History of Pasadena, comprising an account of the native Indian, the early Spanish, the Mexican, the American, the colony, and the incorporated city, occupancies of the Rancho San Pasqual, and its adjacent mountains, canyons, waterfalls and other objects of interest: being a complete and comprehensive histo-cyclopedia of all matters pertaining to this region, Part 18

Author: Reid, Hiram Alvin, 1834-; McClatchie, Alfred James, comp
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Pasadena, Cal., Pasadena History Co.
Number of Pages: 714

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fore foot to bleed him-then he jumped up and started down the canyon, I holding on with all my might, and for about a hundred feet on the slope there was a mixed up mess of deer and man, each on top by turns. How- ever, I finally triumphed, and had venison for supper ; but ever after that I

CORRECTION SLIP [to face page 128].

On page 128, 6th and 7th lines from bottom [footnotes] there is an editorial note in brackets at which Judge Eaton felt aggrieved, and thought it erroneous, and also unjust toward him upon a matter in which he had taken a good deal of pride. Hence I "rise to explain." Now, that "NOTE" was based on what I had written, as printed on pages 336-37, about B. D. Wilson's ope- rations at Alhambra, upon information gathered from Mr. and Mrs. Shorb, and from Mr. Wilson's MSS autobiography, and from his step-son, E. S. Hereford, Esq., of San Gabriel. Mr. Wilson knew of Shorb having iron-piped water from a canyon at Camulos in 1864 to supply the boiler for his steam engine, and then extending it to his house for domestic uses and also to irrigate the trees, flowers and shrubbery growing there; and it was because he fully believed the same thing could be profitably done on a large scale that he ventured to buy in 1871 the waterless and worthless block of school lands now called Alhambra. His plan and purpose to pipe water onto that land was talked over and well understood in the family when the purchase was made; but on account of various other large enterprises in which Mr. Wilson was then engaged, the subdividing and water-piping project was not carried out until two or three years later, although I had understood at first that it was done within a year or so after the purchase of the land, and hence so wrote in 1894. But now, October 21, 1895, I learn from J. F. Holbrook of Los Angeles that in 1873 his firm of Miles & Holbrook made a lot of riveted sheet-iron piping for Dr. John S. Griffin and piped water under ground from two large elevated pump-tanks to irrigate a ten-acre orange orchard, the

same land now known as the Schieffelin Tract in East Los Angeles. Then in the spring and summer of 1874 they furnished the same sort of pipe for the work that Judge Eaton was superin- tending in the "Indiana Colony." And also at the same time they were laying the same sort of pipe for B. D. Wilson, to convey water from Mission Canyon near the old distillery to irrigate his large Lake Vineyard orange orchard; then the next year they extended this piping on down to the Alhambra Tract. I find in county records that the original Alhambra Tract was surveyed and platted by G. Hansen, in June, 1874. Mr. James M. Tiernan, business manager of The Cap- ital [a weekly newspaper at Los Angeles] assisted as chainman on this survey, and has kindly aided me in these special investigations.

ADDITIONAL ERRATA: discovered after those given on page 675 were printed.

Page 338, 2d line from bottom: 1884 should be 1894.

Page 408, 18th line from bottom: "northwestwardly" should be northeastwardly.

Page 416, 3d line from bottom: 1886 should be 1876.

Page 610, 4th line below the plate of illustrations: "stages of division" should read, stages of germination.

AT Each purchaser is requested to mark at the proper place in his own copy the corrections noted here, and also those on page 675, so that the errors shall not be quoted, nor stand to mis- lead any one. There are doubtless other misprints in the book which I have not yet detected.

The general Index, pages 11 to 16, contains 963 page references.

The Floral Index, pages 647 to 649, contains 709 page references.

The street Map, at page 16, contains 310 references by figures and letters.

The bird's-eye Map, at page 410, contains 80 references by numbers.

The plant names commencing with O were accidentally omitted from the Floral Index, at page 648, and I give them here:

Oak .. .631 ŒEnothera. 638 Opuntia .6.7 Oscillaria. .609

Oats .628

Oidium .617

Orchids 631

Osmorrhiza .. 636

Œdogonium . 612

Omphalia .620

Orthocarpus 642

Oxalis .. 635

Œnanthe .636 Ophiobolus. 613 Orthotrichum .625

Oyster-mushroom 620

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Berry, good naturedly said to him, " Berry, you will never be able to make a corner on sand and boulders in your settlement, as you and Elliott used to make on corn and wheat back East."

