Mark W. Nelson, Henry Gaylord Wilshire, Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Sprg 2014), pp. 41-85
Contents:
- HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE (1861-1927)
- “SHEEP’S BRAS OR HUMAN?”: A PROSPECT FOR GAYLORD WILSHIRE’S GOLD ME, LOS ANGEL, OCTOBER 1915
- HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE
- H. GAYLORD WILSHIRE: THE MILLNAIRE SOCIALIST
HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE (1861-1927)
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Wilshire Boulevard got s name om a flamboyant character named Henry Gaylord Wilshire.
Gaylord Wilshire had many pursus his lifetime. For more rmatn about Gaylord Wilshire, see the fantastic book Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Conurse of Los Angel and/or this blog post by Jam Col Campbell.
“SHEEP’S BRAS OR HUMAN?”: A PROSPECT FOR GAYLORD WILSHIRE’S GOLD ME, LOS ANGEL, OCTOBER 1915
Henry Gaylord Wilshire on JSTOR.
HENRY GAYLORD WILSHIRE
One of the more notable and unual figur the regn om the 1880s through the 1920s was Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927) and today’s featured object om the Homtead’s llectn is a prospect for his Gaylord Gold Me, issued October 1915. When Wilshire’s much olr brother, William, head wt to San Francis, Gaylord, who first worked as a clerk his father’s bank, joed his siblg.
H. GAYLORD WILSHIRE: THE MILLNAIRE SOCIALIST
William owned the prospero Wilshire Safe and Sle Company and Gaylord was associated wh the enterprise.
The Wilshire fay’s enumeratn the 1870 feral cens at Ccnati, where Gaylord’s father, Gee, was listed as a retired merchant wh self-clared assets of $400, 000, a substantial sum for the era. For those unaware of how this appellatn me to be applied to the name, he proclaimed “I n tell you, for was my dog, for I am the Wilshire—Gaylord Wilshire. Wilshire, his send wife Mary McReynolds, their son Logan, Mary’s mother and two servants at their Pasana hoehold the 1920 feral cens, which lists Gaylord as “pri[nt] gold me.