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DR. KATE SHEPARDSON BLACK : Topical papers ; public addresses ; current literature.
NORMAN W. CAMP, D. D. : Author of "Ritual Hand-Book of Praise and Prayer." Washington, D. C., 1884.
EZRA S. CARR, M.D., LL. D .: Agricultural economics ; geology ; public lectures. Educational science ; large volume history of the Grange movement. Author of works on "Child Culture," "Genesis of Crime," " Claims and Conditions of Industrial Education," etc. [Died 1894].
MRS. JEANNE C. CARR : Letters ; reminiscences; botany ; horticul- ture ; historical writings ; varied contributions to published volumes and to periodical literature.
WM. F. CHANNING, M. D .: Author of "Manual of Magnetism," 1847; "Medical Application of Electricity," 1849; original patentee of Fire Alarm Telegraph; also of Inter-Oceanic Ship Railway ; assistant geologist in U. S. survey of Lake Superior mineral lands ; member of ad- visory council World's Congress of Electricians ; contributor to leading magazines and scientific journals.
MRS. LOU V. CHAPIN : Author of History for Children ; long time editress of the Chicago Graphic ; magazine writer ; etc.
MRS. JULIA CLARKE CHASE : Author of "Driftwood," a volume of poems published at Milwaukee, Wis., 1878. Was a frequent contributor to leading journals and magazines. She and her sister, Medora Clarke, were at one time famed in the middle west as " the poet sisters." She is pre- paring another volume of her poems for publication in 1896-and this will be a Pasadena production.
JAMES G. CLARKE : Author of many popular poems and songs ; music composer ; magazine writer ; editor.
MRS. C. D. DAGGETT : Short stories ; sketches ; dramatic pieces ; etc.
JUDGE B. S. EATON : Magazine literature ; reminiscences ; local pioneer history. [Judge Eaton wrote many narratives of local history for this volume].
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REV. ELI FAY, D. D. : Contributor to the North American Review, and others of the most scholarly eastern periodicals. Author of " Reason in Religion "-1895.
CHAS. A. GARDNER : Humorous poetry ; magazine literature ; editor.
MRS. MARGARET COLLIER GRAHAM ; Stories and periodical literature. " Stories of the Foothills," a volume published by Houghton, Miflin & Co., N. Y., 1894. Stories mostly located in Southern California. A writer for the Overland Monthly, Scribner's Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, etc.
MRS. ELIZABETH GRINNELL : Poems ; periodical literature ; author of "How John and I Brought up the Child;" -- a $400 prize story published by the American Sunday School Union in 1894.
CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER, LL. D .: author of numerous vol- umes in science, and a prolific contributor to literary and scientific journals, and the newspaper press. Author of "The Ivory King." "Marvels of Animal Life," and "Living Lights," all published by Scribner's Sons, New York and London. "Along the Florida Reef," D. Appleton & Co., New York. "Elements of Zoology:" American Book Co., New York. "A Strange Company :" D. Lathrop & Co., Bostou. "Pasadena and Vicinity:" Lee & Shepard, Boston. " Life of Darwin," "Life of Agassiz," Putnam's Sons, New York. "A Frozen Dragon."
CASPAR T. HOPKINS, A. M .: author of "Manual of American Ideas," -San Francisco, 1872-a text book on civil government which went through eight editions; and he was negotiating with a Boston publishing house for its re-issue when his death occurred, in 1893. He was for many years a contributor to the Overland Monthly, and other Pacific Coast period- icals, chiefly on economic questions.
G. WHARTON JAMES, F. R. A. S., etc .: Author of "Tourists' Guide Book to South California," 1895 : and other works. Also, lectures on Astronomy, and other topics ; and the extensive and profusely illustrated Mount Lowe literature. Editor of the Mount Lowe Echo.
PRESIDENT C. H. KEYES, of Throop Polytechnic Institute : Educa- tional Science ; public lectures and addresses ; contributor to educational journals.
ABBOT KINNEY : Author of "Protection vs. Free Trade "- 1884. Forestry reports ; travels ; essays ; public addresses ; magazine articles.
REV. SOLON LAUER : Author of "Life and Light from Above :" Lee & Shepard, Boston- 1895. And other works.