When our local paper noticed the fact that this same sand and boulders of which he had spoken so derisively was worth twenty-five cents per load,

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On Thanksgiving Day, 1878, my brothers Reed and Grotius and I went hunting up the canyon ; and espying an eagle, we followed it and, after a hard climb and lots of work, succeeded in killing it. His tip feathers meas- ured nearly twenty-four inches, and the total spread of wings was ten feet three inches .* We left the body where we killed it, for it was too heavy to carry home. The place was the mountain wall on eastern side of Punch- bowl canyon, a branch of Millard canyon which comes in from the north, half a mile above Millard Falls.

A PASADENA GRIZZLY BEAR.

During the winter of 1879-80, bears kept robbing our bee stands, a lot of which we had in the opening now called Elins's Canyon. One night in January or February I had a howling toothache and couldn't sleep, so I told the boys I would go over to the apiary and "kill a bear for them." They were too sleepy to go. Before I got started of course the tooth stopped aching ; but I wouldn't back out then. So I took my old Sharp's musket- 50-70, single shot, and went. About 2 o'clock in the morning, just as the moon was going out of sight, I heard a noise among the bees and started out to investigate. Creeping slowly and cautiously along and peering right and left among the hives, I finally espied a bear beyond one of the tall hives-and he wasn't a baby, either. I took aim and fired, and over he tumbled-but was up again in a second, hitting his right shoulder where the bullet had entered vigorously with his left paw ; and he gave one of the most terrific barks or grunts I ever heard : it was like the rage and fury noise of a mad hog and dog combined. Then he spied me, reared on his hind legs and came toward me. I fired again, this time hitting him in the left hip. He turned, started off, went about 125 yards and fell dead. The first shot had passed through his lungs and liver. I didn't find him till morning. Then four of us carried him up to the road, loaded him into a wagon and drove down to Pasadena. In a few moments it seemed as if the whole population of Pasadena was gathered at Williams's store to see the bear ; and the public school opposite the store was dismissed so the children could have a chance to see it. The animal measured 7 feet 10 inches from tip to tip, but only weighed about 500 pounds, for he was very poor-almost nothing but skin and bones. Some men fancy they could face a bear and be perfectly calm ; but with a big grizzly within less than thirty feet, coming

*This was not an eagle, but a California condor, the largest bird known in North America No eagle reaches that dimension. And Reed Giddings tells me that he remembers they were puzzled to tell what kind of an eagle it was, but finally concluded that it was a " bald eagle." They didn't know about the condor, and it was perfectly natural that they should think it an eagle of some sort.

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at you, you feel as if your hair all stood up as stiff as hazel brush. It was less than ten short paces from where the empty shell fell from my shoulder to where the bear stood when I gave him the second shot. This was the only genuine " grizzly " killed at Pasadena since the town commenced. I killed or helped to kill three other bears that same year.

As to Indian relics, I have found no stone axes nor arrow heads, but have found old mortars [metates] and pestles [mealing stones] - small ones, only 3x5 inches, and larger round ones 6 to 7 inches through, or mostly about 5 inches long, 1% inches thick and 3 inches wide ; also some 6 to 7 inches through, round, and about 2 inches thick. All show extreme age, and were from 2 to 15 inches below the surface. The mortars are nearly all worn through. They were found mostly on the banks of the Arroyo or Millard creek. [See page 49.]

D. M. GRAHAM.

By Mrs. Graham : We came to Pasadena in October, 1876, with our own conveyance from Anaheim, but were originally from Bloomington, Ill. We boarded at Mrs. Locke's for awhile, then rented a part of Mr. Cooley's cottage ; but built our own house in 1877. The first crop we raised was strawberries. My sister, Jennie E. Collier, was with us. Pasadena was just getting a postoffice ; and Mr. Graham had a two-horse carriage and wanted to drive out every day for his health anyway ; so he took the con- tract and became the first mail-carrier from Los Angeles to Pasadena, doing also a passenger and package business at the same time. [See "Story of the Postoffice," Chap. II.]

