WHO WERE THESE MASONS OF LODGE #42 ?? JEWISH Morris L. Goodman served less than one term as the county supervisor. In January of 1861, he took office but resigned after only five months of working. Goodman was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1850 and was the only American on the council as well as the only Jew. In 1854 Goodman was a deputy sheriff in the San Fernando Valley. After Goodman left office in 1872, he opened up his own business in partnership with Theordore Rimpau. The business was located in Anaheim, California and was called Goodman & Rimpau Dry Goods Palace. Morris Klein: a signatory on many Masonic Cemetery Association land documents. Officer Masonic Cemetery Association. Officer Montebello Land and Water Company. Member of the Board and Secretary Union Bank & Trust Company Isaac Hauch Tailor, Merchant, property owner. Listed as early LA Pioneer Samuel Prager came to Los Angeles in 1854 after being in business with his brother Charles in the California Gold Rush town of Grass Valley. In Los Angeles he operated a dry goods and furniture store, also selling clothing, boots, and shoes. He was one of the first purveyers of oil in Los Angeles in 1867. Samuel Prager was an active Masonic Lodge #42, and served as chairman of the Masonic Board of Relief for over 40 years. He was a member of and served as President of the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Los Angeles. W.W.Wise Chairman of the Board Public Works City of Los Angeles. President Oatman Water and Sewer Company. Rabbi Abraham Blum was born in Gutzenheim, near Strasbourg, in Alsace in 1843 – when the province was under French rule. He was listed as Chaplin for Lodge # 42. From 1889 to 1895 he served as the 3rd rabbi of Congregation Bnai Brith. When President Benjamin Harrison visited Los Angeles in 1891, Rabbi Blum, in an interfaith and uniquely Jewish gesture, sent the President a box of matzoth. He was dismissed as Rabbi in 1895. He then moved to NYC there becoming a distinguished member of the community. Bernard Cohn was one of the originators of Hellman, Haas & Company (now Haas, Baruch & Company, the well-known grocers), and a pioneer of 1856. During the late seventies and early eighties, he was a man of much importance, both as a merchant and a City Father, sitting in the Council of 1888 and becoming remarkably well-read in the ordinances and decrees of the Los Angeles of his day. President Temple Bnai Brith. President Hebrew Benevolent Society. Samuel Mayer was Prussian by birth. Came to Los Angeles via Nicaragua. Prominent for half a century in the commerce of LA running a successful crockery and glassware establishment. Harris Newmark (1834-1916), son of a modest Prussian Jewish merchant, sailed to America in 1853 to join his older brother in Los Angeles. He made a fortune in real estate, the wholesale grocery business, and hides and wools, becoming a leader in the local Jewish community and the city at large.Harris Newmark was a founder of the original Los Angeles Public Library. He was a Charter Member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.Harris Newmark helped found the Los Angeles Board of Trade that was responsible from bringing the railroad to Southern California. In 1872 he and his cousin, Kaspare Cohn, purchased the Santa Anita Ranch of 8,000 acres for $85,000. A short time later they sold it to “Lucky” Baldwin for $200,000. In 1887 he served a President of Congregation B’nai B’rith. Was an advisor to Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society. Supported the Jewish Orphan Society. Had the honor of digging the first shovel of dirt for the groundbreaking of the Jewish Orphan’s Home of Los Angeles. In 1886 he purchased the Repetto Ranch with Kaspare Cohn and planned development of a new town to be called “Newmark.” However, his partners convinced him to change the name to “Montebello,” - Beautiful Mountain. In 1877 Newmark purchased the Temple Block, a towering structure of three stories at Temple and Main Streets. He sold it soon after to the city as a site for a new Los Angeles City Hall. Caspar Behrendt was a native of Danzig. He had resided in Mexico and in San Francisco prior to establishing himself in Los Angeles. He was an active merchant and had his residence on the south side of Fourth Street, just west of the present Angelus Hotel. Other notable pioneers, among them Solomon Lazard, George Workman and Harris Newmark, were attracted to him by reason of his fine character and superior intelligence. Into his store on Commercial street near Main there came people of every class and nationality then resident in Los Angeles. For forty-two years it had been his privilege to enjoy the devoted companionship of a capable wife, who now survives him, together with their daughter, Mrs. John Kahn, and the only son, Sam Behrendt. Mrs. Behrendt, formerly Hulda Cohn, is a daughter of Abraham and Rosalie (Newmark) Cohn, and a native of Prussia, Germany, where the family wielded