ELIAS LONGLEY : Author of " American Manual of Phonography," and nine other works or text books on Phonography, Typewriting, etc. He was the pioneer of phonography and phonotopy in America, commencing his publications in this field of art at Cincinnati, O., in 1849.
MRS. M. V. LONGLEY : Author of standard text books on Type- writing ; public lectures on Woman Suffrage ; etc.
MRS. MARY CASE LORD: Author of published work on "Bible Wines," and other writings ; editor "Southern California White Ribbon."
W. U. MASTERS : contributor to periodicals ; topical addresses ; public lectures.
PROF. A. J. MCCLATCHIE, A. M .: Author of "A Guide in the Study of Plants "-1893 ; contributor to scientific periodicals on Botany, Biology, and kindred topics. [See chapter on Botany in this volume.]
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CHESTER GORE MILLER : Author of a book entitled "Father Junipero Serra," a dramatic poem ; and other poems. 1894.
MISS ANNA PICHER : Author of Pasadena Art Loan Souvenir pamph- lets, in successive years from 1889 to 1895.
PROF. FRANK J. POLLEY : Antiquarian researches ; early history of California ; topical papers, reports, public lectures, etc.
H. A. REID, A. M., M. D .: Author of "The Heart Lace," Daven- port, Iowa, 1856-the first volume of poems ever printed in Iowa ; also Harp of the West," same place, 1858. Author of History of the State of Missouri, 1881 ; and History of Lafayette County and City of Lexing- ton, Mo. Author of History of Johnson County and Iowa City, the first state capital, and the State University town of Iowa-1883. History of Montgomery County and city of Red Oak, Iowa, 1880. Author of "Cal- endars of Creation," showing the steps and stages of creational progress on four different lines of evolution-1879. Contributions to "Review of Science," Kansas City, Mo. Topical papers, public lectures, etc., on Evo- lution and kindred topics.
MRS. RACHEL F. REID, M.D. : Stories ; poetry ; lectures to women ; topical papers and addresses .*
MAJ. HORATIO N. RUST : Magazine articles ; antiquarian research ; Indian Life.
Gov. LIONEL A. SHELDON : Magazine contributor ; civil economics ; political questions ; etc.
ELIAS SMITH, M. D .: Author of "Atlas of Surgical Operations,'' Peoria I11 .- 1889. "Regional Anatomy for Beginners"; same date. Various anatomical and surgical charts for physicians. Invented and pub- lished in 1889 a school mannikin that dissects into over thirty different pieces, showing internal parts of the human body in their proportionate size and proper place. In 1860 he made some new discoveries in the polar phenomena of electro-magnets, and invented electric batteries for use of physicians.
MRS. GRACE ELLERY CHANNING STETSON: Stories ; poems ; travels ; magazine literature.
MRS. LAURA G. STUNTZ: Some of her poems are printed in a volume entitled "Poets of America," published in Chicago in 1891. Also in a volume entitled "Woman in Sacred Song," edited by a Mrs. Smith of Springfield, Il1.
MRS. HANNAH E. TAYLOR: Poems ; dramatic pieces ; music.
TIMOTHY B. TAYLOR, A. M., M. D: Author of "The Inebriate"- Montpelier, Vt., 1865. "Old Theology Turned Upside Down or Right Side Up, by a Methodist Minister,"- Fort Scott, Kansas, 1871 ; but pub- lished now by the "Banner of Light Co.," Boston. "Text Book on Psychology"-to be published in 1895-96. This latter is a Pasadena pro- duction. Author of sundry pamphlets and other writings on religious and science topics.
JUDGE A. J. UTLEY: Author of "Free Coinage," -- 1893; and other works on Economic questions.
*Mrs. Reid was one among the first twelve women ever graduated from medical colleges in the United States ; and as an Army Nurse she was the first woman mustered into the service west of Wash- ington, this being at St. Louis in September, 1861, when Gen. Fremont was in command there.
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ISAAC N. VAIL : Author of "The Earth's Aqueous Ring "; West- town College, Pa .- 1874. "The Origin of Coal,"-1884. "The Earth's Annular System "-Cleveland, Ohio, 1885. "The Great Red Dragon,"- 1893. Editor " Vail's Annular World "; magazine, Los Angeles, 1895.
MRS. ELIZABETH A. VORE : Stories; poems ; treatises ; periodical literature.