A. K. M'QUILLING.

Came to Pasadena with my family in July, 1875, from Mercer County, Il1. Came by railroad to Sacramento, then to San Francisco and San Pedro by steamer. The first man we met in Pasadena was A. O. Porter, who was irrigating a bed of orange seed, on Orange Grove Avenue. We first lodged in D. M. Berry's house. Our fuel was procured from wood lots in the Arroyo. I bought ten acres in the Berry & Elliott tract on Colorado street, where Pasadena Avenue and Kansas [Green] street are now. Hauled lumber from Los Angeles and built a house there. My first crop was corn. As to snow, hail, destructive wind storms, excessive rains, and drouth, we have had them all; but came through them in good shape.

HORATIO N. RUST.

My family came from Chicago to Pasadena by Southern Pacific railroad, arriving here January 23, 1882. The party consisted of myself and wife, our son, Frank N. Rust and wife ; our children, Nellie F., Edward H., and Elizabeth E. Rust, and Ernest H. Lockwood. We first met here Wm. T. Clapp, and obtained lodgings at his house and Thomas Nelmes's (the boys

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lodging in Mr. Clapp's barn), until we could prepare a shelter on my own land. I purchased the last piece of colony land on Monterey road (the same where I now reside), paying $80 per acre. We all worked, and home- making improvements went on rapidly.

[Mr. Rust was a member of the board of directors of the public library, from its beginning as a colony blossom down to the time when it was trans- ferred to the city as one of the municipal institutions. See full account in Chapter 10.]

Being commissioner of immigration for Southern California, I originated and helped carry through the first Citrus Exhibit sent from here to Chicago. This was in 1886, and gave our navel orange a prominence in Eastern markets which it never had before. Again, in September, 1887, I was gen- eral superintendent of the Southern California Horticultural Exhibit, at Armory Hall, St. Louis.

Indian Relics .- I brought with me to Pasadena a collection of prehis- toric and modern Indian relics which I had been gathering ever since my boyhood from many states and territories, besides Canada and Mexico ; and I soon began collecting specimens of the same sort in Pasadena and vicinity. I also made the first special art-collections of Indian baskets in Southern California. And my archæological collections formed a prominent feature of the first Art-Loan Exhibition, held for the benefit of the public library in 1884. In 1890-91-92 I was United States Indian Agent, under President Harrison's administration. In 1892 my archæological collection was purchased by Frank G. Logan of Chicago, and I exhibited it for him at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, being myself a member and secre- tary of the board of judges for the Ethnological Department there. Mr. Logan finally donated the entire collection to Beloit College, Wisconsin, where it is now carefully preserved.

JOSEPH WALLACE.

Arrived in Pasadena in June, 1875, coming by rail and stage from Titsanburg, Ontario, Canada. The first resident we met here was Mrs. Dr. Elliott, and we boarded with their family at first.

[This is all that Mr. Wallace gave of his "old settler" experience. But his good work for the colony will be found in the historic sketch of his pioneer cannery enterprise, Chapter 24 .- ED.]

P. G. WOOSTER.

Late in April, 1875, I came down the coast from San Francisco to Santa Monica. Some thought that place was to be the great city and shipping port for the Los Angeles and San Gabriel valleys. From Santa Monica to Los Angeles I came by the 'old Independence Railroad. Stopped at the United States hotel for a while, but soon took a room at Dr. McKee's cottage, corner Third and Fort street (now Broadway). I must have looked

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and acted very sick ; for as I walked about the streets of the city I over- heard such remarks as these : "There's another poor consumptive. He's come out here to die. He's too far gone. This climate won't do him any good. He'd better have staid at home with his friends," etc., etc. One said, " He ought to drink buttermilk ; that will cure him. When I came here I had the consumption ; and I drank buttermilk and it cured me." I looked at the fellow, and thought him a pretty poor specimen to be sent back East as an advertisement of this country-for his cheeks were sunken like the hollows on a New England coast map, and his eyes looked like buttons in a washtub. Seeing things thus, I decided not to diet on butter- milk.

In May I got acquainted with surveyor E. T. Wright of Los Angeles. He invited me one day to ride with him out to the " Indiana Colony." We went by the Arroyo road. On what is now called Highland Park, and near the Arroyo where the Potts residence now stands, there was a low old adobe building - a relic of the old Spanish or Mexican days ; and Wright told me, with solemn tone and countenance, that the man living in that house had killed six men, and was waiting for the seventh to come along. I felt very uncomfortable till we got well past the place. (We returned to the city by the east or adobe road, and I was very glad of it.) We reached the colony settlement at what was called " Porter's Hill," where A. O. Porter and P. M. Green had pretty cottages - the prettiest in the place, I thought, because the others were mostly unpainted. At this time there were no houses on the Lake Vineyard Tract-that is, none east of Fair Oaks Avenue.