considerable influence among those of their own race. Among the leading members of the family who came to the United States is her brother, Kaspare Cohn, who rose from poverty to affluence and is now numbered among the capitalists of Los Angeles, prior to 1885 a partner in the firm of H. Newmark and later the founder of the firm of K.Cohn & Co., also a stockholder in the Azusa Ice Company, San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation, Coalinga Water and Electric Company. California Commercial Company, Southern California Gas Company and Southern California Ice Company. Kaspare Cohn (born 6/14/1839 in West Prussia). His cousin was Harris Newmark . Cohn left employment of his cousin and went North to Red Bluff, California where he opened a crockery store. He returned to Los Angeles in 1866. There he entered into a partnership with Harris Newmark and his brother Samuel Cohn in grocery and dry goods wholesale/retail business which prospered. In 1879, H. Newmark & Company was dissolved. A new partnership of Harris Newmark, Kaspare Cohn and Morris A. Newmark thrived. Like many pioneer merchants, Kaspare Cohn invested in real estate. In 1887, records indicate he held $440 worth of real estate. In 1894 he was recorded as holding property valued at $44, 530 – a 100 times increase! In 1899 Harris Newmark and Kaspare Cohn owned and developed what is now known as the City of Montebello. (Kaspare gained his fortune in a variety of ways. He made considerable money when he and his partners sold the La Puente Rancho to Lucky Baldwin for $250,000. Funded the Kaspare Cohn Hospital. Went on to found the Commercial and Savings Bank in 1914 (it’d later be renamed Union Bank & Trust Co. of Los Angeles). Was a member of Bnai Brith Cemetery Committee. Was President of Temple Bnai Brith. Founded the Kaspare Cohn Hospital in honor of his brother. Isaac Norton moved to Los Angeles in 1869 and was the founder of an early building and loan firm, Metropolitan Building and Loan Assn. Issac Norton married Bertha Greenbaum. Bertha was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Greenbaum, the latter the first Jewish woman to come to Los Angeles, having arrived in 1851. Norton, a Vermonter, who had first practiced law in New York, then migrated west, and had later been a prime mover for, and a member of, the first California Constitutional Convention, and who was afterward Superior Court Judge at San Francisco. Norton was the second County Judge, succeeding Agustin Olvera and living with the latters family at the Plaza. Isaias W. Hellman was a banker and prominent financial figure of California and Oregon. He served as president of Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles, Nevada National Bank, and Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank. He also served as chairman of the board of directors of Union Trust Company of San Francisco, and director of the United States National Bank of Portland and the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Isaias W. Hellman was a Bavarian who came to the United States in 1842 and who established himself in Los Angeles in 1859. At first he was engaged in the stationery business, but by the end of the Civil War was a very important dry goods merchant. At the close of the period we are discussing, he entered into partnership with three other Masons, namely: William Workman, F. P. F. Temple and James R. Toberman, to carry on a banking business.Hellman was also a major investor in trolley lines, putting in funds in 1874 to start the Main Street and Agricultural Park Railway, which traveled from the Plaza, the heart of Los Angeless downtown, to Agricultural Park, a popular horse-racing track. Hellman eventually invested in many of the citys rail lines and with Henry Huntington formed the Los Angeles Railway in 1898 and the Pacific Electric Railway in 1901. Hellman was also a major investor in Los Angeless water, gas and electricity companies, and helped bring Southern Pacific Railroad to Los Angeles in 1876, which ended the isolation of the region. He was president of Bnai Brith in 1872 when the congregation built the citys first temple on Fort Street. In 1870, his cousin Isaiah M. Hellman was elected City Treasurer. Hellman was also a major landowner in Southern California and his holdings included numerous city lots and vast swaths of former rancho land. In 1871, he and a syndicate bought the 13,000-acre (53 km2) Rancho Cucamonga. In 1881, Hellman and members of the Bixby family purchased the 26,000-acre (110 km2) Rancho Los Alamitos (now home to Long Beach and Seal Beach). He also purchased the Repetto Ranch (now Montebello) with Harris Newmark and Kaspare Cohn. Hellman and Downey also bought up swaths of Rancho San Pedro from the Dominguez family. Hellman also owned much of Boyle Heights with William H. Workman. In 1879, Hellman joined some public-spirited citizens led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney, in what would be a significant legacy: the University of Southern California, the first university in the region. When Widney formed a board of trustees, he secured a donation of 308 lots of land from three prominent members of the community: horticulturist Ozro W. Childs; former California governor, Irish-Catholic pharmacist and businessman John G. Downey; and Hellman. The gift provided land for a campus as well as a source of endowment, the seeds of financial support for the nascent institution. A street on the USC campus is named after him. -Was member of Bnai Brith cemetery Committee. Was a President of Temple Bnai Brith. Rabbi Abraham Wolf Edelman, the man who prepared the solid foundation upon which Los Angeles Jewry is built, came to a kind of wild west frontier town. He served from 1862 – 1885 as Spiritual Leader of Congregation B’nai B’rith of Los Angeles. Elias Laventhal Early in 1855 the firm Rich, Newmark and Company was organized with the arrangement that Rich, who had done similar work with J. P. Newmark, should reside in San Francisco taking care of the business there, while Elias Laventhal, another partner, and Harris Newmark should manage the business in Los Angeles. The firm was prosperous, developing a wholesale trade as well as retail business. Was a Founder of Temple Bnai Brith. Wolf Kalisher was born in Russian occupied Poland in 1826. He received his United States Citizenship papers in Los Angeles in 1855. Wolf Kalisher was one of the earlier merchants occupying Bell’s Row. After the Civil War ended, Kalisher purchased a quarter section of Ranch Santa Gertrude consisting of 800 acres and an adobe house. A few years later he offered it for sale, not wanting to remain in the “horse” business. He later partnered with Henry Wartenberg in one of Los Angeles’ first manufacturing enterprises, a tannery, in 1871.As a merchant, Kalisher was noted for his hiring of local indians as workers as well as household help. For many years he helped indians with their desputes between indians and the local citizens. Wolf Kalisher was listed amoung the early minyan that eventually developed into Congregation B’nai B’rith, (today Wilshire Boulevard Temple). Once the synagogue was formally established, he was listed as Vice-President in 1862 Kalisher’s wife was Louise and together they had four children: Simon W., Mannie, Fannie, and Rose. Louise was the founding President of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society. Wolf Kalisher died in 1899. Heyman Solomon born Germany 1835, a pioneer of Los Angeles, died yesterday at his residence, 352 South Hill Street. He was 66 years old and lived half his life in this city. The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow from Masonic temple, the dead man having been a member of that order. Mr. Solomon was the first man to manufacture artificial ice in this city. Many years ago C. Ducommun saw a patent ice-making machine at the Paris exposition and shipped a machine to Mr. Solomon, who thus was the pioneer local iceman. He leaves a widow and four children. -Los Angeles Herald, 12/24/1901. Eugene Meyer born in France in 1842, came to Los Angeles in 1861 and worked in a dry goods store owned by Solomon Lazard. Eventually he bought the store, enlarged it, and named it the City of Paris. Eugene Meyer served as French consul in Los Angeles. In 1883 he moved to San Francisco to become the West Coast manager of Lazard Freres.Ten years later he moved to New York to head the company. Lazard Freres, a major international bank, is now located in Paris, France. He married Harriet Newmark, daughter of Los Angeles pioneer Joseph Newmark, in 1867. Morris Moritz (about 1836–1903) was a Los Angeles City Councilman He was a co-founder of B’nai Brith. Owned a vineyard in Los Angeles. One of two German-born brothers who settled in Los Angeles, California, in 1853 and became prominent retail merchants in the newly incorporated American city as well as community leaders. Other early Jewish pioneers who had businesses at the same location during the 1850′s and 1860′s, were Solomon Lazard, Henry Bauman, Maurice Kremer, Samson Laubheim, Wolf Kalisher, Henrey Wartenberg, Simon Ferner, H. Kraushaar, Jacob Rich, Isaac Schlesinger, Baruch Marks, Louis Schlesinger, Hyman Tischler and Samuel and Isaiah W. Hellman. Morris’s brother Julius was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 1861–63 and city treasurer in 1863–64 Founder Bnai Brith Temple. Edmund D. Roth, a native of Niederbronn, Alsace, France, became a pioneer in the wholesale wool business. Early in the twentieth century he closed out the wool business and engaged as manager of the Main street house of Kieffer & Co., with whom he continued in a position of the most confidential nature until his retirement from business in 1911. Jacob Elias One time Lodge Grand Master. A Founder of the Hebrew Benevolent Society. Petitioned LA Council for first Jewish cemetery in Chavez Ravine. Early Drygoods merchant. Owned 35 plots in what is now Hollywood. In 