He was a member of this Academy for several years. He 

 was distinguisred as an educator and for the estabhshment of 

 parochial schools upon the tenets of his religion. 



The great activity and advanced prosperity of the Roman 

 Catholic Church in this Diocese are a monument to his zeal and 

 executive proficiency. 



Born, 1857, in Clarksville, Tennessee, Frank IMiddleton 

 Coulter, after graduating from the South West University, 

 entered the dry-goods firm of his father and uncle, B. F. 

 Coulter and Brother. 



In 1877, with his father he came to Los Angeles, where 

 his father built up the great dry goods company which bears 

 his name. Upon the death of B. F. Coulter, his son Frank 

 became the principal factor in the management of that great 

 establishment. 



He was a public-spirited man, liberal in his contributions 

 to aid the distressed and needy, and probably he had an ac- 

 quaintance more extended than that of any other person in Los 

 Angeles. 



He died from heart failure on October 26, 1915. 



Herman F. Hasse. died on October 29. 1915, at the Sol'iiprs' 

 Home near Santa Monica. Born on January 12. 1839 in Frei- 

 burg, Saxony, when nine years old be was brought to the 

 United States by his parents, who settled in Milwaukee. Wis- 

 consin. He studied for the Medical profession, in St. Louis. 

 Missouri, and later in several of the Universities of Europe, 

 receiving the Degree of M. D. in 1861. from the Universitv of 

 Wurzburg, Germany. Returning to the United States the same 

 vear, he was commissioned Second Assistant Suroeon in the 

 Ninth Wisconsin Regiment of Infantrv. and he served four 

 years of the \\'ar of the Rebellion, retiring from the armv m 

 June. 1865. with the rank of Surgeon .and the praise and grati- 

 tude of his commanding officers, for his most devoted labors 

 in ameliorating the sufferings of the sick and wounded. 



He commenced private practice in Milwaukee, whence lie 

 went to Arkansas and Missouri, but in 1885 he brought his 

 family to Los Angeles, where he resumed his professional work. 

 In 1888 he was appointed Chief Surgeon of the newly estab- 

 lished Soldiers' Home, and he gave most valuable work in the 

 organization of that Institution for those who. lile himself, ha 1 

 tendered their all for the preservation of the integrity of this 

 Nation. 



In 1905 he resigned this responsibility and. retiring from 

 the practice of his orofession. he entered the Scientific field of 

 Botany, devoting his princii:)al studies to the lichens of the 

 Pacific Coast. In 1913, the vSmithsonian Institution published 



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