In June I bought ro acres on the Lake Vineyard side at $55 per acre, less 12 per cent. for cash down-the land where Hotel Green, and the Santa Fe depot, and the Post Office building, and the Wooster block all now stand. I came to pitch my tent here July 8, 1875. My lumber, my stove and other kitchen utensils, my provisions and myself were hauled out from Los Angeles by a Mr. Higgins with his 6-horse team that day. I lodged awhile at Dr. Elliott's, nearly where the Arroyo Vista house (Mrs. Bangs's) now stands; then a week or two at Rev. W. C. Mosher's home ; then moved into my own less than half-completed shanty. While at Mosher's, and also in my own shanty alone, I suffered terribly and nearly died with rheumatism. I lived in my shanty several months before I got a roof on it, for I was too sick to work, and had but little means. But I needed a horse ; and I bought from a man who had just came from Arizona, an Indian pony, a fine saddle, bridle and tether, all for $40. The boys called my pony " Rosinante," after Don Quixote's famous steed. I rigged up for my pony a two-wheeled cart, the thills of which were fastened to the saddle; and when I hauled wood, or water, or anything, I rode in the saddle myself instead of the cart. The pony was Injin bred and I was Yankee bred, and

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we compromised on this new trick style of express wagon. I wore cowhide shoes, usually run down at the heel ; a checked cotton shirt ; and blue jeans pants that were rather short, so that my ankles and cotton socks were exposed. These were badges of bachhood and wifeless independence. One day I begged a dog from a shepherd going by with his flock, named him " Watch," and he stuck to me closer than a brother.

My shanty was one of the very first put up on the Lake Vineyard side. At the same time old Mr. Hollingsworth built his house; and Mr. Lowe built the Roger Plant house on Marengo Avenue ; Mr. Vore built a board cottage ; and Mrs. R. H. Martin built a board cottage of two or three rooms on the E. C. Webster place. One moonlight night in the month of July, 1875, I slept in the Martin cottage, with only a grass hammock and a thick traveling shawl for bedding, and I nearly froze to death before morning. How the coyotes did howl that night! and other nights, too, when I slept in my own shanty there where the big pepper tree is, in front of Hotel Green. By the way, my wife planted that pepper tree there in 1880.

I came to Southern California for my health. In the East I was much afflicted with catarrh, and my bronchial tubes were badly clogged. Life was a burden ; I had no ambition and was not able to work. After coming here I had a severe siege with rheumatism, then began to improve rapidly and soon was able to labor hard every day. And have enjoyed pretty good healthı ever since.

WHERE THE OLD SETTLERS CAME FROM.

A few months ago a San Francisco paper spoke of Pasadena as a place 'originally settled by a lot of Puritans from New England"-a statement, widely incorrect, as my following syllabus will show. When an Old Settlers' Association was talked of, twelve or thirteen years ago, it was commonly agreed that persons who came here prior to and during the year 1880, should be reckoned as " Old Settlers," anyway, whether later arrivals were counted in or not ; and upon that basis I have compiled the following list of names, years and places, both for its own historic interest, and as a guide list for a Pasadena Pioneer Society which may possibly spring up some day yet. For convenience of reference I give the names in alphabeti- cal order rather than the order of successive years, and have marked with a star those who were members of the original Orange Grove Colony Association :

PASADENA OLD SETTLERS-1870 TO 1880.

Allen, Lyman, M. D 1880 ... Missouri, formerly Ohio. Allen, Wm. 1879 ... England.

Baker, Edwin 1874 ... Pennsylvania.

*Baker, John H.

1873 ... Indiana.

Ball, Benjamin F 1878 ... Iowa, formerly Ohio.

*Banbury, Jabez.

1874 ... Iowa.

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Banbury, John W. 1876 ... Canada.

Banbury, Thomas

1874 ... Canada.

Bangs, Mrs. Emma C. 1880 ... New York State.

*Barcus, Wm. J 1874 ... Indiana.

Beebe, Jerome. 1876 ... Chicago.

Bell, Charles W

1877 ... New York State.

*Bennett, Henry G Bennett, Will J.

1874 ... Michigan.

*Berry, D. M.

1873 ... Indiana.

Bishop, Miss Cynthia M

1876 ... Vermont.

Brigden, Albert.

1877 ... Chicago.

*Bristol, A. O

1873 ... Iowa.

