thoroughbreds, The Los Angeles Times, September 05, 1990
- ↑ Liliore Green Rains House
- ↑ Google Maps: Burton Way
- ↑ City-Data: Burton Way
- ↑ Google Maps: Greenway Drive
Bibliography
- Gross, Michael. Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles (Broadway, 2011).
- Robinson, W.W.. 'Myth-Making in the Los Angeles Area', Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1, March 1963.