JOHN W. WOOD, Ph. G. : Author of prize report on Pharmacy ; poetry ; periodical literature.
PASADENA ARCHITECTURE.
Pasadena is justly famed for the tasteful elegance, the high-art styles and the picturesque diversity of types of its architecture, alike in public buildings, in business blocks and in private residences. There is no archi- tectural rut of sameness or monotony to be found here. And this historic fact and feature is largely due to Harry Ridgway, the first man who ever opened an architect office and established the business as a regular profession in Pasadena, which he did in 1878, and holds the field yet- 1895. His
Delos Arnold
B. F. Ball.
Allen Dodsworth.
Mrs. Louise T. Conger.
FOUR SIGHTLY HOMES.
idea was never to make two buildings exactly alike, but to utilize all the styles known to architectural science, ancient, mediæval and modern, in new combinations of artistic beauty and perspicuous variety. He never wanted any man to be able to point out any structure and say, " that's one of Ridgway's designs-it shows the earmarks of his style." He rather sought and achieved that ideal freedom from "style " called the artlessness of art. And others coming later brought additional novelties. Hence there are many original and diverse combinations of Venetians, Normans, Eastlakes, Old Spanish, Old Plantation, Italian, French Mansards, English and Colo- nial Dormers, Old English Queen Annes, Old English Elizabethans, multi-
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gables of many styles ; villa combinations, haciendas, bays and towers in great variety. In fact most of our local architects have seemed to catch the spirit of the field as stamped by Mr. Ridgway, and tried to produce something distinctly and worthily Pasadenian in architecture, in which a few have succeeded. [A list of 100 buildings showing architectural types I was obliged to omit for want of space].
CHAPTER XI.
PASADENA IN POLITICS .- Political Clubs and Party Representatives. - National and City Election Tables .- Pasadena Men in High Office .- Story of the Postoffice for twenty years.
PASADENA IN POLITICS.
There were twenty-seven members of the original San Gabriel Orange Grove Association who selected and took possession of their several propor- tions of the colony lands on Jan. 27, 1874. Of these twenty-seven founders of Pasadena five were democrats, namely, Judge B. S. Eaton the president, A. O. Bristol, A. W. Hutton, Ney Strickland and Henry G. Bennett ; all the rest were republicans. But these five were not necessarily lonesome, for nearly all the old settlers around were democrats, such as Gen. Stoneman, Col. Kewen, Hon. B. D. Wilson, J. DeBarth Shorb, Col. Winston, John W. Wilson, Jesus Rubio, etc. For all political or voting purposes the Rancho San Pasqual was only a part of San Gabriel township .* Our colonists, however; took measures at once to be formed into a new school district ; and the first election ever held in Pasadena was for school directors, on Saturday, September 12, 1874. Ten votes were cast, and unanimous choice was made of Col. J. Banbury, H. G. Bennett and Dr. W. W. Edwards. No voting except school elections occured here until 1876, when the San Pasqual school district was allowed to vote as a separate election precinct of San Gabriel township. And at the presidential election that year the polling place was at the original colony school-house on lower Orange Grove Avenue, only a few days before its removal to the central school lot, this latter event taking place November 10, 1876. This was the year of Hayes's election as presi- dent ; and out of a dozen old settlers whom I consulted only J. H. Baker remembered how the vote stood. He gives it as Republican, 60 ; Demo- crat, 5 ; Greenbacker, 2. Total, 67.
Early in 1875 I. N. Mundell was appointed road overseer for the school district ; and in 1876 he was succeeded by A. O. Bristol.
In March, 1877, Henry G. Bennett was appointed deputy county as-
* On Aug. 7. 1851, San Gabriel township was created by order of the Court of Sessions, and was to include besides the Mission, " the Ranchos San Pasqual, Santa Anita, Andres Duarte, Azusa, La Puente, Las Coyotes, Nietos with all its lines of boundary, Cienega, Mission Vieja with all its lines of boundary. The residence of the authorities is in San Gabriel."-Old records, as cited by Bancroft.
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sessor, and served continuously for nine years. At the fall election this year Maj. Erie Locke was elected justice of the peace for San Gabriel town- ship ; and A. O. Bristol was elected constable, but declined to serve.
