Lazard, Max, 89
Lazard, Solomon, 65, 71, 89, 120, 123, 133, 163, 224, 287,
290, 347, 365, 366, 383, 449, 489, 503, 504, 508, 618, 637;
Mrs. --, 224, 253, 347, 508, 637; -- & Co., 132, 171, 229,
355, 362, 400, 452; -- & Kremer, 71, 189; -- & Wolfskill, 72
Lazarowich, Joe, 550
Lazarus, P., 230, 365; Mrs. --, 365; -- Stationery Co., 365
Lea, Homer, 644
Lead mines, 385, 388
Lechler, George and Mrs., 235
Leck, Henry v. d. and Mrs., 64
Leck, Lorenzo, 64, 78, 259, 304, 409; Mrs. --, 304, 317;
--'s Hall, 314
Lecouvreur, Frank, 149, 152, 230, 319, 344, 403, 411; Mrs.
--, 411
Lectures, public, 190, 623
Ledger, reflections caused by an old, 219
Ledyard, Captain, 338
Lee, Bradner W., 475, 516, 517
Lee, Bradner W., Jr., xvi
Lee, Charles, 453
Lee, John D., 217
Lee, John P., 325
Lee, Robert Edward, 328, 353
Leech, William P., 627
Leeds, England, 276
Leggings, leather, 159
Legislature appealed to, 207
Lehman, Andrew, 86
Lehman, George, 192, 193, 272, 273, 417, 463, 522ff.
Leiter, Levi Z., 602
Leiter, Mary Victoria, 602
Lelande, H. J., xvi
Lelong, Joseph, 77
Lemberg, Fred, 351
Lemons, and lemon-culture, 211, 212, 412
Lemon, Frank, 476
Lemon, William, 476
Le Mésnager, George, 541
Le Moyne, Francis Julius, 567
Leon, Ralph, 481
Leonis, Miguel, 310
Le Sage, Gideon, 470
Lessen, 3
Letter boxes, 94, 410
Letter, Jacob, 72
Letts, Arthur, 613
Levering, Noah, 540
Levy, E. J., 601
Levy, Isaac, xvi
Levy, Michael, 372; -- & Co., 372; -- Coblentz, 372
Lewin, Louis and Mrs. 365; -- Co., Louis, 365
Lewis, David, 91; and Mrs., 93
Lewis, John A., 93; --, McElroy & Rand, 93
_Lewis Perry_, 237, 276, 290
Lewis, S. B., 589, 607
Lewis, Thomas A., 589
Libby Prison, 295
Libraries, loan, 428
Library Association, Los Angeles, 443
Library, Los Angeles, 257, 443, 513, 542, 593, 638; --,
first, 256; transferred to the City, 513
Lichtenberger, H., 607
Lichtenberger, Louis, 153, 154, 428
Lick, James, 71, 216, 568
Liebre, Rancho de la, 195
_Lied von der Glocke, das_, 119
Life insurance, 319
_Life and Sport in the Open_, 558
Lighthouses, first here, 473; --, at Catalina, 319
Lighting of streets and buildings, 34, 349, 408, 410
Lightner, Isaac, 344
Lily Langtry Tract, 575
Lincoln, Abraham, 142, 236, 238, 249, 264, 289, 297, 307,
315, 330, 334, 337, 338, 339, 399, 595; vote in Los Angeles,
282
Lindley, Albert, 473
Lindley, Henry, 473
Lindley, Ida B., 473
Lindley, Milton, 473
Lindley Walter, 322, 473, 589, 641
Lindskow, 404
Lindville, 405
Lips, Charles C., 356, 409, 449, 539
Lips, Walter, 356; --, Craigue & Co., 356
Lissner, Meyer, 639
Little, W. H., 206, 207
Littlefield, J. C., 444
Little Lake, 387
Liverpool, England, 8, 9, 10, 381, 447, 493
Livery stables, 377, 383, 389, 429
Livingstone, David, 211
Llewellyn, David, 559
Llewellyn, Llewellyn J., 559; -- Iron Works, 559
Llewellyn, Reese, 559
Llewellyn, William, 559
Lloyd, Reuben, 474
Locomotives (see under Railroads)
Lock-boxes, postal, 372
Locust trees, black, 162, 539
Loeb, Edwin J., xv., 355
Loeb, Joseph P., xv., 355, 637
Loeb, Leon, 355, 383, 540, 606; Mrs. --, 355, 636
Loebau, 1, 5, 7, 12, 360, 361, 564, 621
Loew, Jacob, 87, 367, 425; Mrs. --, 367
Loewenstein, Emanuel, 75
Loewenstein, Hilliard, 75, 233; Mrs. --, 75
Loewenthal, Max, 75
Logan, honey dealer, 127
Lomas de Santiago _rancho_, 170
London, 360, 407
London & San Francisco Bank, 412
Lone Pine, 375
Long Beach, 166, 167, 374, 519, 580, 601, 620; -- disaster,
647
Longevity, 493, 528, 649
Longfellow, Henry W., 624
Lopez, bandit, 209
Lord, Isaac W., 377, 449, 489, 505, 563, 576
Lordsburg, 576, 578
Loricke, E. M., 462
Loring, Frederick, 430, 431
Los Angeles, 6, xv., 22ff., 36, 52, 205, 231, 240, 258, 313,
338, 348, 349, 365, 379, 388, 400, 402, 417, 440ff., 445,
504, 510, 528, 539, 541, 557, 598, 614, 618, 626, 640, 642,
643; extension of hospitality, 398, 639
Los Angeles advertised at the Centennial, 483, 498
Los Angeles and consolidation with harbor towns, 638
_Los Angeles and Environs_, 620
Los Angeles and the Civil War, 294, 299ff., 305, 308, 311,
316, 318, 321, 323, 326, 328, 330, 333, 334, 337ff., 350,
353, 371
Los Angeles and the Southern Pacific Railroad problem, 440
ff, 489, 502ff
Los Angeles as market for the interior, 385; as market for
whalers, 308
Los Angeles charity, criticism of, 431
Los Angeles Coffee Saloon, 279
Los Angeles College, 566
Los Angeles College Clinical Association, 367
Los Angeles County, 25, 35, 92, 188, 426; organization of,
35; ownership of, 166; proposed divisions of, 406, 593;
reward unpaid, 425
_Los Angeles County, An Historical Sketch of_, 365, 501
_Los Angeles County, History of_, (Guinn) 620
Los Angeles County Bank, 466
Los Angeles County Homeopathic Medical Society, 548
Los Angeles County Railroad, 592
Los Angeles Court House, adobe, 40, 256; Temple --, 67, 294,
339, 441, 449; present --, 301, 452
Los Angeles Crematory Society, 567
Los Angeles, early views of, 364
Los Angeles Furniture Co., 378
Los Angeles Gas Co., 489
Los Angeles Guards, 499
Los Angeles Harbor, 545, 637, 642; -- Board, 642; --
dredging, 426; proposed harbors, 581. (See _Harbor
Contest_.)
_Los Angeles, History of_, (Willard) 646
Los Angeles High School, 301, 419, 452, 532; first --
student to enter State University, 536
Los Angeles Infirmary, 210
Los Angeles Medical Society, 370
Los Angeles Pacific Railroad Co., 613
Los Angeles, panoramic views of, 364
Los Angeles Produce Exchange, 537
Los Angeles Rifleros, 499
Los Angeles River, 116, 258, 289, 398, 412; --, right to
water of, 541
Los Angeles Saddlery Co., 82
Los Angeles Savings Bank, 358
Los Angeles Soap Co., 470
Los Angeles Social Club, 383, 500
Los Angeles Soda Water Works, 363
_Los Angeles_: steamer, 346; little steamer, 395, 398, 404;
locomotive, 402, 404
Los Angeles Street, 30, 288, 383, 400, 408, 433, 472, 510
Los Angeles Terminal Railroad, 597
Los Angeles Theater, 590
Los Angeles Water Co., 366, 377, 384, 389, 418, 446, 510,
534, 617
Los Angeles & Independence Railroad, 485, 487, 488, 521,
569; --depot, 485
Los Angeles & San Gabriel Valley Railroad, 549, 585
Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, 295, 318, 321, 334, 353,
354, 363, 370, 375, 380, 383, 384, 393, 396, 404, 408, 430,
440, 441, 452, 506, 521; --, depot, (later owned by the
Southern Pacific) 107, 383, 393, 400, 401, 403; first train
into Los Angeles, 401; first regular trains, 403; first
midnight train, 402; first popular excursion, 402
Los Angeles & Truxton Railroad, 460
Lothian, I. A., 619, 635
Lott, A. E., 386
Lotteries, land sales by, 573
Louis French, 369
Louis Vielle (Louis _Gordo_), 369
Louisiana Coffee Saloon, 279
Love, Harry, 58
Lover's Lane, 198
Low, Frederick, F., 323, 338
Lowe, Ella Housefield, xvi
Lowe, T. S. C., 561, 604; -- Railroad, Mount, 604; --
Astronomical Observatory, 604
Lowe, W. W., 521
Lowenthal, Henry, 627
Lucky, W. T., 389, 452
Lugo, António María, and the Lugo family, 35, 47, 74, 102,
135, 159, 167, 168, 174, 183, 200, 214, 253, 263, 376
Lugo, Felipe, 220, 242
Lugo, José del Carmen, 87, 174
Lugo, José María, 87, 99, 174
Lugo, José Ygnácio, 171, 263
Lugo, Magdalena, 171
Lugo, Vicente, 87, 99, 102, 174
Lugo, Ygnácio, 74, 158, 174
Luleå, 4
Lumber-famine, 380
Lumber, from San Bernardino, 88; -- yards, 81, 88, 274, 380
Lummis, Charles F., 232, 364, 541ff., 593, 607, 626, 638,
646, 647, 648; personality, 542; on the memoirs of Harris
Newmark, xii
Lummis, M. Dorothea, 548
_L'Union Nouvelle_, 516
_Lusitania_, sinking of the, 644
Last, C. F. A., 607
Lynch, Joseph D., 516, 556, 581
Lynchings: Brown, 140; Alvitre, 147; Flores, 209; Daniel,
223; Cota, 304; Daimwood, 324; wholesale, 325; Cerradel,
326; Wilkins, 327; Lachenais, 420; Chinese, 30, 433; --,
defense of, 141; --, El Monte boys at, 91, 324, 471
Lyons, Cy, 194, 195; --'s Station, 194
Lyons, Sanford, 194
M
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, xi
MacGowan, Granville, 201
McArthur, Anna, 107
McBride, James, 404
McConnell, J. R., 597
McCoy, Frank, 579
McCracken, T. W., 416
McCrea, John, 404
McCrellish, Frederick J., 270, 271, 283ff.; -- & Co., 270
McCullough, J. G., 341
McDonald, Edward N., 218; -- Block, 206, 218, 545
McDonald, N. A., 404
McDougal, F. A. and Mrs., 168, 383
McDowell, Hugh, 617
McDowell, Irwin, 341
McElroy, John, 93
McFadden, James, 506
McFadden, P., 366
McFadden, William, 419
McFarland, Albert, 556
McFarland, James P., 107, 109; -- & Downey, 109
McGarry Tract, 574
McGarvin, D. C., 607
McGinnis, Ed., 137
McGroarty, John S., 102
McGuire, Thomas, 422
McKee, H. S., 625
McKee, William, 107, 163, 321, 539
McKinley, William, 616, 618
McKinney, Preston, 559
McLain, George P., 446; -- & Lehman, 559
McClellan, Bryce, 464, 483
McClellan, George F., 483
McClellan, H., 483
McLoughlin, Ben, 153
McMullen's Station, 415
Machado, Augustin, 63, 179
Machado, Susana, 63
Machado, Ygnácio, 179
_Machete_, 231
Mackey, A. F., 587
Maclay, Charles, 459
Macniel, Hugh Livingston, 561
Macy, Lucinda, 106
Macy, Obed, 26, 91, 92, 150, 297; -- Street, 92, 198, 412
Macy, Oscar, 91, 92, 210, 216, 297
Madigan, Eliza, 321, 355
Madigan, Mike, 383; -- lot, 396
Madox, A., 91
Madras, 547
Magic performances, 318
Magruder, John B., 224
Mahler, first Jewish child to die here, 104
Mahlstedt, Mrs. D., 527
Maier, Simon, 69, 607
Mail, dead-letter, 267; --, disturbed, 291; --, sent by
express company, 374, 375; Overland --, 256, 259; uncertain
arrival of --, 235, 374; -- routes, 361; improvement in
despatch of --, 264; small amount of -- business, 431;
introduction of money-orders by --, 431; -- by stages, 234,
373, 374
Main Street, 31, 32, 73, 112, 125, 158, 335, 472, 518, 519,
535, 543, 561, 573, 584
Main Street Savings Bank, 561
Main Street & Agricultural Park Railway Co., 389, 462
_Maine_, the, 616
Maison Dorée, 513
Major, L. A., 516
Mallard, Augusta, 361
Mallard, Joseph Stillman, 33, 36, 89, 205, 361, 364, 411;
Mrs. --, 46; -- Street, 36
Mallard, Mary, 411
Mallard, Walter, 89
Mallory, Stephen Russell, 467
Maloney, Richard, 239
Manilla, 365
Manning, Celeste, xvi
Manning, Joe, 464
Mansfield, John, 541, 587, 597
Manufacturers' Association, 611
Marble-cutter, first, 406
Marchessault, Damien, 132, 241, 258, 350, 366
Mariguana, 14
Mariposa, 148
Mariposa, La, 550
Mariposa Big Trees, 272
Market House, Temple, 240, 241, 258, 263, 294
Markham, Henry Harrison, 378, 517, 598
Marks, Baruch, 75; -- & Co., B., 75
