On this day in 1916, Jesse W. Doty purchased Newhall’s White Star Garage from the estate of Arthur C. Atherton, later turning the garage into a Ford dealer for the Santa Clarita Valley. Born on April 15, 1888, in Cambria, California, Jesse Doty moved to Newhall in 1914, where he worked as an auto mechanic at the C.K. Graham Newhall ...

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