Brown, C. C.

1879 ... Michigan.

Bryant, S. D.

1876 ... Iowa.

Cambell, James.

1877 ... New York State.

Carr, Ezra S., M. D., etc.

1880 ... New York State.

Case, Cyrus C

1878 ... Michigan, formerly Maine.

Case, Chas. H.

1880 ... Maine.

Chapman, Fred E

1880 ... Illinois.

*Clapp, Wm. T.

1873 ... Massachusetts.

Clapp, Wm. B

1874 ... Massachusetts.

Clapp, I. B

1876 ... Connecticut.

Clapp, Ed. C.

1880 ... Connecticut.

Clark, Geo. P 1874 ... Connecticut, formerly Rhode Island.

Cobb, Mrs. Rebecca A. 1876 ... Iowa.

Conger, O. H., M. D

1874 ... New York State.

Cooley, Walter E. 1874 ... Massachussetts.

Craig, James 1869 ... England.

Crank, James F.

1877 ... New York State.

*Croft, Thomas F

1873 ... Indiana.

*Dana, Alfred W

1874 ... Massachussetts.

Dougherty, O. R

1877 ... Indiana.

Dunsmoor, A. V

1878 ... Minnesota.

Dunton, Rev. S

1876 ... Iowa.

Dyer, R. B.

1876 ... Connecticut.

*Eaton, Benj. S. 1858 ... Missouri. Edwards, Alex 1874 ... Indiana.

*Elliott, T. B., M. D .1875 ... Indiana.

Farnsworth, Rev. R. W. C ,1880 ... Vermont.

*Fletcher, Calvin 1874 ... Indiana.

Foote, Chas. R. 1879 ... Massachusetts.

Foote, Misses Mary H. and Catherine L

1879 ... Massachusetts.

Freeman, Wm 1880 ... Wisconsin.

Gano, Peter.

1880 ... Ohio.

*Gibson, N. R. 1874 ... Indiana.

Giddings, Levi W. 1874 ... Iowa.

Giddings, Grotius L

1874 .... Iowa.

Giddings, Eugene W

1874 ... Iowa.

1875 ... Michigan.

Blatenburg, James

1877 ... Iowa.

Bryant, H. L

1876 ... Iowa.

Case, H. R.

1880 ... Massachussets.

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Giddings, J. Reed. 1874 ... Iowa.

Gilchrist, James D

1879 ... Chicago.

Gilmore, Mrs. Lucy 1876 ... Massachusetts.

*Green, Peryr M.

1874 ... Indiana.

Greene, Frank W. 1874 ... Massachusetts.

Goodwin, H. F

1880 ... Wisconsin.

Hannaford, Wm. S

1880 ... England.

Harry, Wm 1874 ... Indiana.

Hartwell, John L

1879 ... Iowa.

Heald, F. H.

1878 ... Iowa.

Heydenreich, F. H. 1877 ... New York City.

Hollingsworth, L. D. 1876 ... Iowa.

*Holmes, H. J. 1874-1882 ... San Francisco, formerly Michigan.

Hovey, F. M. Hurlbut, Edwin F

1875 ... Chicago.

*Hutton, A. W. 1874 ... Alabama.

Jewett, S. P. 1878 ... Ohio.

Kinney, Abbott

1880 ... Maryland.

1879 ... Indiana.

*Lippincott, T. E

Locke, Mrs. R. C.

1874 ... Philadelphia.

*Lockhart, T. J. and L. J

1874 ... Indiana.

Lord, I. S. P., M. D.

1879 ... Chicago.

Lowe, John.

1876 ... Salt Lake City.

Lukens, T. P. 1880 ... Illinois.

Markham, H. H

1879 ... Wisconsin.

*Matthews, J. M.

McQuilling, A. K

1874 ... Ohio.

Meharry, Geo. E.

1880 ... Indiana.

Michener, L. H.

1877 ... Iowa.

Millard, Elisha 1875 ... Indiana.

Mills, A. F .1878 ... Canada.

Mills, John S 1877 ... Canada.

Martin, Mrs. R. H 1876 ... Massachusetts.,

Martin, C. S. 1876 .. Massachusetts.

Martin, Wm. D

1876 ... Massachusetts.

Maudlin, Solomon

1878 ... Iowa.

McLean, Edward

1880 ... Oakland, Cal., formerly Connecticut.

Mosher, Rev. W. C.

1874 ... New York State.

