Inaugurated in 1906 on Young & Adams’s Sunrise Heights tract, this street honors Delworth Wilson Beswick (1868-1940), real estate agent at Young & Adams. Beswick, born and raised in Niles, MI, was admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD in 1883. After graduating seven years later, he held the rank of ensign and worked for the Navy even after his official retirement in 1896. That was the year he married Gertrude McKenzie Pendergast (1875-1934), a soprano from Massachusetts. The couple then spent a couple of years on the East Coast before relocating to Los Angles in 1899. Beswick was iniitially an assistant principal at a boys’ school here but gave it up for the realty trade; Gertrude, meanwhile, taught music. The marriage didn’t last: Gertrude filed for divorce in 1911, claiming that her husband “refused to work”, that he was “cranky” and “crazy”, and that he had called her “hog, liar, hypocrite”. She soon remarried. Del Beswick lived in Hermosa Beach through most of the 1920s and 1930s but was residing on Kenmore Ave. when he died.
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