The Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas of which Ed Von Tobel, Sr. was a charter member. In the photo many old-time community leaders can be identified. Left to right: 1) Victor Shurtleff, 2) Fred Bartlett, 3) Mrs. Stella Fleming, Clark County Welfare director, 4) Ed Von Tobel, Sr., 5) Bert Purdy, 6) Herb Kraus, 7) V. Gray Gubler, 8) Monsignor Donald Carmody, 9) Dr. Hale B. Slavin, 10) David Farnsworth, 11) James H. Down, Sr., 12) Judge A.S. Henderson, 13) Robert B. Griffith, 14) The Rev. Ford L. Gilbert, Methodist Church pastor, 15) Otto Kimball, 16) I.R. "Cy" Crandall, and 17) George "Bud" Albright. Physical object has an insert containing additional biographical information.
Harley A. Harmon was born in 1882 in Wier City, Kansas. His father, Elmer Harmon, was an attorney who moved the family to Los Angeles, California when Harmon was nine years old. In 1903, Harley A. Harmon unsuccessfully ran for Los Angeles City Clerk. In 1905, Harley A. Harmon joined the Union Pacific Railroad as an engineer and drove one of the first construction trains to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Harley A. Harmon was stationed in 1908.