Marriages, native, 136
Marsh, William, 149
Marshall & Henderson, 537
Marshals, U. S., 315, 543
Martial law, 207
Martin & Co., E., 356
Martin, Jack, 268
Martin, Mrs. Peter, 355
Martin, W. H., 237
Martinez, Nicolás, 391
Mascarel, José, 62, 63, 65, 339, 341, 423, 596; -- & Barri,
189
Masonic Temple, San Francisco, laying of corner-stone, 270
Masons, F. & A., 156, 208, 317, 371, 624; Lodge No. 42, 26,
105, 118, 203
Massachusetts Cavalry, Second, 295
Matches, Swedish, 120
Mathes, S. J., 482
Mathews, John R., 537
Maurício, Maurice, 191
Maximilian, Emperor, 224, 359
Maxwell, George W., 567
Maxwell, Walter S., 71, 537, 568; Mrs. --, 71
Mayerhofer, Josephine, 191
Mayors of Los Angeles, 32, 33, 36, 50, 100, 105, 115, 147,
218, 288, 302, 372, 379, 388, 398, 399, 445, 467, 556, 561,
566, 613, 616, 638, 639, 642; Mayor as Justice of Peace, 524
Mazatlán, 23, 27
Meat-packers, 482
Meat, price affected by cold, 381
Mechanics' Institute, 190
Medical aid, visiting Europe for, 164
Medical colleges, Los Angeles, 280, 593; first medical
school, 548
_Medical Profession of Southern California, History of the_,
641
Medicines, early, 110
Meiggs, Harry, 21
Mellus, Francis, 35, 36, 39, 61, 87, 105, 119, 132, 137,
227, 256, 265, 288; Mrs. --, 61, 227
Mellus, Henry, 39, 85, 132, 133, 226, 227, 256, 268, 284,
288; Mrs. --, 85, 133, 227; -- & Howard, 61
Mellus, James J., 61, 537, 607
Mellus' Row, 60, 61, 71, 75, 248, 309, 313, 351, 472
Mendell, George H., 618
Mercantile Place, 539
Merced Ranch, 167, 520
Merchandise, bet on races, 161; --, early prices of, 73
Merchandising, extravagant stories about, 38
Merchants' Association, 605, 611
Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, 611, 634
Merchants, small stocks of, 311; --, tricks of, 131, 177
Merrymaking, 135
_Mesa_, 322
_Mescal_, 134, 205, 424
Mesmer, Joseph, 244, 630
Mesmer, Louis, 191, 244, 303, 380, 523, 581, 596
Messer, Kiln, 123, 200, 274, 275, 410; Mrs. --, 442
Methodists, 103, 340, 516
Metlakahtla, 602
Metropolitan Building, 639
Mexican War, 108, 169; -- Veterans, 138, 499
Mexicans, 89, 322, 330, 333; _cuisine_ of, 102, 133, 630;
dress of, 99, 157; goods of, 62, 66, 279; as laborers, 25;
as outlaws, 206, 333; as illiterate voters, 42
Mexico, 397; peace proclamation of, 400
Mexico, City of, 57, 546
Meyberg, Max, 605, 606, 639; -- Bros., 611
Meyberg, Mrs. Morris, xvi
Meyer, Constant, 452
Meyer, Edgar J., 644
Meyer, Eugene, 68, 198, 237, 290, 355, 366, 377, 381, 383,
400, 450, 452, 464, 466, 480, 499, 523, 540, 644; Mrs. --,
196, 290, 377, 564, 637, 644; -- & Co., Eugene, 452, 643
Meyer, Isaac A., 309; -- & Breslauer, 309
Meyer, J. A., 297
Meyer, Louisa, xvi
Meyer, Mendel, 233, 459
Meyer, Samuel, 26, 75, 150, 194, 233, 309, 383; Mrs. --, 75
Meyer & Breslauer, 309
Meying, William, xvi
Michaels, M., 72
Micheltorena, Manuel, 92, 178
Midwinter Fair, San Francisco, 605
_Mikado_, 547
Miles, Charles E., 446, 454, 457
Miles, Nelson A., 581, 586, 587
Military academy, first, 622; -- bands, 296, 394, 398, 579;
-- posts, Los Angeles trade with, 265
Milk, early peddling of, 172
Miller, marble cutter, 406
Miller, John M., 543
Miller & Lux, 458
Milliner's advertisement, 492
Millington, S. J., 427
Mills and millers, 54, 87, 213, 218, 367, 381, 470, 581
Millspaugh, Jesse F., 532
Milner, John, 404, 452, 568; Mrs. --, 527
Miner, Randolph Huntington, 473, 612; Mrs. --, 473
Mining and miners, 17, 94, 108, 123, 126, 148, 149, 228,
268, 271, 318, 321, 385ff., 474, 475, 476, 477
Minstrels, 186
Mint Valley, 415
Minting, early, 130
Miron, Juan María, 202
Miron, Juana, 202
_Mirror_, Los Angeles, 444, 474, 482, 530, 533, 617
Mission Dolores, 276
Mission Fathers, 88, 92, 101, 115, 199
Mission Inn, Frank Miller's, 625
Mission Play, 102
Mission Road, 42, 533
Missions (see under Spanish Missions)
Mitchell, Charles E., xvi
Mitchell, Henry Milner, 417, 455, 457, 488, 499; --, shot by
mistake, 517; Mrs. --, 517
Mitchell, John S., 492
Mix, W. A., 405
Mob, psychology of the, 324
Modjeska, Helena, 494, 495; -- Avenue, 495
Moerenhaut, Jacob A., 254, 317, 501
Moffatt & Co., 130
Moffitt, A. B., 521
Mohave County, Arizona, 92
_Mohongo_, 465
Moiso, Jim, 550
Mojave, desert, 317; Fort --, 281; --, town of, 386, 387
_Molino, El_, 54
Mondonville, 579
Money, exchange with San Francisco, 129; expressing -- as
coin to San Francisco, 129; hoarding -- in bags, 129; --
orders, first foreign, 431
Monk, Hank, 429
Monroe, William N., 563
Monrovia, 467, 563, 576, 578, 620
Montana, 304, 351
Monte, El, 71, 88, 90, 91, 92, 107, 150, 196, 207, 234, 251,
261, 317, 324, 325, 354, 426, 452, 471
Montebello, 535
Monterey, 22, 47, 254, 255, 279, 520
_Monterey_, steamer, 465
Monte Vista, 579
Montgomery Saloon, 31, 209, 282
Moody, Dwight L., 590
Moore, C. E., 642
Moore, Maggie, 381
Moore, Walter S., 71, 464, 587; Mrs. --, 71
Moore, William, 319
Moran, John, 363
More, Ira, 532, 604
Moreno, bankrupt, 68
Moreno, Francisco, 159
Morford, W. E., 476
Morgan, Octavius, 469, 568
Morgan, Cosmo, 465; -- & Newmark, 465
Mormons, 87, 88, 151, 155, 156, 217, 218, 242, 320, 345
_Morning Call_, San Francisco, 427
Morris, Herman, 72
Morris, Jacob, 72
Morris, J. L., 72, 383
Morris, Moritz, 72, 356, 383, 540; -- Bros., 104; --
Vineyard, 104, 539
Morris, shoemaker, 86
Morrison, Murray, 185, 295, 365, 436; Mrs. --, 185, 436
Morsch, Fred, 409
Mortimer, C. White, 597
Morton, F., 65, 66, 152, 248
Morton, Levi P., 617
Mosher, L. E., 583, 607, 616
Mosquito Gulf, 14
Mott, John G., 72
Mott, Stephen Hathaway, 82, 366, 472, 534
Mott, Thomas D., 64, 72, 73, 81, 82, 160, 181, 309, 311,
323, 324, 335, 366, 383, 440; Mrs. --, 181, 309; -- Hall,
590; -- Market, 590
Moulton, Elijah T., 171, 289; Mrs. --, 171
Mountain Meadow Massacre, 106, 217
Mountain travel, difficulty of, 120, 121, 285
Mounted Rifles, Los Angeles, 294
Mud Springs, 387
Mueller, Otto, 518
Muir Glacier, 602
Mulberry-tree, 390
Mule Springs, 414
Mules, 16, 92, 312; on street railways, 462; mule trains,
187, 312, 385
Mulholland, William, 50, 509, 555
Mullally, Joe, 396; --, Porter & Ayers, 83
Mumus, 125
Municipal and County Adobe, 36, 40, 41, 209, 256, 324, 338,
530
Municipal League, 545, 646
Munk, J. A., 636, 647, 648
Murat, John, 258
"Murchison, Charles F.," 590; -- Letters, 590
Murders, 31, 35, 46, 58, 139, 190, 206, 303, 304, 323, 324,
326, 327, 330, 340, 418, 424, 430, 432, 470, 512, 629
Murdoch, W. T., 610
Murieta, Joaquín, 58
Murphy, Joe, 381
Murphy, Sheriff, 223
Muscupiabe, 90
Museum of History, Science and Art, 110, 159, 238, 253, 258,
291, 457, 479, 622, 631, 640, 645
Mushet, W. C., 639
Music, early, 157, 183, 193, 268, 398; Spanish and Mexican,
--, 22, 31; -- teachers, 373; musicians, 183, 213, 214, 412
Mustard, wild, 126
Mutton, 216
Myles, Henry R., 109, 111, 320
N
Nadeau, George A., 304
Nadeau, H., 492
Nadeau, Remi, 304, 385ff., 421, 513, 534, 558; -- Block,
558; --Hotel, 385, 513, 518, 534, 587; -- Park, 576, 579; --
Station, 388; _rancho_, 388
Napa Valley, 199
Naples, 621
Naples, California, 630
Nast, Thomas, 590
Natick House, 63, 77
_Nation, The_, xii
National Hotel, 396
Natives, naïve temperaments of, 162
Naud, Edouard, 202, 288; Mrs. --, 202; --'s Warehouse, 288
Needles, 440
Negroes, 123, 138, 330, 527; negro troops, 330
Negros, Calle de los, 30, 98, 288, 510
Neuendorffer, R. C., xvi
Neumark, West Prussia, 1
Neuner, M. C., 639
Nevada Bank, San Francisco, 595
New Arlington Hotel, 418, 552
New High Street, 472
Newberry, John R., 551
Newell, Jerry, 83
Newfoundland, storm off, 11
Newhall, Walter S., 607
Newhall, 41, 95, 170, 504
Newman, Edward, 330
Newmark, Abraham, son of Joseph Newmark, 538
Newmark, Augusta, wife of J. P. Newmark, 163, 191, 240;
death of, 611
Newmark Bros., 559
Newmark, Caroline, daughter of Joseph Newmark, 121, 347
Newmark, Edith, daughter of Harris Newmark, 470
Newmark, Edward J., son of Joseph Newmark, 121, 376, 624
Newmark, Edward J., son of Harris Newmark, 515
Newmark, Ella, daughter of Harris Newmark, 517, 533
Newmark, Emily, daughter of Harris Newmark, 367
Newmark, Estelle, daughter of Harris Newmark, 355
Newmark (Neumark), Esther, mother of Harris Newmark, 1, 2,
3, 7; death of, 360
Newmark, Harriet, daughter of Joseph Newmark, 121, 195, 290
Newmark, Harriet, daughter of J. P. Newmark, 444
Newmark (Neumark), Harris, son of Philipp Neumark, birth, 1;
boyhood, 2; accompanies father to Sweden, 3, 649; first
experience at sea, 3; in Denmark and Sweden, 4; returns to
Loebau, 4; becomes shoeblacking apprentice, 4; visits
Finland, 5; experience with Russian bigotry, 5; last winter
at Loebau, 5; invited by brother, J. P. Newmark, to come to
California, 6; leaves Gothenburg for America, 7; forms
peculiar acquaintance, 7ff.; lands at Hull, 8; arrested
with fellow-passenger at Liverpool, 9; misses steamer, 9;
sails from Liverpool, 10; narrowly escapes shipwreck, 11;
arrives at New York, 12; tries peddling--for a day, 13;
sails for California _via_ Nicaragua, 14; crosses the
Isthmus, 15; adventure on a mule, 16; shares the
vicissitudes of the trip with Lieutenant William Tecumseh
Sherman, 17; reaches the Pacific, 18; enters the Golden
Gate, 19; meets Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Newmark and family, 121;
absorbed with early San Francisco life, 19ff.; continues
sea-trip to Southern California, 22; disembarks at San
Pedro, 22; meets Phineas Banning, 23; comes by stage to Los
Angeles, 24; amazed at first sight of Indians, squirrels and
_carne seca_, 25; reunion with brother, 26; clerks for
brother, 27; makes rounds of Los Angeles gambling dens, 30
ff.; faces gun of drunken neighbor, 58; and confronts weapon
of another joker, 60; early associations with Mayor Nichols,
32; acts as agent for Henry Hancock, 37; lives in the family
of Joseph Newmark, 121; first meeting with George Hansen,
37; friendship with George Carson, 217; learns Spanish
before English, 121; becomes charter member of Los Angeles
Hebrew Benevolent Society, 123; establishes himself in
business, 128; sacrifices necessary to attain success, 128;
first business profits, 128; duns a debtor at some personal
risk, 144; becomes partner in Rich, Newmark & Co., 146;
business trips and adventures, 150ff.; attends bull-fight,
161; experiences first earthquake, 165; participates in
early social life, 183; forms friendship with Cameron E.
