Moses Sherman (1853-1932), the railroad magnate-cum-real estate mogul who put the “Sherman” in Sherman Oaks and Sherman Way, had the middle name Hazeltine. In fact it was a family name: records suggest that it was the surname of Sherman’s uncle by marriage. (That uncle’s first name? Moses.) Sherman even christened one of his two daughters Hazeltine (1886-1968), but it’s unclear whether he named this 1910 street specifically for her or as a general nod to his family. Sherman’s other daughter Lucy (1888-1959), whom he named after his own sister, has no such eponymous street. The two girls chose to live with their mother Harriet in San Francisco when the Shermans separated in the early 1900s; their half-brother Robert (1882-1931) joined their father in L.A. in 1902. Decades later, Hazeltine Sherman Keever, now an elderly childless divorcée, chose to be buried with her father at Forest Lawn.
Find it on the map:
