Banker Frank Horn Vesper (1858-1943) co-owned at least one tract on which Vesper Street was first laid out c. 1915-1916. Vesper was born and raised in Rolling Prairie, WI, where he married the delightfully-named Eva Glendora Quick (1859-1938). The couple relocated to central Iowa and eventually settled in the little town of Algona, where their only child Orma was born in 1885. Vesper worked as the local train station agent and served as city councilman for nine years. He became a director at Algona’s First National Bank in 1895 and thus embarked upon a new career. A dozen years later, the family – along with Orma’s new husband Earl Naudain – came to Glendale, CA, where Vesper established the Bank of Glendale. (A cousin, funeral director Charles Vesper, moved to L.A. at the same time.) He remained its president until 1920, when the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank acquired the bank and demoted Vesper to assistant VP. That obviously didn’t sit well with him: he quit within a year.
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