In 1878 Dr. T. B. Elliott and P. M. Green were delegates from Pasa- dena to the republican congressional district convention ; and Mr. Green here made his maiden effort in politics by offering a resolution in favor of civil service reform, which was adopted by the convention.
In 1879 P. G. Wooster was appointed deputy sheriff for Pasadena, under county sheriff H. M. Mitchell, and was thus the first constabulary officer of the new settlement. He was re-appointed deputy by sheriff W. R. Rowland in 1880.
In 1879 (special election) P. M. Green was nominated and elected as- semblyman ; and this was Pasadena's first elective achievement in the politi- cal field. The voting this year was at the Central School-house. Mr. Green received 109 votes, and the democratic candidate received six.
In 1882 J. F. Crank, another Pasadena republican, was elected to the assembly ; and Gen. Geo. Stoneman, democrat, was elected governor. But I still found no record or report of any political club here. The Pasadena vote in 1882 was, republican 136; democrat 30. The vote of San Gabriel was, 73 republican and 119 democrat.
On March 29, 1884, a republican club was organized, with Col. J. Ban- bury as president, and Ben E. Ward secretary; and Banbury, Ward, and H. W. Magee were appointed delegates to a convention at Los Angeles for choosing delegates to the State convention, and to decide on who Los An- geles county would support for nomination as the republican candidate for congress in the Sixth District. On this latter question four ballots were had at Los Angeles, the last of which stood : for H. H. Markham, 78 ; for Judge W. A. Cheney, 40 ; for E. F. Spence, 16. Then it was made unani- mous for Markham ; and Spence, Cheney, Magee, and others were ap- pointed a committee to inform him of the result. Magee was appointed one of the delegates to the State convention at Sacramento ; and there on July 23, 1884, Markham was nominated by the sixth district caucus, and ratified by the convention.
September 19 the Pasadena republican club or caucus appointed dele- gates to the county nominating convention, as follows : H. W. Magee, J. Banbury,. J. W. Wood, O. R. Dougherty, T. P. Lukens. The convention was in session two days, September 24 and 25. J. W. Wood was one of its secretaries. Magee was nominated for assemblyman. He went on making the canvass ; but the last week in October he discovered that it required a three years' residence in the State to be eligible for this office, and he had only come here in 1883-hence was ineligible. He at once resigned the candidacy, and Col. J. Banbury was put on the ticket in his place, and was elected.
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This is the first year that I found any published election returns from Pasadena, and its vote on November 4, 1884, was :
FOR PRESIDENT. FOR CONGRESS. FOR LEGISLATURE.
Blaine, rep. 270 Markham, rep. 298 Col. J. Banbury, rep., 275
Cleveland, dem 59 Del Valle, dem. 49 Abbot Kinney, dem. 56
St. John, prohib. 32
Butler, labor party 4
Thus Pasadena precinct cast 365 votes for presidential candidates in 1884. But the vote for precinct officers ran up to 381 on justice of the peace, as follows :
For Justice-T. P. Lukens, rep., 239 ; T. K. Bufkin, prohib., 81 ; E. S. Hereford, dem. 61 For Constable-H. C. Price, rep., 224 ; Geo. H. Little, prohib., 110.
April 14, 1884, the first Prohibition club was organized, as a result of lectures by the famous Mrs. J. Ellen Foster of Iowa. The officers were- Stephen Townsend, president ; Dr. Lyman Allen, secretary ; S. D. Bryant, treasurer. And the votes for St. John, Bufkin and Little, as given above, showed their voting strength that year.
The first mention of any democratic political move in Pasadena is a re- port of a meeting called by L. C. Winston at the Roller Skating Rink, October 29, 1884, and presided over by John W. Wilson. It was a mixed affair, in which some republicans from San Gabriel took part, in opposition to O. A. Stevens, a republican candidate for justice of the peace ; but the real object of the meeting seemed to be in interest of the democratic candi- date, E. S. Hereford, step-son of Hon. B. D. Wilson, who received 61 votes in Pasadena precinct, as above noted.
In June, 1885, T. P. Lukens resigned as justice of the peace, and Charles A. Gardner was appointed by the county board of supervisors to fill the vacancy. Hence Gardner was the incumbent when in 1886 the city was incorporated, and he was then appointed Pasadena's first city recorder or police judge.