Thom, 228; proposes marriage to Miss Sarah Newmark, 103;
third business venture, 189; revisits San Francisco, 191;
rides horseback to Fort Tejón, 194ff.; begins buying hides,
196; joins the Masonic order, 203; second experience with
earthquake, 204; as Vigilante, 205; again visits San
Francisco, 211; dealings with Louis Robidoux, 175; engages
in sheep business, 220; eyewitness to slaying of Sheriff
Getman, 221; marries Miss Sarah Newmark, 224, 589; engages
in the clothing trade, 237; unfortunate business venture at
Fort Tejón, 248; participates in a _rodeo_, 242; forms
friendship with Winfield Scott Hancock, 246; N. on Hancock's
patriotism, 300; becomes citizen of the United States, 249;
associations with Juan Bandini, 255; appointed Deputy County
Treasurer, 260; delegate to Masonic ceremonies, San
Francisco, 270; first opportunity to use the telegraph, 271;
cordial relations with Senator Gwin, 296; sees lynching of
Cota, 304; embarks in the commission business, 310; suffers
first loss of a child, 317; is examined for health and
becomes pioneer policy holder of Germania Insurance Company,
319; present at wholesale lynching, 324; condones lynch-law,
141; probable narrow escape from accidental assassination,
330; observes fearful effect of drought, 329; loss in hide
speculation, 331; pays high price for flour and beans, 332;
buys first home, 335; plays poker in jury-room, 55;
represses an anti-Lincoln demonstration and saves a friend,
337; in response to a threat, establishes, with Phineas
Banning, the firm of H. Newmark, soon H. Newmark & Co., 342
ff.; takes Frank Lecouvreur into his service, 344; dealings
with Mormons, 345; forces business competitors to
capitulate, 353; buys out Banning, 353; spectator at the
King-Carlisle duel, 348; also at the Kewen-Lemberg affray,
351; decides to remove to New York, 359; with family,
crosses the Isthmus of Panamá, 359; opens branch office in
the metropolis, 359; buys home in New York, 359; revisits
Europe, and sees again birthplace and father, 360; at the
Paris Exposition of 1867, 360; unpleasant predicament at
Covent Garden, 360; bears to Miss Mary Hollister proposal of
marriage from Phineas Banning, 368; returns to Los Angeles,
376; imports one of the first grand pianos seen here, 376;
introduces finger-bowls, 377; installs bathroom in adobe,
119; buys city acreage at auction, 379; purchases site for
home on Fort Street, 68, 381; helps organize first social
club, 383; friendship with Remi Nadeau, 386ff.; assists in
welcoming William H. Seward, 398; with an amusing result,
400; involuntary candidate for Supervisorship, 403;
counsellor to Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society, 409;
intimate relations with early ranchers, 421; helps organize
Sixth District Agricultural Society, 426; on committee to
arrange patriotic celebration, 428; witnesses Chinese
massacre, 434; psychologically affected by the wool craze,
437ff.; member of committee to invite Southern Pacific
Railroad Company to build into Los Angeles, 440, 502; helps
prepare County railroad ordinances, 441; one of the founders
of the Public Library, 443; visits Vasquez in captivity,
458; travels to San Francisco by stage, 465; N. on the
future of Fort Street, 466; housewarming, 467; first meeting
with Lucky Baldwin, 474; visits Lake Tahoe, 477; advises
Juan Matías Sanchez against risking his property, 478; buys
first lot sold in Santa Monica, 480; coöperates in editing
Chamber of Commerce report for Centennial, 482; by stage and
rail to San Francisco, 496; visits Centennial Exhibition,
497; crossing Continent to New York by rail, 497; makes use
of early typewriter, 497; again in San Francisco, 498; takes
part in the opening of San Fernando Tunnel, 504; N. on
discourteous treatment of C. F. Crocker by municipal
authorities, 504; relations with Leland Stanford, 322, 506;
dealings with John E. Hollenbeck, 492; failure to appreciate
land-values, 513; sells Van Nuys Building site, 515; removes
temporarily to San Francisco, 520; President of the
Congregation, B'nai B'rith, 608; President, Temple Block
Co., 596; meets Mme. Modjeska, 495; director, Board of
Trade, 537; celebrates silver wedding, 538; entertains Dr.
Edward Lasker, 540; tours Mexico and visits New Orleans
Exposition, 546; retires from wholesale grocery business,
549; with Kaspare Cohn forms K. Cohn & Co., 549; resumes
shipping of hides and wool, 549; relations with Alessandro
Repetto, 552ff.; administrator of Repetto's estate, 553;
one of the purchasers of the Repetto _rancho_, 552, 555; a
founder of Newmark and Montebello, 555; invited to stand as
candidate for Mayor, 556; brings in Eastern coal at
fabulously low rates, 557; again tours Europe, 564; N. on
State division, 592; invests in gas-making plant, 561; in
Alaska, 602; at the Chicago Fair, 605; dissolves partnership
with Kaspare Cohn, 613; revives H. Newmark & Co., 613; on
Pioneer Society committee, 614; N.'s tribute to his brother,
J. P. Newmark, 611; builds residence on Grand Avenue, 593;
once more buys a lot at Santa Monica, 596; final visit to
Europe, 621; builds Blanchard Hall, 68; buys electric
automobiles--and soon sells them, 626; proposes monument to
S. M. White, 469; erects Gamut Club, 625; participates in a
movement to provide land for Federal Building, 630; retires
from business, 633; N.'s tribute to Lionel J. Adams, 636;
golden wedding anniversary, 636; at banquet to William H.
Taft, 639; N. on the death of his wife, 640; recollections
of family physicians, 648; breaks ground for Jewish Orphans'
Home, 643; joins in testimonial to Griffith J. Griffith,
643; speech at the half-century jubilee of M. A. Newmark &
Co., 344; receives loving cup, 344; at Santa Monica, looking
backward, vii, 649; views on longevity and health, 649;
attitude toward alcohol and tobacco, 649; pride in Los
Angeles, 651; object in writing his memoirs, ix, 477
Newmark & Co., H., wholesale grocers, establishing of the
firm, 343; monopolize trade, 345; supply Government stores,
354; agents for insurance, 280; affected by hard times, 358;
open branch office in New York, 359; trade with Arizona,
414; declared "the largest shippers," 436; attitude toward a
proposed opposition steamer, 436; assistance rendered Remi
Nadeau, 386ff.; dealers in wool, 437; purchase the Santa
Anita _rancho_, 439; the first to operate a two horse
flat-truck, 439; sale of the Santa Anita, 474; their
patronage solicited by Leland Stanford, 322, 506; twice
burglarized, 486; fight with the Southern Pacific Railroad
Co., 506; purchase of Temple Block, 510; early to employ
traveling salesmen, 521; loss in barley speculation, 534;
among the first to use the telephone, 531; give fountain to
the City, 534; removal from Arcadia Block to Amestoy
Building, Los Angeles Street, 537; dissolution of the firm,
549; revival, a decade later, 613; 111, 230, 252, 301, 375,
379, 382, 422, 425, 444, 451, 475, 478, 500, 502, 514, 521,
526, 535
Newmark, Henry M., son of Myer J. Newmark, 465
Newmark, Hulda, niece of Harris Newmark, 443
Newmark (Neumark), Johanna, sister of Harris Newmark, 7
Newmark (Neumark), Joseph, uncle of Harris Newmark, and
first to adopt the English form of the name, 122;
personality, 122; reaches New York, 122; organizes there Elm
Street and Wooster Street synagogues, 122; joins the Masons,
at Somerset, Connecticut, 122; marries Miss Rosa Levy, 122;
removes to St. Louis, 122; then to Dubuque, 122; arrives in
Los Angeles, 121ff.; brings first Chinese servant seen
here, 123, 297; establishes Los Angeles Hebrew Benevolent
Society, 122; officiates as rabbi, 122; holds first Jewish
service in Los Angeles, 122, 314; leads movement for a Los
Angeles Jewish cemetery, 122; performs ceremony at marriage
of sons and daughters, 191, 224, 290, 347, 464; member of
Newmark, Kremer & Co., 189; death of, 520; 37, 205, 228,
409, 464, 637
Newmark (Neumark, Joseph Philipp), J. P., brother of Harris
Newmark, 2; and first of family to come to California, 6;
assists father in Sweden, 3; goes to England, 3; embarks for
America, is drawn to San Francisco by the gold fever, and
settles in Los Angeles, 6; buys out Howard, 27; partner of
Jacob Rich, 19, 32; as merchant, 27, 37, 57, 73, 427;
wholesaler, 32; imports first camphine to Los Angeles, 34;
attends three-day barbecue, 157; sends for Harris, 6;
furnishing him with funds, 13; and gives him employment, 27;
interrupts an entertainment, 60; removes to San Francisco,
60; sells out and establishes credit for his brother, 128;
acts also as his business adviser, 146, 359; helps organize
Rich, Newmark & Co., 146; becomes a Mason, 203; revisits
Europe, 163; bearer of U. S. Government despatches, 163;
marries, in Germany, Fräulein Augusta Leseritz, 163; returns
from Europe, 191; member of Newmark, Kremer & Co., 189;
removes again to San Francisco, 240; activity there as
commission merchant, 240, 344, 438; forms partnership with
Isaac Lightner under title of J. P. Newmark & Co., 344;
advises Harris to remove to New York, 359; visits Lake Tahoe
and the mines of Nevada, 477; member of the delegation from
San Francisco to attend the opening of the San Fernando
tunnel, 503; visits Carlsbad, 520; returns to San Francisco,
520; journeys again to Europe, 589; and returns to Los
Angeles, 589; death of, 611; 26, 271, 444, 559, 564, 598; --
& Kremer, 237; --, Kremer & Co., 36, 104, 176, 189, 219,
235, 237; -- & Rich, 33; -- & Co., J. P., 344
Newmark, Josephine Rose, youngest daughter of Harris
Newmark, 564, 593
Newmark, Leo, son of Harris Newmark, 515
Newmark, Leo, son of J. P. Newmark, xv, 564, 598
Newmark, Marco R., son of Harris Newmark, accompanies
parents to Europe, 564; visits Alaska, 603; graduates from
the University of California and attends the University of
Berlin, 624; enters the wholesale grocery trade, 624;
friendly association with Homer Lea, 644; vii
Newmark, Matilda, daughter of Joseph Newmark, 121, 191
Newmark (Neumark), Morris A., nephew of Harris Newmark,
arrives in Los Angeles, 344; clerks for H. Newmark, later H.
Newmark & Co., 354; admitted as partner, 444; marries
Harriet, daughter of J. P. Newmark, 444; helps organize M.
A. Newmark & Co., 549; participates in their fiftieth
anniversary, and receives silver cup, 344; 443, 514, 601
Newmark & Co., M. A., successors to H. Newmark & Co., 549;
removal to Wholesale Street, 644; celebrate their fiftieth
anniversary, 343; 517, 535, 559, 600, 624, 629, 644
Newmark, Maurice H., son of Harris Newmark, sent to school
in New York and Paris, 450; partner in M. A. Newmark & Co.,
549; association with first three _fiestas_, 606, 607;
member of Executive Committee of Sound Money League, 613;
President of Associated Jobbers, 619, 635, 637; Chairman of
Supply Committee for Relief of San Francisco, 634; helps
incorporate Southwest Museum, 647; member of Executive
Committee, Stephen M. White Memorial Fund, 469; one of
Committee on Harbor Consolidation, 638; Chairman, W. C.
