Francis Pierpont Davis Francis Pierpont Davis, who went by Pierpont Davis, was born in 1884 in
Baltimore,
Maryland to Frank Earlougher Davis, an architect, and Annie Legate Swindell. He was elder to three brothers, William, Walter, and Henry, and one sister, Dorothy. The family also had one servant. Pierpont attended
Baltimore City College for one year and the
Maryland Institute of Design, Engineering, and Mathematics for three. In 1907, he moved to
Los Angeles and in 1909, he married Gertrude Alberta Churchill in
Santa Monica, California. They had two kids together, and also lived with a nurse and a cook. From 1924 to 1925, Pierpont and Gertrude traveled across
Europe and
North Africa, with destinations that included the
British Isles,
France,
Italy,
Spain,
Switzerland,
Norway,
Sweden,
Denmark,
Tunisia,
Morocco,
Egypt, and
Algeria. Pierpont was a member of the
Allied Architects of Los Angeles and he also worked as Assistant to the
Chief Architect on the
Pentagon Project in
Washington, D.C. in 1941. He also served as president of the
Los Angeles City Art Commission Pierpont stool 5 foot 11.5 inches tall, had brown eyes and black hair, and had a scar over his left eye. He died in
Los Angeles in 1953. Walter attended
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for both his
bachelor's and
master's degrees, the formor of which he obtained in 1910 and the latter in 1911.
Henry Franklin Withey Henry Franklin Withey was born in 1880 in
Lynn,
Massachusetts to John F. Withey, a
printer,
farmer, and
laborer, and Martha Peckham Withey. Henry was the eldest of one brother and two sisters. Henry and his family moved to
Los Angeles sometime between 1900 and 1910. By 1920, Henry was married to Elsie Rathburn, an immigrant who came to the
United States in 1884 and was
naturalized in 1900. Elsie worked as an assistant in Henry's office and the two wrote the
Biographical Dictionary of American Architects together. Henry was 5 feet 10.5 inches tall and had blue eyes and brown hair. He died in 1969. == Selected works ==