The next electional event was the first vote for city trustees, which took place June 7, 1886, the incorporation having been officially granted on May 13. For particulars of this election, see Chapter 14; also Chapter 12.
This year affords the first formal notice that I found of a democratic party meeting in Pasadena, and I quote it from the Union of June 18, 1886, to show who were the leading democrats here at that time. The notice read :
" A meeting will be held at 8 P. M. Saturday, June 26, in the school- house, Pasadena. All who are in sympathy with the great principles held by the Democracy are invited to be present. Abbot Kinney, E. C. Webster, Bayard T. Smith, H. G. Bennett, R. M. Furlong, L. C. Winston, A. O. Bristol."
April 16, 1888, the city trustees canvassed the votes polled at the elec- tion held on April 9, and found the following officers elected :
*The votes for Butler and St. John were never published in Pasadena, and I had to hunt up old records in Los Angeles to find them. St. John had 343 votes in the county.
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NAME.
DREW LOT FOR.
M. M. Parker, city trustee, 2 years.
Edson Turner, city trustee, 4 years.
Stephen Townsend, city trustee, 4 years.
W. W. Webster,
city trustee, 2 years.
A. G. Throop, city trustee, 2 years.
City Clerk, James H. Cambell.
City Treasurer, Jabez Banbury.
City Marshal, I. N. Mundell.
PASADENA'S PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IN 1888.
For President :
FIRST WARD
SECOND WARD
THIRD WARD
FOURTH WARD
TOTALS
Harrison, Republican
350
215
215
288
1,068
Cleveland, Democrat
73
89
87
100
349
Fisk, Prohibition
63
18
18
33
I32
486
322
320
42I
1,549
For County Treasurer :
Col. Banbury, Republican.
359
233
226
308
1,126
Hewitt, Democrat.
64
77
80
98
319
[The most remarkable local contest was on Col. Banbury's candidacy at this time, and hence I preserve the vote, for its historic interest.]
The city election in April, 1890, had the maintenance of the city's anti- saloon ordinance distinctly in issue ; and for particulars of that campaign and the vote in the case, see Chapter 13.
In the county election A. J. McLachlan won the race for district attor- ney ; and Col. Banbury was re-elected county treasurer.
At City election April 11, 1892, the vote stood :
For City Trustee-John S. Cox, Republican. Oscar F. Weed, Republican
509
Samuel H. Doolittle, Independent
9
For five others, one vote each.
For City Clerk-Heman Dyer, Republican. 532
Scattering
5
For City Marshal -John T. Buchanan, Republican 506
Scattering
9
For City Treasurer-W. U. Masters, Democrat. 320
W. T. Vore, Republican. 291
VOTE ON LIBRARY TRUSTEES.
Chas. M. Parker, 525 ; O. S. Picher, 522 ; Sherman Washburn, 523; B. M. Wotkyns, 515 ; John W. Vandevort, 521.
This year C. M. Simpson, republican, of Pasadena was nominated and elected to the legislature; and J. DeBarth Shorb, democrat, was elected county treasurer.
I found published reports this year of two political meetings, republican on October 4, and democratic October 5, with lists of the men who were
485
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deemed sufficiently prominent and representative members of the two parties to be called to sit on the platform as vice-presidents ; and I give these lists here as historic memoranda of accredited party leaders at that time.
REPUBLICAN- OCTOBER 4, 1892.
The meeting was called to order by J. A. Buchanan, president of the Pasadena Harrison club ; and after music by the band, the following list of vice-presidents was read by the secretary of the club, Theo. Coleman :
Arturo Bandini, J. W. Scoville, J. W. Hugus, John McDonald, Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, B. M. Wotkyns, W. B. Rowland, Calvin Hartwell, Col. O. S. Picher, Mayor O. F. Weed, T. P. Lukens, M. H. Weight, Capt. A. Wake- ley, Col. Chase, Capt. Geo. T. Downing, B. F. Ball, P. M. Green, Judge H. W. Magee, W. E. Arthur, M. D. Painter, Governor L. A. Sheldon, C. C. Brown, A. H. Conger, J. S. Cox, Thomas Banbury, Frank C. Bolt, S. Wash- burn, W. L. McAllister, J. W. Wood, H. J. Vail, M. L. Clark, H. H. Rose, W. H. Wiley, Wesley Bunnell, J. R. Greer, Jr., Rev. L. P. Crawford, James H. Cambell, Ben W. Hahn, C. A. Gardner, Col. J. M. Irvin, Geo. D. Patten, R. H. Williams, R. H. Knight, Fred Swift, Heman Dyer, N. S. Bangham, John T. Buchanan, W. S. Wright, W. R. Staats, W. S. Gilmore.