Mushet Campaign Committee, 639; appointed Harbor
Commissioner, 642; resigns from Commission, 642; presents
silver cup to M. A. Newmark, at half-century jubilee, 344;
v, 497, 545, 642
Newmark (Neumark), Max N., nephew of Harris Newmark, 382; --
& Edwards, 382; -- Grain Co., 382
Newmark, Myer J., son of Joseph Newmark, journeys to
California _via_ the Horn, 121; keeps diary of the voyage,
121; arrives in Los Angeles, 121; serves, later, as member
of the Coleman Vigilance Committee, San Francisco, 55;
admitted to the Bar, 249; as attorney, witnesses killing of
Dorsey by Rubottom, 144; helps organize the first public
library here, 256; partner in Howard, Butterworth & Newmark,
312; Secretary of Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, 294; City
Attorney, 46; represents H. Newmark & Co., in New York, 359;
member of H. Newmark & Co., 422, 444; indirectly associated
with the founding of Pasadena, 449; marries Miss Sophie
Cahen, 464; early purchaser of land at Santa Monica, 480;
opposes anti-railroad legislation, 489; pioneer in
advertising Los Angeles in the East, 499; retires from H.
Newmark & Co. and removes to San Francisco, 514; on
Committee, Chamber of Commerce (later becoming President),
625; instrumental in securing the Coronel Collection, 622;
in Europe, 564; returns to Los Angeles, 642; association
with Kaspare Cohn, 642; returns to San Francisco, 642; death
there, 642
Newmark (Neumark), Nathan, brother of Harris Newmark, 7
Newmark (Neumark), Philip, son of Nathan Newmark, 649
Newmark (Neumark), Philip A., nephew of Harris Newmark, 601;
-- & Co., P., 601
Newmark, Philip H., son of Harris Newmark, 515
Newmark (Neumark), Philipp, native of Neumark, West Prussia,
and father of Harris Newmark, 1, 360; sent, as a boy, to
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1; manufacturer of blacking and ink, 2;
travels in Sweden and Denmark, 2, 621; voyages to New York,
2; returns to Europe, 2; resumes enterprises in Denmark and
Scandinavia, 3ff.; takes Harris into business, 4; operates,
with son, workshops at Copenhagen and Gothenburg, 6, 7, 649;
consents to lad's departure for California, 7; warns Harris
against strangers, 8; death, 360
Newmark, Phineas, son of J. P. Newmark, 559
Newmark, Rosa, wife of Joseph Newmark, 122; removes to Los
Angeles, 121, 123; Prime mover in formation of Ladies'
Hebrew Benevolent Society, 409; death of, 482; 464, 637
Newmark, Samuel M., son of J. P. Newmark, 559; -- Bros., 559
Newmark, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Newmark and wife of
Harris Newmark, arrives here _via_ the Horn, 121; narrow
escape in school catastrophe, 224; engaged to Harris
Newmark, 103; marriage, 224; Vice-President, Ladies' Hebrew
Benevolent Society, 409; celebrates silver wedding, 538;
visits Mexico, 546; tours Europe, 564; keeps diary of the
journey, 565; revisits Europe, 621; celebrates golden
wedding, 636; death, 640; interest in orphans, 643; 106, 195
Newmark, Los Angeles County, 555
New Mexico, 282, 301, 361, 507, 542
New Orleans Exposition, 546
New Orleans Shaving Saloon, 137
Newport, 494
Newport Landing, 506
_Newport_, steamboat, 506, 507
_News, Evening_, 612, 635
_News_, Los Angeles, 283, 306, 315, 316, 317, 350, 370, 380,
420, 431, 446
News, slow transmission of, 93, 211; -- of the War, 305
_News Letter_, 339
Newspapers, first issues of, 92, 133, 156, 223, 308, 318,
388, 427, 443, 444, 450, 465, 495, 516, 530, 533, 541, 548,
557, 559, 584, 626, 642; --, first free advertising, 533;
--, from the East, 235, 256; illustrated --, 627, 642; first
seven-day issues, 557; --, during the Boom, 574ff; --,
during the Civil War, 305, 339, 371
New Town (San Pedro), 236, 290
New Vernon, 579
New Year's, early celebration of, 58, 59
New York City, 12, 13, 14, 17, 359, 497; shipment of hides
to, 331
_New York Herald_, 497
New York Mine, 475
_New York Times_, 497
Nicaragua, 14, 18, 236, 459
Nicaragua Route, 13, 18, 467, 517; --, Lake, 15
Nichols, Daniel B., 33, 384
Nichols, John Gregg, 32, 33, 35, 36, 105, 115, 205, 218,
246, 356, 364, 384, 400, 616; Mrs. --, 46
Nichols, John Gregg, Jr., 33
Nichols' Canyon, 455
Nickels, 248
_Nido, El_, 473
Niedecken, Henry, 508
Nieto, Dolores, 51
Nieto, Manuel, 180
Nietos, _rancho_, Los, 180, 214, 261, 362; town of --, 549;
-- Valley, 413, 577
Nigger Alley, 30, 31, 400, 432, 433, 510
Nordhoff, Charles, 445, 624; --, town of, 624
Nordholt, William, 65, 202, 244; Mrs. --, 202, 245
Nordlinger, Louis S., 356
Nordlinger, Melville, 356
Nordlinger, S., 356; -- & Sons, 356
_Normandie_, 564
North Beach, San Francisco, 478
North Beach, Santa Monica, 612
Northcraft, C. L., 483
Northcraft, W. H., 483; -- & Clark, 484
Norton, Myron, 45, 47, 54, 140; -- Avenue, 48
Norton, M., 72
Norton, S. B., xvi
Norway, 336, 621
_Novius cardinalis_, 544
Noyes, E. W., 349, 484
_Nuestra Señora Reyna de los Angeles, La_, 100
Nurses, scarcity of trained, 409
Nuts, 412
O
Oak Knoll, 169
Oak trees, 126
Oath of allegiance, 308, 321
Oatman girls, 218
O'Brien, Jack, 348
O'Brien, Thomas, 386
O'Campo, Francisco, 99, 100
O'Campo, Tommy, 429
Occidental College, 566
_Occidental Sketches_, 361
_Ocean_, steamer, 308
Ocean Park, 603, 627, 645
Ocean Spray, 579
Odd characters, 253, 277, 527, 528, 610
Odd Fellows Lodge No. 35, 49, 149, 355, 402, 624; -- halls,
300, 513
Oden, George N., 394
Odontological Society of Southern California, 368
Off, J. W. A., 607
Offices, 570; furnishing of --, 435, 570
Offutt, R. H., 380
Ogier, Isaac Stockton Keith, 35, 45, 53, 246; -- Street
(Lane), 54
_Ohio_, steamer, 152
Oil, 377, 379, 407, 622; -- found in residence district,
603; -- hair, 138; -- Queen, 603
Olden, W. R., 441
Old Mission, 54, 150
_Old Oaken Bucket, The_, 231
Old Settler's Society, 614
Oleander, 579
Olives and their culture, 92, 212, 302, 412, 472; -- oil,
302
Olive Street, 73, 472
Olivewood, 579
_Olla-podrida_, 118
_Ollas_, 117, 184
Olney, Mrs. C. R., 628
Olvera, Agustin, 35, 47, 99, 102, 214, 215; -- Street, 99
Olvera, Louisa (later Mrs. C. H. Forbes), 214
_Olympia_, 436
O'Melveny, H. K. S., 285, 403, 426, 441, 466, 493; Mrs. --,
403
O'Melveny, H. W., 403, 476, 578, 614, 626, 648
Omnibuses, 389, 397, 402
O'Neill, Lillian Nance, 155
_On Horseback_, 597
Ontario, 516, 579
Onteveras, Pacífico, 212
Opéra Comique, Paris, 565
Ophir Mine, 474
Orange, town of, 177, 352
Orange County, 177, 594
Orange Grove Association, 445, 448
Oranges and orange groves, 211, 212, 286, 352, 382, 391,
412, 448, 532, 576, 578; orange trees brought from
Nicaragua, 459; first navel oranges, 451, 625; device for
picking oranges, 265
Orchards, 28, 112, 162, 573, 578
Ord, E. O. C., 33, 34, 112, 336; -- Survey, 334
O'Reilly, James, 475
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 605
Oriental Restaurant, 491
Oriental Stage Co., 417
_Oriflamme_, 346
_Orizaba_, 376, 381, 397, 398, 405, 465
Orme, Henry S., 371, 423, 614
Ormsby, J. S., 130
Ormsby, W. L., 234
_Oropel_, 136
Orphans, homes for, 190, 643
Ortega, Émile C., 87
Ortiz, Miguel, 272
Osborn, John, 373
Osborn, William, 386, 387
Osborne, H. Z., 543, 607
Osburn, William B., 94, 107, 108, 109, 138, 155, 192, 194
Osgoodby, George, 590
Ostriches, 547; the Ostrich Farm, 547
Otaheite, 254
_Othello_, 588
Otis, Harrison Gray, 468, 533, 555, 556, 557, 589, 607, 616,
626; Mrs. --, 617
Otter hunting, 170
_Our Italy_, 597
_Out of Doors California and Oregon_, 476
"Out of town," 32, 105
_Out West Magazine_, 542, 646
Overland Mail, 259, 301, 375; -- Co., 234; -- Route, 234,
242, 271, 294; -- staging, 91, 234, 267
Overman & Caledonia mines, 477
Overstreet, Dr., 107
Owens, Bob, 138; Mrs. (Aunt Winnie), 138
Owens Lake, cleansing properties of, 387
Owens, Madison T., 607
Owens River and country, 375, 385ff.; -- Aqueduct, 50, 545;
-- Mines, 322, 385ff.; -- Valley, 440
Oxarart, Gaston, 310; -- Block, 513
Oxnard, Henry T., 598; --, town of, 599
Oxnard, Robert, 598
Ox-teams, 201, 233
Oyharzabel, Domingo, 549
Oysters, 279
P
_Pacific_, 336, 346, 465
Pacific & Atlantic Telegraph Co., 283
Pacific Coast compared to other countries, 398
Pacific Electric Building, 620
Pacific Light and Power Co., 515
Pacific Mail Steamship Co., 465, 486
Pacific Railway Expedition, 364; --'s view of Los Angeles,
364
Packard, Albert, 168
Packard, T. T., 500
Packet Service, Coast, 152, 153, 237
Pack-trains, 272
Padilla, Juan N., 32, 244; -- Building, 57
_Padres_ (see Mission Fathers)
_Paisano_, 159
Palace Saloon, 455
Palacio, El, 223
Palmas, Dos, 414
Palmer, Joseph C., 272
Palomares, Ygnácio, 174, 179; --, town of, 578
Palos Verdes _rancho_, 71, 182, 357, 581
Panamá Canal, 236, 651; -- Route and travel, 13, 46, 142,
305, 315, 359, 532, 623; -- hat, 158, 159; --, Kern County,
453
Panamint, 387, 479
_Pan de huevos_, 134
Panic following prosperity, 478
_Panocha_, 134
Paper, local manufacture of, 384
Pardee, George C., 631
Paris, 67, 360, 450, 564; --, Commune, 491; --, Exposition,
1855, 164; --, Exposition, 1867, 360
Paris Exposition Circus, 381
Parish, E. C., 92
_Parisian_, 381
Parker House, San Francisco, 22
Parker, E. S., 512
Parkman, Francis, xii
Parks, 97, 388, 417, 539, 557, 614, 643
Parnell mines, 475
Parris, Willis, 483
Parrott, Dr., 200
Parson, A. C., 630
Parson, A. M., 630
Pasadena, 178, 238, 316, 337, 445, 557, 576, 578, 579, 585,
586, 592, 599, 601, 613; --, Colony and Settlement, 50, 532;
--, origin of name, 448; South --, 586; -- Railroad, 563
Paso de Águila, El, 82
Paso de Robles, 329, 496
Paso, El, 546
Passports, 163, 315
_Pastores, Los_, 102
Pastrymen, 288
Patagonia Copper Mining Co., 276
Patents to lands, 146, 166, 172, 173, 174, 179, 182, 244,
275, 509
_Patios_, 113, 135
Patrick, M. S., 472
Pattee, Frank A., 646
Patterson, W. C., 607, 626
Patti, Adelina, 590, 607
Patton, George S. and Mrs., 363
Patton, George S., Jr., 363, 568; Mrs. --, 363
Patton, Harry, 612
Paul, C. T., 516
Paulding, Joseph, 261
Pavements, 519, 561, 584
Pawnbrokers, 221
Payne, Henry T., 465, 499, 557