*Mundell, I. N

. 1874 ... Ohio.

Nelson, Joseph A

1876 ... New Orleans.

Ninde, Albert 1877 .. Salt Lake City.

Painter, John H

1880 ... Iowa.

*Porter, A. O. .1875 ... Indiana.

Printz, Dennis 1876 ... Iowa.

Raab, David. 1870 ... Illinois.

Rice, B. A 1880 ... Kansas.

Richardson, Geo. A 1875 ... Massachusetts.

Ridgway, Harry 1878 ... Canada.

Riegle, Henry H 1879 ... New York State.

Ripley, C. B. 1876 ... Maine.

1880 ... Vermont.

*Leavitt, Ward

Legge, Charles

1876 ... Iowa.

1874 ... Indiana.

1875. . . Illinois.

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Rosenbaum, M

1874 ... Iowa, formerly Germany.

Ross, John 1880 ... Canada.

Ross, Jas. W

1880 ... Canada.

Shaw, Samuel J.

1879 ... Iowa.

Skillen, C. M.

1880 ... Ohio.

Smith, James ..

1878 ... Glasgow, Scotland.

*Strickland, Ney

1874 ... Georgia.

Swan, Wm. O.

.1877 ... Boston, Mass.

Swan, W. O., Jr

1877 ... Boston, Mass.

Swan, Chas. W.

1877 ... Boston, Mass.

Townsend, David 1876 ... Iowa.

Townsend, Stephen 1876 ... Iowa.

Townsend, David, Jr

1876 ... Iowa.

Townsend, Will H. 1876 ... Iowa.

Turner, Edson.

1875 ... Illinois.

*Vawter, Mrs. C. A

1874 ... Indiana.

*Vawter, E. J Wallace, Joseph

1874 ... Indiana.

1875 ... Canada.

Washburn, S .. 1874 ... Iowa.

Watson, Wm. G

1876 ... England.

Watts, Chas. H

1874 .. Chicago.

Weight, M. H 1876 ... Salt Lake City.

Weingarth, Mrs. Sarah A

1879 ... Indiana.

Williams, Romayne. 1877 ... New York State.

Wilson, John W. 1871 ... Mississippi.

Wilson, Joseph M 1871 ... Mississippi.

Wilson, John B.

1871 ... Mississippi.

Wooster, P. G 1875 ... Boston, formerly Maine.

*Yarnell, Jesse.

1874 ... Ohio.

The first Directory of Pasadena ever published gave names and former home of all permanent residents of the place, up to May 1, 1883 ; and the following summary shows from what diverse portions of our own and other countries these people had gathered to form an ideal and polyethnic settle- ment (Chinamen not counted) at this "crown of the valley ":

From Iowa 62, Illinois 29, Massachusetts 26, Indiana I8, N. Y. State 17, Missouri 11, Canada 11, Ohio 9, England 9, California 8, Connecticut 7, Minnesota 6, Wisconsin 6, Maine 5, Michigan 5, Pennsylvania 5, Vermont 5, Colorado 3, Kansas 3, Mississippi 3, Utah 3, Germany 3, Scotland 3, Nebraska 2, Arkansas 1, Delaware 1, Louisiana 1, Maryland I, Montana I, Rhode Island 1, Texas I, Washington Territory I, Manitoba I, New Bruns- wick 1, Sweden I. These represent about 200 families, not counting bach- elors.

The twenty-seven members of the original colony association stood thus : From Alabama I [ Judge A. W. Hutton now of Los Angeles], from Georgia 1, Indiana 14, Iowa 2, Massachusetts 2, Michigan 2, Missouri I, Ohio 3, Pennsylvani 1-total, 27.

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CHAPTER VII.

FUN IN THE COLONY .- A witty newspaper, The Reservoir .- Some Dog-gerel poetry .- Grasshopper Talk .- The Preacher, and Wilson's wine .- Stage talent in the col- ony .- Baker's Bear .- The "Nine Nobby Niggers."-Who killed Jesse Lee ?- Col. Banbury's Deer .- The " rifle team " saw a bear .- Rabbit Hunts.

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Author: Reid, Hiram Alvin, 1834-; McClatchie, Alfred James, comp Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Pasadena, Cal., Pasadena History Co. Number of Pages: 714

Author: Reid, Hiram Alvin, 1834-; McClatchie, Alfred James, comp
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Pasadena, Cal., Pasadena History Co.
Number of Pages: 714