Jacob Lamb Doty (1869-1949) partnered with Morris S. Kornblum and Nicholas J. Cordary on the 1910 tract that introduced this street just south of present-day El Segundo Blvd. Although our subject was an Angeleno at the time, his spiritual home was Polynesia. J. Lamb Doty was born in Brooklyn, grew up in D.C., and was a Congressional page in his adolescence. Thanks to family connections, in 1888 he was appointed U.S. consul to Tahiti – an impressive feat, as Doty wasn’t yet 19 years old. He was stationed there for years and married Maeva Raoul (1872-1955), a French Polynesian girl from the nearby island of Moorea, in 1895. In 1908, shortly after their eldest daughter Frances perished from typhoid, the couple and their five surviving children left Tahiti for Los Angeles, where their youngest daughter Wilhemina was born. Here Doty dabbled in sugar, oil, water, and real estate companies until he found a higher calling and was ordained as an Episcopal deacon in 1913. He worked at a couple of L.A. churches before achieving the priesthood and taking his family to Hilo, Hawaii in 1918 to run his own church. He and Maeva eventually wound up in Honolulu, as did their two sons; their four daughters lived out their own lives on Maui.
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