Paynter, J. W., 427
Peach and honey, 40
_Peachbrand_, chewing tobacco, 253
Pearl Street, 231, 362, 461, 559
Pease, 126
Pease, Niles, 607, 634
Peck, George H., 452, 453
_Pedro_, game of, 230
Pedro, the Indian, 124
Peel. B. L., 425, 436; -- & Co., B. L., 425
Pekin Curio Store, 232
Pellissier, Germain, 362
Penelon, Henri, 82, 293
Pennies, 248, 511
Peoples, Superintendent, 415
People's Store, 530
Pepper trees, 97, 291
Pepys, Samuel xi; -- Diary, xiii
Perry, Everett R., 639
_Perry, Lewis_, 237, 276
Perry, Mamie (Perry-Davis, later Mrs. Modini Wood), 528, 529
Perry, W. H., 66, 81, 162, 317, 349, 366, 428, 521, 528,
543, 636; Mrs. --, 66, 162, 528; -- & Co., 81; -- &
Woodworth, 81, 82, 127, 412
Persimmon tree, 163
Peru, 71, 120, 162, 389, 542
_Pescadero_, 127
Pesthouse, 118
Peter, Father, 553
Petroleum, 459
Petsch, A., 607
Peyton, Valentine, 604
Pflugardt, George W., 206
Phæton, first here, 511
Phelps, E. C., 405
Philadelphia, 497; -- Brewery, 197, 500; --, Centennial at,
497; --Oil Co., 170; -- & California Oil Co., 302
Philbin, John, 248, 249
"Philip's Best" beer, 231
Philippines, 616
Philippi, Jake, 230
Phillips, Louis, 89, 531; -- Block, 115, 530; 161, 330, 421;
Mrs. --, 89
Photographers, 82, 293, 364, 465; wet-plate --, 365
Physical culture, first, 273
Physicians, 26, 58, 92, 94, 99, 106, 107ff., 193, 227, 237,
245, 322, 389, 423, 548, 589, 593, 598, 641, 648
Pianos, 376
_Pianos and their Makers_, 628
Picayune, 192
Picher, Anna B., 622, 628
Picnics, 132, 397, 401, 429
Pico, Andrés, 38, 92, 99, 135, 172, 173, 178, 179, 180, 190,
208, 214, 381, 400, 441, 488, 493; -- ranches, 179
Pico, António María, 297
Pico, Jesus, 178
Pico, Pio, 27, 98, 99, 102, 160, 170, 173, 177, 179, 180,
293, 294, 297, 332, 400, 471, 531, 608; -- Crossing, 180; --
Heights, 609; --House, 98, 180, 186, 396, 431, 469, 488,
491, 500, 516, 518; --ranches, 180; -- Spring, 346; --
Street, 73, 125
Pico, Ysidora, 173
Pierce, Edward T., 532
Pierce, Franklin, 65, 121
Pierce, H. A., 121
Pierce, N. & Co., 152
Pigeon messengers, 430
Pig lead, 387
Pike, George H., 590
_Pilgrim_, brig, 226
_Pilon_, 77
_Pinafore_, 547
Pinikahti, 277, 278
Pinney Block, 192
_Pinole_, 134
Pintoresca, 586
Pioneer Oil Co., 346
Pioneer Race Course, 303
Pioneers, banquet to, 630; neglected duty of --, vii; early
proposed society of --, 561; -- first as tourists, 353
Pioneers of Southern California, Los Angeles County, 239,
614
Pipes, clay and brier, 253
Pipes, iron, 365, 377, 384, 445; -- wooden, 350, 366
Pitch-roofs, 114
Piteå, 4
Pi-Utes, 275
Pixley, Frank, 525
Plains, continental, 71, 77, 82, 304, 403; local
significance of, 276
Planters Hotel, Anaheim, 643
Plater, John E., 467, 607
Playa del Rey, 125, 459, 490
Plaza, 30, 31, 47, 66, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 106, 107, 112,
115, 149, 210, 224, 232, 254, 262, 272, 281, 285, 294, 296,
300, 381, 385, 388, 417, 418, 461, 488, 511, 518, 535, 557;
-- water tank, 211, 388, 418
Plaza Church, 82, 97, 100, 101, 112, 114, 258, 293, 628; --,
repairing of, 293
Plaza Hotel, San Juan Bautista, 270
Plaza, San Francisco, 21, 98
Pleasant Valley, 496
Pleasants, J. E., 106, 126, 127, 171, 326, 413, 494
Ploennies, Otto von, 499
Plows, iron and steel, 357
Plumbers' tools, brought from San Francisco, 384
Plunger, luck of a, 333
_Pocahontas_, gunboat, 350
Poe, Edgar Allan, 101
Poker playing, 55, 154
Polaski, Isidor, 70
Polaski, Louis, 70; -- & Goodwin, 70; -- & Sons, 70
Polaski, Myer L., 70
Polaski, Samuel, 70; -- Bros., 70
Polhamus, A. A., 384, 393
Police, first chief of, 510; lack of --, 333; poor --
protection, 487
Politeness, accident due to excessive, 419
Political celebrations, 268; -- gatherings, 40, 282, 511
Pollitz, Edward, 230
Pollock, merchant, 70; -- & Goodwin, 70
Polonia, 253
Pomegranates, 126
Pomona, 330, 576; -- Valley, 578
Pond, Edward B., 598
Ponet, Victor, 382
Pony Express, 245, 264, 291, 294, 373
Population of Los Angeles, 25, 266, 271, 528, 567
Porches, 113
_Porcupine_, 57
Portable houses, 203
Port Ballona, 579; -- Harford, 346; -- Los Angeles, 468; --
San Carlos, 16; -- San Luis, 152
Porter, David Dixon, 222
Porter, F. B., 459
Porter, George K., 459
Porter, murder of, 35
Porterfield, W. H., 610
Portius, Dr., 599
Portland, Oregon, 373
Portolá, Gaspar de, 627
Portugal, Adolph, 244, 248, 311, 346
Portuguese Bend, 581
_Posse_, Sheriff's, 206, 348, 455, 457, 471; -- _comitatus_,
324, 433
Postage stamps, sale of, 431; --, scarcity of, 410
Post, delay of, 93, 147, 264
Postmasters, remuneration of early, 380, 449
Post Office, 66, 94, 231, 291, 349, 354, 372, 380, 410, 514,
560, 604, 630
Potatoes, 331
Potomac Block, 115
Potrero Grande, 181
Potter, Nehemiah A., 203, 218, 246; -- & Co., 219
Potter, O. W., 405
Potts, J. Wesley, 61, 126
Poulterer, De Ro & Eldridge, 281
Pound Cake Hill, 301, 374, 452
Powers, Ethel, 645
Powers, L. M., 634
Prager, Charles, 104, 180, 383
Prager, Sam, 104, 105, 314, 383
Prairie schooners, 201, 345, 414
Prentice, B. H., xvi
Presbyterians, 566
Prescott, 415, 416
President of the United States, gift to, 219
Prentiss, Samuel, 238
Preuss, Edward, 409; Mrs. --, 39; -- & Pironi, 363
Prévost, Louis, 390
Price, Burr, xvi
Prices of commodities, early, 345
Prickly pear, 126
_Pride of the Sea_, clipper-brig, 237
Pridham, George, 405, 481
Pridham, R. W., 606, 607, 611
Pridham, William, 106, 373, 374, 481; Mrs. --, 373; --
Block, 192
Principal, Calle, 31
Prisoners on public works, 286
Pro-Cathedral, Episcopal, 301
Processions, 101, 254, 296, 338, 442, 499, 528, 529, 606
_Progrès, le_, 541
Progressive Party, 639, 642
Prohibition, convention, 13; first -- community, 340
Promontory Point, Utah, 388
Property, low valuations of, 37, 220, 379, 572
Protestants and the Protestant Church, 102, 103, 208, 246,
313, 314, 516
_Providencia_, locomotive, 592
Providencia _rancho_, 74, 578
Provincial life in the late sixties, 377
Prudhomme (Prudhon), L. Victor, 62, 427
Pryor, Charles, 293
Pryor, Lottie, 293
Pryor (Prior), Nathaniel (Miguel N.), 292, 293; Mrs. --,
first wife, 293; Mrs. --, second wife, 293
Pryor, Nathaniel, Jr., 293
Pryor, Pablo, 293
Pueblo-like life of the early sixties, 266
Puente, la, 475, 494, 520; -- Creek, 471; -- Mills, 470; --
oil, 172, 377; -- _rancho_, 87, 172, 242, 377
Puerto San Miguel, Barcelona, 490
Pursuits, humble, 79
Pyle, B. W., 235, 236
Q
Quakers, 449, 576
Quartermaster, U. S. A., 246, 265, 297
Queen City, proposed town of, 318
Queen & Gard, 370
_Queen of the Pacific_, steamship, 602
Quimby, C. H., xvi
Quinces, 126
R
Race track, 462
Raffles, 385
Raho, Padre Blas, 293
Railroads, 331, 352, 363, 370, 373, 380, 402, 423, 430, 440,
452, 486, 507, 556, 562, 581, 583, 604, 614, 630; accidents,
536, 583; affected by steamers, 404; Railroad Commission,
620; excursions, 393, 394, 404, 430, 442, 485, 525; first
fight against the -- companies, 506, 507; locomotives, 376,
380, 397, 402; first one built here, 592; war between --s,
556, 570; San Pedro -- (see Los Angeles & San Pedro R. R.);
opposition to --s, 354, 441; private cars, 487; Seward's
prediction as to --s, 399
Raimond, R. E., 283
Rainfall, effect and importance of, 34, 215, 309, 329, 360,
380; rains, 241, 289, 328, 329, 487, 541
Rains, Fannie V., 617
Rains, John, 197, 302, 326, 348, 617; Mrs. --, 168
Raisins, 412
Ralphs, George A., 550; Mrs. --, 550; -- & Francis Grocery,
550; --Grocery Co., 550
Ralston, W. C., 477, 478
Ramirez, Andrés, 63
Ramirez, B. F., 443
Ramirez, Francisco P., 156, 333, 493
Ramirez, town of, 575
_Ramona_, 41, 102, 445, 520, 531
_Rancherias_, 176, 520
Ranch stores, 175
_Ranchito_, 98, 470
_Ranchos_ and _rancheros_, 84, 110, 166ff., 175, 181, 214,
242, 313, 329, 332, 340, 344, 421; ranch fences, 167, 274;
Spanish ranch houses, 167
_Ranger, Reminiscences of a_, 58
Rangers, 35, 53, 58, 74, 83, 99, 139, 147, 207, 221
Rankin, Collector, 306
Rapp, William, 480
Rate war, 556, 557
Rattlesnakes, 415
Rattlesnake Island, 174, 268, 426, 601
Ravenna, Manuel, 233, 234, 475
Ravenna, town of, 475
Rawson, A. M., 619
Raymond, 576, 578, 579; -- Hotel, 576, 586
Real Castillo, 424
_Real Estate Advertiser_, 370
Real estate, 232, 332, 333, 362, 401, 513, 522, 569ff.,
583; leap frog with --, 536; sudden advances in --, 570
Realty agents, first, 401
_Reata_, 34, 85, 92, 150, 333
Reaume, Captain, 381
Rebbick, Lydia, 250
_Rebozos_, 66, 158
_Record, Los Angeles_, 610
Records, Edward, 557
Redlands, 176, 591
Redondo, boom at, 631, 632; -- Salt Works, 133, 492
Red Rock, 387
Redwood, 230
Reed, Henry, 316
Reed, maniac, 220
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 614
Reese, Michael, 329, 520
Refreshments, 184
Refrigerator cars, 623
Registration of 1869 voters, 401
Reid, Hugo, 89, 107; Mrs. --, 165; --, library of, 47
Reid, Templeton, 130
Religious services held in courts, 314, 339
Rendall, Stephen A., 364
Repetto, Alessandro, 421, 454, 458, 552ff.; -- _rancho_,
450, 552, 555; --'s brother, 553ff.
_Republican, Evening_, 495, 533
Republicans, 91, 285, 296, 323, 639; "black" --, 240
Requena, Manuel, 38, 105, 190, 219, 253; -- Street, 32, 38
Restaurant life, early, 27, 369, 490; outdoor restaurants,
340
Reward unpaid by L. A. County, 425
Reyes, Pablo, 202
Reyes, Ysidro, 202
Reynolds, C. C., 619, 635, 637
Reynolds, J. J., 389, 397, 417, 429
Rhea, Mlle., 543
Rheim, Philip (Felipe), 58, 59, 64
Rice, 329
Rice, George D., 612
Rice, Mr., 502
Rich, B. B., xvi
Rich, Jacob, 19, 21, 23, 24, 32, 60, 61, 118, 189; Mrs. --,
first Jewess to settle here, 60, 61, 104; -- Bros., 12; -- &
Laventhal, 189; --, Newmark & Co., 146
Richards, C. N. & Co., 133
Richland, 352
Rico, Mr. and Mrs., 181
Riis, Jacob A., 642
Riley, Frank, 262
Rinaldi, C. R., 377
Rincon de los Bueyes, 460
Rincon _rancho_, 74
Rio Colorado, U. S. Surveying Expedition to, 183
Rio Grande, 222, 232
_Rise and Fall of the Mustache, The_, 588
Ritchie, William, 320
Rivara, Dominico, 550
Rivera, 180, 577
Riverside, 175, 391, 451
River Station, 531
Robarts, John, 535, 554ff.
