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The second oldest business in the City of Whittier is Rasmussen Iron Works. You probably know the business as Rasmussen Gas Logs & Grills which is prominently located on the southeast corner of Whittier Blvd. and Philadelphia St. Rasmus Rasmussen was an immigrant from Denmark. His family immigrated to the United States in 1878 when Rasmus was 9 years old. He grew up in Greenville Iowa and his family joined the First Friends Church. Rasmus started his own family in Greenville and had four children by 1906. He decided to try his luck in sunny Southern California in late 1906. …