Named in 1906 on a tract owned by Beauregard Lee Bates (1861-1935), a Southern moniker if ever there was one. Bates was born into a large Tennessee farming family: his father Ezekiel sired seventeen surviving children with two consecutive wives. Beauregard, who went by “Lee”, was the youngest. I couldn’t dig up much other info on the man. He stayed with his mother and siblings at least through 1880, but in the 1900 census he was living alone in Fort Worth, TX and working in life insurance. He came to Los Angeles in 1904, as did his brother Clark – both were lifelong bachelors, both became real estate brokers – and their sister Adelia Dickey, a preacher’s wife. By 1914, the three siblings (Adelia was widowed by this point) were living together on the corner of Bates and Effie, and so it remained for the rest of their lives.
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