Robert, Dent H., 626
Robidoux Hill, 175
Robidoux, Louis, 64, 174, 176, 177, 374, 391; Señora --,
175; --Mount, 175; -- _rancho_, 391; --, spelling of name,
176
Robinson, Edward I., xvi
Robinson, J. C., 594, 595
Robinson, J. W., 536; -- Co., 513; -- Dry Goods Co., 536
Robinson, W. W., 587
Rocha, A. J., 37
Rocha, Jacinto, 174
Rock-fish, 127
Rocky Mountain Circus, Bartholomew's, 262
Rodeos, 182, 242
Rodgers, Walter E., 455
Roeder, Louis, 153, 154, 239, 267; -- Block, 267
Rogers, Ralph, 568
Rojo, Manuel Clemente, 53, 54, 56
Roller-skating, 426
Roman Catholics (see under Catholics)
Rome, 398
Romero, Guadalupe, 226
Roofs, of tar, 114; --, tiled, 114; --, weighted with
stones, 336
Roosevelt, Theodore, 625, 629
Roosters, game, 162
Rosa, José de la, 93
Rose, Annie Wilhelmina, 403
Rose, L. J., 43, 200, 285, 286, 403, 421, 426, 427, 439,
441, 472, 483, 578, 584, 585, 589, 592; Mrs. (Amanda) --,
578; Rose Meade, 592
Rose, Truman H., 389, 390, 419, 452; Mrs. --, 390
Rosecrans, William Starke, 33, 382, 397; --, town of, 579
Rosedale, 609; -- Cemetery, 548, 567
Rose Tournament at Pasadena, first, 592
Roses, imported from the East, 139
Ross, Erskine Mayo, 230, 488, 565, 607
Ross, W. G., 150
Round House, 41, 64, 126, 192, 259, 272, 273, 428, 499, 522,
585; --George, 193, 463
Rouse, W. J., xvi
Row, The, 61, 351
Rowan, George D., 510
Rowan, James, 191
Rowan, P. D., 511
Rowan, R. A., 511; -- & Co., 511
Rowan, Thomas E., 191, 269, 383, 405, 446, 552, 606; Mrs.
--, 191; --Avenue, 191; -- Street, 191
Rowland, John, 87, 91, 106, 172, 211, 421, 494; Mrs. --, 91
Rowland, Nieves, 172
Rowland, William (Billy), 172, 377, 454, 455, 458, 532
Royere, Paul P., xii
Rúbio, José de, 23, 201, 202; Señora --, 202, 609; Rúbio's,
202
Rubottom, Ezekiel, 91, 144
Rubottom, William (Uncle Billy), 91, 144
Rugby School, 422
Rule, Ferdinand K., 597, 607, 625
Rumph, John and Frau, 402
Russ Garden, San Francisco, 275
_Russia_, steamship, 360
Ryan, Andrew W., 495
Ryan, F. G., 603
Rydall, E. H., 547
S
Sabichi, Frank, 171, 607
Sabichi, Josefa Franco, 171
Sabichi, Mateo, 171
Sabine Pass, 350
Sachs & Co., L. & M., 381
Sackett & Morgan, 346
Sackett, Russell, 36
Sackville-West, Lord, 590
Sacramento, 260, 389, 403, 453, 496, 562
Saddle-horses, 157
Saddles and saddlery, 74, 82, 85, 110, 111, 132, 157, 159,
291, 383, 473, 528
Saeger, J., 619
Safes, for valuables and money, 129, 343, 487
_Saginaw_, steamer, 341
Sailing vessels, 237, 290, 345; from and to the Atlantic,
151, 331. (See also under Cape Horn)
Sainsevain, Jean Louis, 132, 163, 197, 198, 239, 254, 265,
273, 300, 350, 365, 366, 369, 592; -- Bros., 199; -- Street,
199; -- Vineyard, 198
Sainsevain, Louis, xvi
Sainsevain, Michel, 199
Sainsevain, Paul, 199
Sainsevain, Pierre, 198, 199, 265
St. Athanasius Church, 301
St. Charles Hotel, 469, 514
St. Elmo Hotel, 252, 469, 525, 613
St. George d'Oléron, France, 281
St. James, 579
St. Louis, 416
St. Paul's School, 340
St. Valentine's Day, 46, 296
St. Vincent's College, 232, 341
Salaberri, Juan, 549; -- & Co., J., 549
Salandie, Mme., 78
Salesmen, traveling, 521
Salinas City, 497
Saloons, 21, 29, 30, 31, 39, 59, 64, 134, 149, 209, 230,
347, 405, 480, 570; --, synonym for shops, 137, 396
Salsido, Vicente, 114
Salt Lake City, 66, 74, 155, 187, 233, 248, 304, 345, 351,
498; --, Great, 187; --, trade with, 187, 290
Salt Lake Express, Great, 155
Salt Lake Route, 82
Salt, Liverpool, 557
Samsbury, Stephen, 424
San António _rancho_, 174, 220, 263
San Bernardino, 71, 74, 88, 90, 150, 155, 165, 187, 198,
207, 233, 234, 242, 287, 312, 313, 323, 337, 366, 411, 414,
415, 549; -- County, 87, 281, 426
San Bernardino Mountains, 350, 370; --, ice from, 191, 247,
370
San Bernardino _rancho_, 263
San Buenaventura, 153, 209, 246, 298, 395, 496
San Carlos, Port, 16
San Clemente Island, 216
San Diego, 28, 67, 71, 152, 160, 207, 397, 398, 411, 418,
472, 589, 633; --, Old Town, 153, 367; -- County, 426, 531
San Diego, 520, 589, 633
San Diego & Gila River Railroad, 382
San Dimas, 578, 579
San Feliciano Cañon, 95
San Fernando, 386, 459, 496, 516, 579; -- Farm Association,
381
San Fernando Mission, 92, 120, 196, 459
San Fernando Mountains, 321, 323, 385, 459, 502
San Fernando placers, 313
San Fernando ranches, 179, 180, 381, 459
San Fernando Street, 63, 160, 493; -- railroad station, 211
San Fernando tunnel, 323, 386, 459, 496, 502; --, declared
impossible, 503; --, inauguration of, 504
San Fernando Valley, 275, 531; -- and bears, 447
San Francisco, 19ff., 39, 71, 73, 120, 152, 153, 160, 199,
211, 216, 233, 240, 242, 260, 283, 284, 294, 296, 322, 325,
359, 397, 401, 411, 417, 453, 497, 504; -- compared with Los
Angeles, 582; --, dependence of Los Angeles on, 73, 152,
305, 311, 313, 332, 384, 405, 406, 410, 438; theatrical
talent from --, 286, 381, 422; -- earthquake and fire, 633
ff., 636; relief furnished -- by Los Angeles, 634; --, first
three-story building there, 610; -- Grand Opera House, 560;
lead shipped to --, 388; -- Dock & Wharf Co., 269; --
_rancho_, 40, 120; --& San José Valley Railroad, 393; -- as
a standard of comparison, 491
San Francisquito Cañon, 95; -- Ranch, 170, 174
San Gabriel, 50, 54, 71, 87, 89, 90, 106, 107, 126, 161,
165, 199, 208, 376, 384, 386, 579; -- Cañon, 95; locomotive,
376
San Gabriel Electric Co., 515
San Gabriel Mission, 55, 88, 102, 171, 199, 200, 255, 286,
493, 501
San Gabriel Mountains, 179
San Gabriel placers, 313
San Gabriel River, 91, 180, 257, 471; New --, 406
San Gabriel, sheep at, 216
San Gabriel Valley, 90, 91, 107, 168, 374, 531, 576
San Gabriel Wine Co., 302
San Jacinto and Valley, 374, 620
San Joaquín Ranch, 181, 206
San Joaquín Valley, 440; -- rate case, 619, 620
San José, 153, 234, 357, 453, 458, 497
San José _rancho_, 144, 174, 178, 179, 476
San Juan Bautista, 270
San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana, 166
San Juan Capistrano, 157, 181; Don San Juan and Don San Juan
Capistrano, 173; -- Mission, 92, 206, 207, 254, 326
San Juan de Fuca, 346
San Juan del Norte, 14, 15, 18
San Juan del Sur, 16, 17, 18
San Juan River, 15
San Luis Obispo, 22, 48, 153, 178, 188, 246, 496; -- County,
246, 447
_San Luis_, 465
San Pasqual _rancho_, 36, 178, 237, 316, 346, 412, 448
San Pedro, 22, 23, 24, 27, 48, 68, 74, 127, 152, 155, 156,
170, 173, 188, 197, 199, 202, 205, 227, 236, 245, 250, 274,
276, 290, 301, 302, 306, 308, 346, 359, 380, 395, 404, 424,
427, 460, 468, 522, 637, 638
San Pedro Harbor, 174, 268, 290, 320, 404, 426, 450, 468,
581, 617, 618; -- fight, 617
San Pedro, journey by foot from, 68, 149
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, 341, 535, 630
San Pedro, New, 236, 250, 290, 302, 307, 317, 321
San Pedro New Town, 236, 290, 307
San Pedro Railroad (see under Los Angeles)
San Pedro, _rancho de_, 173, 340
San Pedro Street, 25, 160, 200, 202, 335, 459; -- Railway,
487, 488
San Pedro Wharf, 568
San Quentin Prison, 206, 326
San Rafael Ranch, 178, 214; -- Heights, 646
San Timoteo Cañon, 591
San Vicente _rancho_, 143, 181, 479, 586
Sanchez, Francisco, 181
Sanchez Hall, 99
Sanchez, Juan Matías, 181, 421, 478
Sanchez, Pedro, 183
Sanchez, Tomás A., 43, 99, 275, 324, 326, 344
Sanchez, Vicente, 99, 114, 294; -- Street, 99, 293
_Sandía_, 126
Sandwich Islands, 93, 156, 320, 390
Sandy Hook, 12
Sanford, E. M., 362, 403
Sanford, John, 327
Sanford, Rebecca, 327
Sanford, W. T. B., 105, 187, 320, 327; Mrs. --, 320
Sanford, Mr., 217
Sangiovanni, A. Bergamo, 528
Sanitary Commission, U. S., and San Francisco 325; -- and
Los Angeles, 326
Sanitation, primitive, 119
Sansome Street, San Francisco, 22
Santa Ana, 166, 177, 401, 576, 594; -- River, 212, 348, 391,
406; --, new channel, 541
Santa Anita, 578; -- Mining Co., 241; -- placers, 313; --
_rancho_, 170, 244, 439, 449, 474, 526
Santa Bárbara, 22, 48, 108, 152, 153, 244, 246, 399, 411,
436, 496, 583; -- Channel, 216; -- County, 108, 426; --,
road to, 246
Santa Catalina Island, 15, 89, 216, 238, 318, 333, 407, 430,
522, 568, 624; 1859 excursion to --, 250ff.; proposed
harbor of --, 581; --Co., 568
Santa Clara River, 40
Santa Cruz Island, 216
Santa Cruz, Mariano G., 162, 458, 549
Santa Fé Railroad (see Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé)
Santa Fé, town of, 63, 83, 187
Santa Gertrudis _rancho_, 180, 340, 362
Santa Margarita _rancho_, 173, 180, 332, 531
Santa Monica, 231, 429, 460, 465, 466, 468, 479ff., 485
ff., 490, 568, 569, 580, 581, 603, 621; advertising --, 486,
580; sale of first lots at --, 479, 480; gravity railroad,
569; opposition of Southern Pacific Railroad to --, 521; --
Cañon, 401, 429; -- hotels, 479, 488, 568; -- Land Co., 486,
488, 586; --, South, 488
_Santa Monica_, palace car, 487
Santiago Cañon, 127, 207, 494
_Sarah Gamp_, 250
Saratoga mineral waters, 363
_Sarco_, race horse, 160
Sartori, Joseph F., 143
Saunders & Co., J. B., 371
Sausal Redondo, 382
_Savannah_, war-ship, 182
Savarie J., 527
Savarots, J. B., 549
Sawmill, first, 81
Sawtelle, 586
Saxe, H. K., 355
Saxon, Thomas A., 501
Scale, fluted, 544
Schaeffer, Henry C. G., 147, 299
Scheller, L. C., 619, 635, 637
Schieck, Dan and Mrs., 117
Schieffelin, Charles L., 396
Schiff, Ludwig, xvi
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich, 119
Schlesinger, Herman, 75, 177; -- & Sherwinsky, 76, 177
Schlesinger, Jacob, 350, 471
Schlesinger, Louis, 320, 329
Schlesinger, Moritz, 75, 76, 350
Schliemann, Heinrich, 20
Schloss, Benjamin, 290
Schmitt, H., 491
Schneider, J. M., 536, 638
Scholle Bros., 381
_School for Scandal_, 543
School teachers, 163, 402
Schools, 54, 105ff., 156, 190, 211, 262, 308, 321, 341,
354, 355, 356, 390, 419, 453, 494, 526, 533, 547, 610, 625,
626, 642; --, lack of public money for, 257; -- closed for
want of money, 211; dirty --, 262; private --, 106, 225,
257, 341, 494, 563, 622; -- and sectarianism, 269; sewing in
--, 547. (See also under Teachers)
Schooners, coastwise freight, 65, 152, 170, 237, 276, 290,
331
Schreiber, Emanuel, 608
Schreiber, W. G., 607
Schulze, A. W., 303
Schumacher, Frank G., 39
Schumacher, John, 39, 40, 64, 85, 200, 356, 376, 419, 500;
Mrs. --, 39, 40; -- Building, 39, 40
Schumacher, John, Jr., 39, 607
Schurz, Carl, 406
Schwabenverein, 584
Schwarz, Louis, 230
Schwed, Max, 549
Sciscisch, Lucas, 550
Scott Exclusion Act, 468
Scott, Frankie, 355
Scott, Hattie, 355
Scott, Jonathan R., 45, 46, 53, 87, 139, 176, 209, 355, 356;
Mrs. --, 46
Scott, J. R., Jr., 46
Scott, J. W., 568
Scott, Joseph, 469, 605, 626, 638, 647
Scott, P. M., 587
Scott & Co., E. L., 153
Scotti, 553ff.