DEMOCRATIC- OCTOBER 5, 1892.
The meeting was called to order by W. U. Masters, president of the Democratic club, upon whose request W. D. McGilvray, secretary, read the following list of vice-presidents [Pasadena names only given] :
R. M. Furlong, W. C. Stuart, A. R. Metcalfe, Judge Enoch Knight, W. D. McGilvray, L. C. Winston, A. O. Bristol, Jas. Clarke, Dr. H. S. Slaughter, Dr. R. J. Mohr, J. B. Stoutenburgh, W. L. Wotkyns, A. J. Wright, Hon. J. DeBarth Shorb of San Gabriel, Hon. Geo. S. Patton of San Gabriel, Bayard T. Smith, George Hermann, C. F. Harris, Joseph Simons, Lucien E. Walker, H. C. Allen, Saml. Palmateer, Jas. Blatenburg, C. H. Ryan, A. Thorns, John Simons, Judge B. S. Eaton of South Pasadena, A. W. Armstrong, Ed. Kennedy, Peter Steil, Prof. C. H. Keyes, Dr. H. Sherk, L. C. Torrance, H. G. Bennett, W. T. Grimes, H. B. Belt, F. B. Colver, W. B. Scarborough, R. C. Guirado, A. R. Stoed, J. R. Matthews, J. C. Kays, M. P. Snyder, W. T. Martin, J. R. Pitts.
The presidential vote of Pasadena this year, 1892, stood :
HARRISON Rep.
CLEVELAND Dem.
WEAVER Popul't
BIDWELL Prohib.
Precinct No. I
98
20
IO
38
Precinct No. 2
145
36
30
53
Precinct No. 3
103
45
32
14
Precinct No. 4
84
31
I4
I2
Precinct No. 5
106
45
31
I3
Precinct No. 6
I 50
46
18
28
Totals in city
686
223
134
158
North Pasadena
I16
32
25
32
South Pasadena
64
37
14
I8
Alhambra
124
68
16
7
San Gabriel
66
83
4
2
Lamanda.
66
27
22
9
Sierra Madre.
67
29
8
4
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[I have given the vote of these six adjacent precincts also, because they are settlements historically within Pasadenaland, and the figures were ready at hand.]
At the city election on April 9, 1894, the vote stood as follows .
For City Trustee-John B. Cahill, prohibitionist. II3
James Clarke, democrat. 379
H. M. Hamilton, republican 693*
T. P. Lukens, republican 762*
Peter Steil, democrat. 191
Andrew J. Utley, populist. I53
Sherman Washburn, republican 856*
For City Clerk -Heman Dyer, republican. 1054*
No other candidate for this office.
For City Treasurer-Henry C. Hotaling, republican. 846*
Philander G. Wooster, prohibitionist. 210
For City Marshal-John T. Buchanan, republican .905*
John S. Withiel, populist 162
The new officers took their places on Monday, April 16, 1894; and T. P. Lukens was elected President of the Board of Trustees, or "Mayor " as commonly spoken of. [January 2, 1895, John S. Cox was elected presi- dent- then, in July a pair of twin boys were born to him !]
MEN CHOSEN TO HIGH OFFICE.
List of Pasadena men who have held State, County or National offices, or other public positions of high responsibility and trust :
COL. J. BANBURY : assemblyman, 1885-86 ; county treasurer, 1888 to 1892.
THOMAS BANBURY: director for sixth congressional district of the state agricultural commission. Appointed May 5, 1891.
CHAS. W. BELL : representative of Los Angeles county at the World's Fair in New Orleans, September to December, 1884.
DR. EZRA S. CARR : state superintendent of schools from December 1, 1875, to January 5, 1880.
MRS. JEANNE C. CARR : deputy state superintendent-same time. Member of state silk commission, 1884 to 1894.
DR. WM. F. CHANNING: member administrative council of the World's Congress of Electricians- 1892.
J. F. CRANK : assemblyman, 1881-82.
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