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BENT, Arthur S.Pres. of the Arthur S. Bent Construction Co.
Res. 165 E. Avenue 49, Highland Park, CA 90065; office Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.
Born in Downieville, Cal.; son of H. K. W. and Jennie Crawford Bent. Married to Eliza J. McKee.Educated in high school, Class of 1879, Los Angeles, Cal. Moved to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1869; was manager of Pacific Clay Mfg. Co. for five years; contracting on engineering works since 1886, and has been connected with most of the great irrigation and hydro-electric projects of the West; has constructed over 1000 miles of concrete pipe lines, besides dams, reservoirs, concrete tunnels and concrete water towers; has also built the complete sewer systems of several cities and the great trunk line at Bellingham, Wash.
Among other important contracts are eleven miles of concrete conduit, two feet in diameter, bringing water to Monterey, Mexico; a large reinforced concrete pumping station and twelve large concrete chimneys for the Standard Oil Co.; the new Sweetwater Dam at San Diego; about 100 miles of concrete pipe systems for the Sacramento Valley Irrigation Co. in Glenn county; the great irrigation enterprise of the Tucson Farms Co.; the Baldwin hydroelectric project in Mill Creek; the irrigation system of Palmdale and Little Rock Creek; the outfall sewer system of El Paso, Tex.
In partnership with G. F. Pennebaker; this company is also doing extensive asphalt paving and macadam roads construction in So. Cal.; and has built the model streets of Torrance and the oil macadam roads from El Monte to Pomona and the Harbor Blvd. from Los Angeles to Wilmington.
Member of Jonathan and Gamut clubs, dir. Municipal League; vice-pres. Engineers and Architects Association, dir. American Society of Engineering Contractors, National Cement Users' Assn., Southwest Museum Assn., National Geographic Society.
Source: Who's who in the Pacific Southwest: a compilation of authentic biographical sketches of citizens of Southern California and Arizona. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Print. & Binding House, 1913, 406 pgs.
Source: Transcript of Los Angeles High School Yearbook, 1903