Scripps, E. W., 610
Scully, Thomas J., 610
_Sea Bird_, steamer, 152, 181, 204, 205
Seabury, Mr., 519
Sea-captains, 10, 11, 12, 22, 46, 65, 66, 121, 152, 153,
154, 226, 251, 276, 308, 311, 312, 320, 352, 359; brutality
of --, 352
_Sea Eagle_, brig, 610
Search, P. W., 607
Searles, Moses, 94
_Sea Serpent_, schooner, 152
Seattle, 602
Second Street, 419, 477, 518, 563, 570
Security of property on the desert, 387
Security Trust and Savings Bank, 358, 631
Sedgwick, Thomas, 397
Seeley, Thomas W., 154, 312, 320
Seligman, Carl, 517, 549
_Semi-Tropical California_, 361
_Semi-Weekly Southern News_ (see under _News_)
_Senator_, steamer, 153, 154, 210, 264, 285, 290, 300, 306,
312, 320, 326, 336, 465
Sentous, Jean, 78; -- Street, 78
Sentous, Louis, 78
Sentous, Louis, Jr., 78
Sepúlveda, Andrónico, 181
Sepúlveda, Ascención, 181, 309
Sepúlveda, Bernabé, 181
Sepúlveda, Diego, 87, 181
Sepúlveda, Dolores, 181
Sepúlveda, Fernando, 181, 262
Sepúlveda, Francisca Ábila, 309
Sepúlveda, Francisca, 100, 181
Sepúlveda, J., 120
Sepúlveda, Joaquín, 181
Sepúlveda, José Andrés, 57, 97, 104, 160, 181, 206, 210,
309; Señora --, 160; -- Avenue, 57
Sepúlveda, José del Carmen, 181
Sepúlveda, José Loreto, 71, 181
Sepúlveda, Juan, 35, 181
Sepúlveda, Juan María, 181
Sepúlveda Landing, 202
Sepúlveda, Maurício, 181
Sepúlveda, Miguel, 181
Sepúlveda, Petra Pilar, 71
Sepúlveda, Ramona, 181
Sepúlveda, R. D., xvi
Sepúlveda, Tomása, 181
Sepúlveda, Tranquilina, 181
Sepúlveda, Ygnácio, 57, 181, 314, 420, 424, 443, 489, 519,
546; Mrs. --, 546
Sequoya League, 542
_Serapes_, 66, 158
Serenades, 184, 467
Serra, Junípero, 88, 627
Serrano, José, 199
Servants, Chinese, 123; Indian --, 124; --, San Francisco
agency for, 313
Seventh Infantry Band, 579
Seventh Street, 472, 535
Severance, Caroline, 473, 566
Severy, Calvin Luther, xvi
Severy, Luther, 549
Seward, Frederick and Mrs., 397
Seward, William Henry, 49, 339, 397ff., 440
Sewers, 265, 469, 472
Sexton, Daniel, 254
Seymour, (Johnson) & Co., 483
Shankland, J. H., 476
Shark hunting, 268, 308
Shasta, proposed State of, 241
Shatto, George R., 568; -- Street, 568
Shaw, Dr. and Mrs., 459
Shaw, Frederick Merrill, 610
Sheep, 167, 216, 218, 220, 310, 322, 332, 362, 374, 381,
419, 437, 445, 507; -- shearing, 362; --, bet on races, 160;
-- wash, 252
Sherman, John, 547
Sherman, M. H., 612
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 17, 18, 20, 21, 55, 107, 255, 328
Sherman, town of, 382
Sherwinsky, Tobias, 75, 177
Sheward, J. T., 607
Shields, James, 271
Shiloh, Battle of, 295, 316
Shoes and shoemakers, 86, 159, 213
Shoe-String strip, the, 637
Shoo-Fly Landing, 459
Shooting alleys, 402
Shorb, J. de Barth, 169, 302, 445, 483; Mrs. --, 302; --
Station, 169, 302
Shore, John W., 39
Shore, William H., 246
Shrimps, 446
Shrine Auditorium, 639
Shrubbery, imported from the East, 139
Sichel, Julius, 72
Sichel, Parisian oculist, 164
Sichel, Philip, 290
Sichel Street, 290
Sidewalks, 20, 34, 211, 226, 229, 287, 343, 518
Side-wheelers, 153
Siemens, Judge, 539
Sierra Madre and Colony, 168, 519, 526, 563, 595; --
Mountains, 526
_Sierra Nevada_, 346
Sigel, Franz, 406
Signal Hill, 374
Signoret, Felix, 137, 420; -- Building, 252, 420
Signs, early, 80, 111; --, painters of, 94
Silent, Charles, 596, 615
Silent, Edward D., 596, 607
Silk industry, 390; -- worms, 391
Silver, Herman, 594, 595
Silver, supply of in the fifties, 129; -- coins, first from
San Francisco mint, 247
Simi Pass, 208
Simmie, J. W., 568
Simmons, John, 335, 439
Simmons, Mrs., nurse, 250
Simpkins, Charles H., 489
Simpson, Frank, 638
Sims, Columbus, 51, 55, 246, 296, 303
Sinsabaugh, H., 552
Sisson, Wallace & Co., 482
Sisters' Hospital, 100, 233, 553
Sisters of Charity, 100, 189, 190, 203; Sister Ana, 190,
210; --Angela, 190; -- Clara, 190; -- Francisca, 190; --
María Corzina, 190; -- María Scholastica, 190
Sitka, 602
"Sixteen to One," 613
Sixth District Agricultural Association, 640
Sixth Street, 73, 231, 375, 461, 515
_Skat_, 230
Skinner & Small, 467
Sketchley, Dr., 547
Skull Valley, 415
Slaney Bros., 86
Slaughter, F. N., 426
Slauson, James S., 546
Slauson, Jonathan S., 467, 476, 546, 561, 578, 625, 626
Slotterbeck, Henry, 230
Slugs, gold, 130, 160; --, thrown to actors, 186
Small, C. M., 405
Smallpox, 118, 202, 322, 329, 508
Smeltzer, D. E., 125
Smiley, Albert K., 591
Smiley, Alfred H., 591; -- Heights, 591
Smith, Aaron, 446
Smith, Charles W., 614
Smith, D. K., 455, 457
Smith, Emily R., xvi
Smith, George, 279
Smith, George A., 639
Smith, George H., 351, 363, 443, 521; Mrs. --, 363
Smith, Josephine Rosanna, 411
Smith, Orin, 268
Smith, William A., 118
Smith & McPhee, 567
Smith & Walter, 377
Smoking, 252; -- in the street cars, 463
Smurr, C. F., 561
Snow, 314, 525
Snyder, Meredith P., 469, 613, 638
Soap, first manufacture of, 78
Social customs, 135, 136, 184, 224, 228, 347
Social distinctions, absence of, 185
Social life, simplicity of, 185; --, marked by cordiality,
135, 184, 312, 383
Society Islands, 254
Soda in Owens Lake, 387
Soda water and fountains, 363
Söderhamn, 4
Sohms, Henry, 340
Solano, Alfredo, 78, 545, 607
Solano, Francisco, 78
Solar heater, inventor of, 615
Soldiers, 586; -- Home, 143; --, return of, to the Coast,
353
Soledad, 375, 496; -- Pass, 440
Solomon, David, 342, 343
Solomon, M. S., 608
_Sombrero_, 158, 264
_Song of the Bell, The_, 119
Sonita, 205
Sonora, 42, 90, 205
Sonora Town, 31, 62ff., 78, 97, 134, 161, 227, 362, 458,
549
Sortorel, Romo, 433
Sound Money League, 613
South Africa, 547
South California, proposed State of, 591
South Pasadena, 178, 448
Southern California, 22, 26, 95, 146, 166ff., 168, 176,
183, 187, 205, 211, 215, 242, 252, 261, 274, 328, 334, 421,
437, 439, 450, 477, 493, 503, 519, 520, 530, 544, 569, 597,
616, 640, 645, 650; -- in State affairs, 35, 353, 406
Southern California Academy of Science, 599, 640; -- Science
Association, 599
Southern California Architects Association, 470
Southern California Coffee and Spice Mills, 559
Southern California Colony Association, 391
Southern California Fish Co., 628
Southern California, University of, 566
_Southern Californian_, 92, 133, 141, 148, 177, 190, 447
_Southern News_ (see under _News_)
Southern Overland Mail Route, 301
Southern Pacific Railroad Co., 190, 322, 388, 450, 451, 453,
468, 475, 482, 493, 496, 498, 503ff., 506, 510, 517, 521,
549, 556, 561, 563, 569, 576, 619; threat to cut off Los
Angeles, 502; Arcade Depot, 112, 512, 531, 562; River
Station, 531, 562; --, Coast line, 583
_Southern Vineyard_ (see under Vineyard)
_Southerner_, 152
Southland, new interest in the, 509
Southside, 579
Southwest Museum, 595, 635, 647, 648
Southwest Society, 542, 626
Spadra, 89, 144, 330
Spain, King of (Alfonso XIII.), 542; grant from King of
Spain, 40
Spalding, William A., 516, 556, 612
Spanish-American War, 616
Spanish archives, 400; -- drama, 352; -- families, 97; --
Fathers, 101; -- language and names, 56, 93, 133, 170, 262,
308, 315, 354, 371, 422, 528, 563; -- Missions, 102, 326,
398, 520, 542, 589, 604; --newspapers, 93, 156, 308, 443; --
-Mexican restaurants, 133, 178
Speculation during the Boom, mania for, 572
Spence, Edward F., 467, 473, 516, 521, 552, 566
Spencer, William, 609
Spikes, golden, 388, 504
Spiritualism, 483
Sports, 157, 159ff., 182, 242, 282, 401, 423, 490
Spring Street, 112, 335, 336, 401, 408, 417, 419, 472, 518,
561; --, origin of the name, 336; Spring and Sixth Street
Railway, 460ff.
