George Shatto

George Rufus Shatto was an American real estate developer. He was an early land investor in Los Angeles, California. In 1887 he purchased Santa Catalina Island, California and was the first person to attempt to develop it into a resort destination.

Shatto was born in Medina County, Ohio. He married Clara Ruth Alward Clarissa Whitney in Flint, Michigan on August 15, 1876. They had one child together, Walter Ohl Shatto, who died eight months after his birth in 1881.

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