1860 Elias purchased Rancho San Rafael – currently the City of Glendale. Michael Levy French Jew Wealthy businessman. In wholesale wine and liquor business. One of California’s first wine producers. Extensive land holdings. Samuel Meyer was a businessman. He founded a large crockery and glassware establishment . Was active in Democratic party politics. Leopold Harris Leading merchant. Founder of Harris and Frank a clothing emporium. Extensive real estate holdings both in and around Los Angeles as well as San Bernadino. Opened first kosher meat market 1862. Leopold Harris was the first here to erect buildings on long term leases, among those being the Allen block, which he built in 1885, at the corner of Temple and Spring Streets. Secretary Hebrew Benevolent Society. ====================================================================================================================== * OTHERS Samuel Calvert Foy The original site of the house was part of the original Pueblo de Los Angeles lands at the corner of 7th Street and Figueroa Street (then known as Grasshopper Street) in Downtown Los Angeles. In 1872, Samuel Calvert Foy (September 23, 1840 - April 24, 1901) purchased the property from Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Foster for $1,000. Foy moved to Los Angeles in 1854 and operated a successful harness business at 217 Los Angeles Street, which was the oldest business establishment in the city at the time of his death.[3] Foy also served as the citys Chief of Police for a time. He built the Foy House at the corner of Grasshopper and 7th Streets in either 1872 or 1873, and it was there that Foy and his wife, Lucinda Macy Foy, raised their son and four daughters.[3] The house was reportedly the first three-story building in the city. At the time the Foys built their house, the site was considered to be way out in the country. Foys daughter, Mary Foy, was the citys first woman librarian from 1880-1884, a leader in the California Womens suffrage movement, a leader of the Democratic Party, and the first woman to be a member of one of the major parties national committees. Foy suffered from dropsical trouble during the last two years of his life and was eventually confined to the home. He died in April 1901, but his wife Lucinda Macy Foy remained in residence at the house. As the citys business district expanded rapidly in the 1910s, the one-and-a-half acre site became one of the choicest building sites in the business district with 217 feet of frontage on Figueroa Street and 236 feet on Seventh Street. The Wilshire Grand Hotel is located at the buildings original site. H. N Alexander Pres. LA County Democrats William Harvey Northcraft LA Common Council, 1884–86 Jeremiah Illich Restaurant Tavern Banquet Hall Owner Thomas E. Rowan (1842—1901) served as the 21st Mayor of Los Angeles from 1892 until 1894. Dr. Henry Sayre Orme was born at Milledgeville,Ga., on March 25, 1837, and died at Los Angeles Nov. 29, 1912. Dr. Orme attended the Oglethorpe University, from which institution he received the degree of A. B. in 1858. He then became a student in the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, and later at the University of New York, from which latter school he received the degree of M. D. in 1861. He became an assistant surgeon and subsequently surgeon in the Confederate Army, where he served from 1861 to 1865. After the war he entered private practice at Atlanta, Ga., where he remained until 1867, in which year he came to Los Angeles and remained until the time of his death. He was a member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association and one of the oldest members of the Medical Society of the State of California. He had been President of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, of the California i.j State Board of Health, and of the Medical Society of the State of California. For a number of years he was professor of hygiene in the Medical Department of the University of Southern California.Dr. Orme in the earlier years of his practice in California was one of the foremost students of Public Health and Hygiene, on which subjects he wrote a considerable number of papers. In 1876 he married Mary C. VandeGraaff. He is survived by one son. Dr. Ormes kindlv, courteous, warmhearted nature was appreciated by every one with whom he came in contact, and the older members of the State Society will not soon get over the sense of loss when they fail to see him at the meetings of the Society. Edward Fallis Spence was born in Ireland in 1832. He came to California in 1852, at the age of 19. He settled in Nevada City, embarking in the mining and drug businesses, where he continued for many years. While he was in Nevada City, he got his start in politics, filling the offices of City Trustee and County Treasurer. In 1860, he was elected to the California State Assembly on the Republican ticket. Member LA Common Council Records from 1867 show Edward Spence to be very active in the