The 1923 L.A. City Directory listed William Herbert Harwood (1857-1935) as department manager for the realty firm of Sunday, Merrick & Ruddick, the same guys who laid out Harwood Street on their Riverside Drive Gardens tract the year before, so there you have it. (Note that Harwood Street is last in an alphabetical group of streets, preceded by Duvall, Elmgrove, Fernleaf, and Gatewood. I don’t know that the other names meant anything to Sunday, Merrick & Ruddick. They may have just been aiming for generally bucolic-sounding street names and found that “Harwood” fit right in.) William Harwood spent most of his life in his home state of Iowa; initially a teacher, in 1885 he settled in Des Moines and got into the real estate loan and insurance biz. He and his wife Jennie (1859-1947) moved to Pasadena in 1921 to be closer to their only child Herbert, a salesman. Harwood ran a mortgage loan agency until retiring in 1930 – the year he and Jennie celebrated their golden anniversary. They spent their final years together on Crescent Heights Blvd.
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