Howard Grosvenor Teale (1884-1958) was a realty man who ran the Grosvenor Inglis Corporation with George A. Bray. (Inglis was Bray’s mother’s maiden name.) In 1927, the partners developed the Mesmer City tract, christening Grosvenor Boulevard and Teale Street in the process. A native of Birmingham, England, Howard Teale immigrated to Kansas City in 1908 and married Elsie May Braecklein two years later. They were separated by 1921. (Elsie married Frank C. Dougherty the following year and settled in NorCal. Her son with Teale, Howard William, adopted his stepfather’s surname and became a prominent Pasadenan.) Teale himself came to Los Angeles around 1923 and soon entered business with Bray. He and his second wife Hazel Val Jean Caldwell (née Merrifield) were wed in 1926 and had no offspring. Teale quit real estate during the Great Depression – he was identified in the 1940 census as a flight instructor(!) and on his death certificate as a mining engineer.
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