community. In that year, he was Senior Warden of Nevada Lodge #13, F&AM. He was also president of the Nevada fire department, Vice President of the Nevada Benevolent Society, a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a trustee of the Nevada County public schools. In 1869 Mr. Spence left Nevada City to make a tour of Europe. On his return to California, he came to San Jose. He stayed in San Jose for a relatively short time, but it was during this time that he first became connected with the banking business through the San Jose Savings Bank. During his time in San Jose, he remained involved in Masonry. He was a member of San Jose Lodge #10 until he demitted to become one of the founding members of Friendship Lodge in 1870, becoming its 2nd Worshipful Master in 1872. In 1872, Worshipful Spence went to San Diego, and was one of the organizers of the Commercial Bank there. Three years later, he went to Los Angeles, bought property, and helped to organize the Commercial bank of Los Angeles. In 1881, this bank was changed from a state to a national bank, and Worshipful Spence became its president. He eventually became connected with eight banks in southern California, becoming president of two of them. In 1884, Worshipful Spence returned to politics, being elected mayor of Los Angeles, and holding that office until 1866. One of his major achievements while mayor occurred in December of 1885, when he put together Los Angeless first salaried fire department and became its first fire chief. Henry Dwight Barrows (1825–1914) was an American teacher, businessman, farmer, goldminer, reporter, United States Marshall, Los Angeles County School Superintendent, manufacturer, writer, and a founder and president of the Historical Society of Southern California. From 1864 Barrows engaged in the mercantile business for fifteen years. On August 14, 1864, he married Mary Alice Workman, daughter of John D. Woodworth and widow of Thomas H. Workman, who was killed by the explosion of the steamer SS Ada Hancock in San Pedro Bay April 23, 1863. She died in Los Angeles March 9, 1868, leaving two daughters: Ada Frances, born May 21, 1865, and Mary Washington, born February 22, 1868, and died in infancy. Barrows third wife was Bessie A. Greene, a native of Utica, N.Y. They were married November 28, 1868, and had a son, Harry Prosper Barrows; born December 14, 1869. For many years prior to the 1880s Barrows took an active part in public education. For much of the time during fifteen years he served as a member of the school board of Los Angeles. In 1867 he was elected city superintendent, and in 1868, county superintendent. Samuel J. Beck (1845–1906) was a metallurgist and land developer who was a judge in Montana and a member of the State Legislature there in the 19th Century. He was also on the Los Angeles, California, Common Council from 1878 to 1880 and was president of that council during 1878–79. After moving to California, Beck was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council in December 1878 and was unanimously chosen council president in 1878–79. He was a council member in 1879–80 as well and was one of the principals in the opening and widening of both San Pedro and Seventh streets. He took an active part in the inaugurating and completing of the city waterworks, whereby the lands of the east and west parts of the city which had hitherto been barren were made to flower by irrigation. Beck, it was said, had the idea of building two large reservoirs, one of which became the nexus for the lake in Echo Park. Thomas Jefferson Cuddy, known as T.J. Cuddy, nicknamed Tom, (died 1901) was a 19th Century police chief in Los Angeles, California, and member of the Common Council, the citys governing body. Was a saloon owner. He served a six-month jail term for contempt of court. BUFFUM WILLIAM MANSFIELD Merchant Investments Los Angeles Cal, was born at Salem Mass May 10 1832 the son of James Rice and Susan Mansfield Buffum. Mr Buffums ancestry traces back to a notable line of New England forbears who have indelibly stamped their names on the history of the British colonies in America and the early period of the United States The family record forms an important chapter in the annals of Rhode Island the first member of the family taking up his abode there soon after Roger Williams established the first settlement. During the Revolutionary War period Mr Buffums progenitors were among the first to take up arms in the struggle for independence. Mr Buffums great grandfather was Lieutenant Benjamin Bates who in 1778 was given a commission by the Continental Congress as a lieutenant in the navy of the newly banded colonies. The original commission issued to Benjamin Bates Gentleman forms one of the interesting documents in the notable archives now in the possession of the Buffum family Lieutenant Bates served his country gallantly throughout the struggle and several important engagements in which he took part are recorded in the