Journalist and poet George Morrow Mayo was born in Kentucky in 1896 or 1897. He worked as a railway clerk and was a parter in the Hy Art Master Plays Co. of Washington, D.C., served in the Navy during World War I, and wrote the poem "Sons of the Flag" before arriving in Los Angeles in the 1920s. From 1925 to 1931 Mayo worked for the Pasadena Star-News and also wrote for the Los Angeles Times. His iconoclastic history Los Angeles was published in 1933.
From the description of Los Angeles : manuscript, before 1933. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 704992770