treasured annals of the nations early sea fighters. On the maternal aide Mr Buffum is a descendant of the Mansfields of New Hampshire who were among the early settlers in that State and one of whom became Governor of the commonwealth. In 1850 Mr Buffums brother George was appointed postmaster of Stockton Cal by President Taylor. Stockton at that time was one of the centers of the mining country that had been thrown open to the world but a year before by the discovery of gold. Here was enacted many of the scenes that have since become a part of the history of the American nation. Soon after his appointment George Buffum sent for his brother William Mansfield to assist him in the post office and in May 1850 Mr Buffum took passage at New York for San Francisco traveling by way of the Isthmus Reaching California. He immediately proceeded to Stockton where he assisted his brother in the introduction of the postal system. In 1859 Mr Buffum left Stockton and removed to Los Angeles where he became agent for the most important distilling concern in the West. In 1871 when the Territory of Arizona was first opened Mr Buffum was one of the first to enter business in that territory as a merchant. Although he remained in Los Angeles for several years thereafter he formed a partnership with the late John G Campbell under the firm name of Campbell and Buffum. This firm grew to be the most important merchandising concern in the territory and both its members played important parts in the formative history of the territory. At the time Mr Buffum went to Arizona General George Crook was governor of the military post at Prescott and here the firm opened its store. In 1873 Mr Buffum went to Prescott to join his partner in the business which had by that time assumed large proportions. Mr Buffum remained engaged in business Prescott until the early eighties. During his time there he was one of the first men interested the Arizona Verde mines which later became of the most famous copper properties in the West. With the late Gov FA Tritle of Arizona he owned this mine for several years. In 1889 Mr Buffum gave up his business in Arizona and returned Los Angeles where he became associated with M.H. Sherman and E.P. Clark who were engaged in financing and promoting the street systems in Pasadena and Los Angeles. He was made cashier of the company. As cashier and collector for the promoters he handled large sums of money. For years he remained with Mr Clark and at the same time engaging in the realty and in general investments on his account. At various times he was the owner of the largest and most important realty parcels in the present business district of Los Angeles. When the old Temple estate was subdivided he was one the largest purchasers investing heavily in that. He was one of the most optimistic believers in future of Los Angeles and his foresight was in bringing fortune to numerous men are now among the leading citizens of California. John Gately Downey (June 24, 1827 – March 1, 1894) was an Irish-American politician and the seventh governor of California from January 14, 1860 to January 10, 1862. Until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Downey was the only governor of California who was not born in the United States. Downey was also the first man from Southern California to be elected as governor. In 1883, Downey, along with his wife, Maria Jesus Guirado, the daughter of a prominent Spanish gentleman of Sonora, were involved in a train accident at Tehachapi Pass, when their train plunged into a ravine. A porter pulled Governor Downey out of the burning wreckage, but Mrs. Downeys body was never found. Following the accident and the death of Downeys wife, his friend Frank M. Pixley introduced him to the twenty-year-old Yda Hillis Addis, a new writer at Pixleys San Francisco journal The Argonaut. Downey was 32 years older than Addis, and they became engaged to marry. When Downeys two sisters discovered the betrothal, they were not pleased. Downey was a wealthy man; if he should pass away, his wealth would shift to Addis. The sisters took Downey and put him on a boat to Ireland. Addis sued for breach of promise, but left San Francisco before the trial. Some time after returning to the U.S., Downey married Rosa V. Kelly, of Los Angeles. In 1880 Downey had acquired the nearly 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) Warners Ranch in San Diego County, which was then still used for cattle ranching. In 1892 he moved to evict Cupeño American Indians who occupied some of the land as their traditional historic territory, especially near the hot springs (Agua Caliente.) The Cupeño challenged the eviction in a case that reached the US Supreme Court,[7] but by the time it was decided in 1901, Downey had died. While the court ruled the Cupeño did have a right to land, it said they had waited too long to press their case, according to a law about the issue when California entered the Union. In 1903 they were relocated to the Pala Indian Reservation about 75 miles (121 km) away.[8] F.P.F. Temple, Francisco Pliny Fisk (F.P.F) Temple (died 1880) started for Alta California a Mexican territory, by the way of Cape Horn, arriving at Los Angeles in the summer of 1841. There his brother, Jonathan Temple, who had established himself as a pioneer merchant in 1827, was then the leading merchant of the Pueblo de Los Angeles.n 1845. Temple married Antonia Margarita Workman (July 26, 1830–January 24, 1892) the daughter of William Workman and his Taos Native American wife Maria Nicolasa Urioste de Valencia. They had 12 children. In 1851, Workman gave Temple an undivided half share in Rancho La Merced located 12 miles (19 km) east of Los Angeles where he made his home. He planted a vineyard of 30,000 vines, 30 acres (120,000 m²) of fruit trees, and a garden. Temple became involved with real estate, and with breeding and selling cattle. In 1850 he was elected to be the Los Angeles city treasurer, and in 1852 he served on the first Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. In 1868 Temple with his father-in-law William Workman and Isaias W. Hellman formed the banking house of Hellman, Temple & Co. Three years later Hellman dropped out of the business, but the partnership between Temple and Workman continued as the Temple & Workman Bank in a downtown Los Angeles area known as the Temple Block. In 1875, when nearly every bank in the state closed its doors for a time, Temple & Workman Bank went bankrupt due to mismanagement. Both men lost everything. Temple never recovered from the financial disaster, and Workman committed suicide a year later. On April 27, 1880, Temple died and is buried in the Workman and Temple family El Campo Santo Cemetery.[4] He was 58, and was survived by his wife, Antonia, and seven children: Thomas, William, John, Lucinda, Maggie, Walter P. Temple and Charles. Robert Eckert: Tavern owner Walter Scott Moore: also known as W.S. Moore, (1853–1919) was the president of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council in 1883–84 and chief engineer of the citys Fire Department at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. He was ousted during an investigation into fraud in the department. Moore served for four years as a deputy collector of internal revenue, and in December 1885 he and A.E. Sepulveda, another deputy, were acquitted by a United States Commissioner of unlawfully obtaining money for carriage hire from the government. He was the Republican candidate for California Secretary of State in 1886 and also ran for the state Senate. In 1888, Moore was elected to a Board of Freeholders that wrote the first city charter for Los Angeles and was chosen as the boards secretary. Theodore Summerland (1853–1919) was the Los Angeles County, California, assessor in 1894-1903 when the California Supreme Court decided that the assessor was not entitled to commissions on the taxes that he collected. He also served two terms on the Los Angeles City Council and was on the California Railroad Commission. During 1904-06 he was City Council president. Summerland died on December 5, 1919, at Clara Barton Hospital in Los Angeles. Robert E. Wirsching served as county supervisor for one term. He was elected in November1896 and assumed office on Jan. 4, 1897.Wirsching was born Feb. 15, 1846 in Saxe-Meiningen, Germany. When he was six, the familyimmigrated to America and settled in Connecticut, where he grew up and went to public schools.In 1875 Wirsching moved to Los Angeles to seek his fortune. He partnered with a friend andformed the firm of Rees & Wirsching, selling farm equipment and wagons. The duo made aname for themselves by breaking away from the dominating influence then held by SanFrancisco over the Southern California trade. The two began buying their goods wholesale fromthe East, and cutting out the middleman suppliers from San Francisco. Rees & Wirsching are considered the pioneers in the trade movement that culminated in making Los Angeles the wholesale center it is today. In 1889 Wirsching’s business success and civic-mindedness as a member of the RepublicanParty led to his election to the Los Angeles City Council as a member of the ninth ward. He later served as fire commissioner as well as police commissioner, and then was elected to the Boardof Supervisors. He later served as president of the Board of Public Utilities before retiring from public life after 20 years in politics.Credits include membership in the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Foresters and the Ancien tOrder of United Workmen. In 1912 Wirsching died. He was 76. James H Lander Los Angeles City Attorney 1860. LA County 1st Court Commissioner, First Secretary Los Angeles County Bar Assn. Frank Radermacher Ice and industrial refrigeration business. S.K Lehman S.K. Lehman & Co. Electrical Equipment Manufacturer W.J. Fleckenstein Dentist Edward A. Pruess Druggist TO BE CONTINUED
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