Sproule, William, 619
Spurgeon, William H., 401
Spurs, 110, 159
Squatters, 382
Squirrels, ground, 24, 163, 215
Stages and staging, 117, 198, 234, 235, 246, 270, 302, 337,
357, 374, 389, 391, 393, 394, 414, 416, 429, 435, 464, 465,
481, 496, 497, 498, 532, 583; coast line, 153; express and
mail by stages, 234, 373; staging from San Pedro to Los
Angeles, 24, 341, 464; from Los Angeles to San Francisco,
464; stage robberies, 394
_Stamboul_, stallion, 592
Stamped envelopes, 291, 374
Standard Wooden Ware Co., 601
Stanford, Leland, 322, 324, 388, 440, 503, 506, 507, 562
Stanley, John Quincy Adams, 35, 43, 44
_Star King_, 10
_Star_, Los Angeles, 54, 89, 92, 93, 94, 133, 162, 191, 240,
249, 262, 276, 280, 292, 301, 306, 312, 315, 361, 371, 414,
446, 447, 464, 498, 612
_Star of the West_, steamship, 14, 289
Stark & Ryer, 286
Stassforth, H., 303
State divisions, proposed, 188, 241, 520, 521, 591
State moneys, how carried to Sacramento, 260
State Normal School, 532
Stationers, 389
Stealing, Indians prone to, 131
Steam-bath, 371
Steam Navigation Co., 336
Steam separator, first, 384
Steam wagon, 276
Steamers, 237, 290, 346, 366, 395; little --, or tugs, 165,
237, 290, 398; --, affecting schedule of trains, 404;
arrival of -- announced by a signal gun, 153; change of
names, 152; competition of --, 285, 435; departure of --
affected by high seas, 154; or dependent on whim of captain,
154; express sent by --, 373; -- and mail, 374; Pacific --,
336; coastwise service of --, 22, 149, 152, 154, 210, 300,
311, 312, 336, 381, 432, 436, 460, 465, 486, 506; service
often miserable, 336, and inconvenient, 486
Stearns, Abel, 30, 46, 70, 73, 77, 84ff., 109, 151, 166,
189, 214, 215, 223, 226, 229, 255, 295, 313, 329, 343, 344,
377, 430, 510; -- & Bell, 200; -- carriage, 85; -- Hall,
314, 381, 385, 420, 427; Doña Arcadia -- (_née_ Bandini),
85, 109, 254, 430
Steele, Harriet, xvi
Stephens, Albert M., 597
Stephens, William Dennison, 600, 638
Stereopticon, early used in advertising, 499
Stern, Alfred, 43
Stern, Charles F., 43
Stettin, Germany, 3, 4
Stevens & Wood, 363
Stevenson, J. D., & --'s Regiment, 39, 49, 94, 476
Stewart, George H., 607, 613
Stewart, William M., 479
Still, William G., 283, 333
Stock breeding, 427
Stockholm, 5
Stockton, Robert Field, 24, 100, 178
Stockton, William M., 199
Stoermer, August, 147
Stoll, H. W., 363, 409
Stoll, Philip, 409
Stone, artificial, 490
Stoneman, George H., 394, 441, 443, 488, 499, 503, 528, 540,
581
Storke, C. A., 450
Storms, off Newfoundland, 11; of 1856, 194; incidental to
earthquakes, 312
Story, Francis Quarles, 634
Stovell, Thomas, 568
Stower, John S., 230
_Stranded Bugle, The_, 583
Strassburg, 564; University of --, 598
Straus, Isadore and Mrs., 644
Strauss, Mr., 627
Strauss, Levi & Co., 381
Strawberries, 125, 428
Street of the Maids, 63, 159
Street railways: first (Spring & Sixth Street), 460, 461,
609; second (Main Street line), 389, 462; tickets, how sold,
461; transfers, 462; first double-track, 562
Streets, lighting of, 34, 68, 267, 349, 400, 408; --, bad
condition of, 34, 307, 584; --, filled with refuse, 34; --,
neglect of, 83; --, ungraded, 34; street numbers, absence
of, 80; -- parades in, 338, 499ff., 528, 529;
street-scenes, 222; -- sprinklers, 416
Strelitz Block, 511, 550
Stroble, Max von, 346, 406
Strobridge, George F., xvi
Strohm, Thomas, 550
Strong, Charles, 416
Stuart, J. H., 203
Stubbs, J. C., 504, 619
Subdividing and subdivisions, 292, 376, 570, 572ff.
_Sued-Californische Post_, 465, 584
Suffrage Convention, Equal, 13
Sugar-beets, 388, 598; beet-sugar refining, 388, 598
Sugranes, Eugene, xvi
Sulky, pioneer, 71
Sullivan, Arthur, 547
_Sultana_, 253
Summer outings, 429, 481
Summers, Emma A., 603
Summit Creek, 155
Sumner, Edwin V., 294, 316
Sumter, Fort, 266, 294, 616
Sundsvall, 4
Sunny Slope, 200
Sunset Oil Co., 379
Sun Yat Sen, 645
Superintendent of Schools, 105, 106, 389, 390, 419, 452,
526, 642; office once vacant, 396
_Supply_, steamship, 222
Supreme Court, 637
Surgeons and early surgery, 108, 110, 297
Surveyors and surveys, 33, 34, 36, 38, 112, 149, 411
Sutter, John A., 476; --'s Creek, 39
Swamps, 112
Swansea, Wales, 388
Sweden, 2, 3, 6, 336, 564, 621
Sweet-potatoes, 126
Switching-charge case, 637
Switzer, Carrie, xii
Switzer (Sweitzer), C. P., 543; --'s Camp, 543
Switzerland, 336, 398
Sycamore Grove, 401, 647
Sycamore tree, 126, 197, 401, 543
_Sydney Ware_, race horse, 160
Sylvester, John, 58
T
Tacoma, 602
Taft, William H., banquet to, 639
Tag, game of, 596
Tahoe Lake, 477
Tailors, 338; American --, 159; Mexican --, 159
Tajo Building, 90
Tally, Thomas L., 443; --'s Theater, 443
_Tamales_, 134, 277, 391; _tamale_ vender, 391, 629
_Tanner_, brig, 345
Tannery, 82; attempt to establish a --, 269
Tapía, Luciano, 206, 210
Tatooing, by Indians, 218
Taxes, 298, 333, 446; --, property sold for delinquent, 334,
443; --, delinquent during Boom, 582; --, not collected, 328
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, 514
Taylor, W. J., 412
Teachers, 47, 92, 105ff., 111, 141, 163, 190, 257, 263,
308, 331, 355, 356, 373, 389, 390, 402, 419, 473, 494, 532,
539, 610; first woman public school teacher, 47
Teachers' Institute, first, 418
Tecate, 424
Tedro, Philip, 222
Teed, M., 614
Tefft, Henry A., 56
Teháchepi, 44, 440, 582; disaster near --, 536
Tejón, Fort, 46, 204, 222, 234, 248, 297, 317, 327, 333; --
Band, 157; -- Paso, 58
Tejunga Pass, 208, 454; -- _rancho_, 74
_Telegram, Evening_, 533
Telegram, $75 to U. S. Senate, 503
Telegraph, electric, and telegraphing, 234, 271, 283ff.,
305, 307, 308, 411; rates, 401; undeveloped --, 9; first
wire into a business office, 425; shortage of wire, 284;
wireless --, 624, 643
Telegraph Stage Line, 496, 497
Telephone, 560; --, first introduction here, 531
Telescopes, astronomical, 566
Tell, Will, and Tell's Place, 429, 460, 490, 581
Temécula, 124, 234
Temescal mines, 272, 302
Temple Auditorium, 590
Temple, Francis Phinney Fisk, 67, 167, 274, 282, 292, 317,
328, 372, 435, 441, 454, 479; known as _Templito_, 167, 292;
death of, 167, 479, 520; -- _rancho_, 435; -- & Workman,
435, 454, 467, 478, 482, 510
Temple, John (Juan), 37, 66ff., 74, 80, 122, 129, 139, 159,
165, 229, 240, 256, 258, 263, 287, 291, 302; Mrs. --, 67; --
Building (adobe), 67, 78, 291, 343, 372; -- Court House, 67,
339, 440; -- Market, 240, 294; -- _rancho_, 204; --, sale of
properties, 67; -- Street, 61, 66, 417, 472; -- Theater,
240, 263, 286, 318; subdivision of West Temple Street, 61,
112; -- & Alexander, 23; -- & Gibson, 340
Temple Block, 32, 67, 229, 273, 279, 300, 312, 364, 410,
435, 462, 490, 510, 519, 524, 534, 596
Terminal Island, 601
Terminal Railroad, 601
Terry, David S., 130
Teschemacher, H. F., 284
Teutonia, 214, 338; -- Hall, 426; -- Concordia, 259, 428
Texans, 91; exodus to Texas, 266
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 118
Thayer, John S., 545
Theaters, 185, 543, 559; John Temple's Theater, 240, 263,
286, 318; Merced Theater, 103, 186, 422, 443, 450; Rough and
Ready Theater, 186; Spanish theater, 352, 422; theatrical
plays postponed, 286
Theodore Bros., 87
Thirty-Eights, firemen, 356, 446, 464, 500
Thirty-fifth parallel, 285, 399, 440
Thom, Cameron E., 45, 49, 51, 52, 139, 146, 172, 224, 228,
295, 339, 347, 383, 434, 446, 481, 488, 521, 565, 587; Mrs.
-- (first wife, _née_ Hathwell), 52; Mrs. -- (second wife,
_née_ Hathwell), 52
Thomas, Bill, 404
Thomas, Frank J., 596, 607
Thompson, Captain, 226
Thompson, Ira W., 91, 196, 218, 251
Thompson, James, 181, 208, 246
Thompson, J. S., 505; Mrs. --, 181
Thompson, Judge, 457
Thompson, P., 405
Thompson, Robert, 432, 433, 434
Thompson, S. S., 120
Thorn, A. O., 357
Thornton, Harry I., 146
Threadneedle Street, 407
Three-fingered Jack, 58
Throop, Amos G. ("Father"), 599; -- College of Technology,
599
Thurman, H. L., 92
Thurman, J. S., 92
Thurman, S. D., 92
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, xii
Tibbetts, Jonathan, 91
Tibbetts, L. C., 451
Tichenor, H. B., 380, 467
Tiffany, George A., 427, 446
Tiffany & Wethered, 267
Tilden, A. F., 273
Tilden, Samuel J., 297, 323, 591
Tileston, Emery & Co., 384
_Times_, Los Angeles, 373, 444, 482, 530, 533, 541, 556,
583, 590, 591, 612, 616, 617, 636, 646; Times-Mirror Co.,
533, 555, 556, 557; the Times Building, 453; --, destruction
of, 641; _Times Magazine_, 617
Timms, Augustus W., 23, 342, 500, 522; -- Cove, 522; --
Landing, 23, 237, 522; -- Point, 522
Tipton, 496
Tischler, Hyman, 75, 329, 330; -- & Schlesinger, 229
_Titanic_, steamship, disaster to the, 644
Titus, L. H., 200, 423, 426, 445, 591, 593
Tivoli Garden, 273, 340; -- Opera House, 559
Toasts, old-fashioned, 399
Tobacco, 253, 505, 649; -- growing, 252; indulgence in --;
by women, 253
Toberman, James R., 330, 372, 373, 445, 446, 535; -- Street,
446
Todd, Surgeon, 321
Toland, Dr. H. H., 319
Tomatoes, early, 428
Tom Gray Ranch, 357
Tomlinson, J. J., 23, 42, 236, 274, 290, 370, 371; -- & Co.,
337, 342; -- & Griffith, 420; -- corral gate, 327, 420, 433
Tonner, P. C., 419
_Toreador_, 161
Torneå, 5
Toros, 414
Toros, Calle de, 161
Torrance, Jared S., 647; -- Tower, 648
_Tortillas_, 134
Tourists, great influx of, 570
Tournament Park, Pasadena, 592; Tournament of Roses
Association, 592
Town ball, 596
Town, R. M., 472
Towns, frenzied founding of, 570
Townsend, B. A., 23
Trafford, Thomas, 326, 418
Transatlantic travel, 10ff., 67, 163, 164, 360, 564, 621
Trask, D. K., 607
Travel, difficulties of railway, 393, 496
Treadwell and Treadwell Mines, 602
Treasure, digging for, 254
Trees, 269, 291, 388; --, dearth of early, 162, 291;
Mariposa big --, 272; --, objection to watering, 163; --,
sacrificed for fuel, 141
_Trenza de sus Cabellos, la_, 352
Tres Pinos, 453, 457
_Tribune, Daily_, Los Angeles, 556
_Tribune_, Los Angeles, 642
Trinity Methodist Church, corner-stone opening, 474
Tropical life, 15
Tropico, 547
Truck, first flat, 335
Truck gardening, 124, 125
Truckee River, 370
Trudell, Jean B., 132; Mrs. -- (formerly, Mrs. Henry
Mellus), 133
Truman, Ben C., 361, 394, 441, 446, 447, 483, 498, 605, 607,
612, 636; Mrs. --, 361, 612
Truth, native shyness of, 131
Truxton, 460
Tuch, Nathan, 89
Tucson, 301, 317, 375, 504
Tuffree, J. R., 581
Tulare County, 188
Tules, 112
Tuna, canned, 628
Tunnels, 496, 502, 504, 622; made and needed, 623
Turck, W. I., xvi
Turkey, mammoth, 423
Turner, Joel H., 379, 388, 398, 399
Turner, John, 87
Turner, William, 500
Turner, William F., 87, 470; Mrs. --, 470
Turntable, first railroad, 397
Turnverein, 214, 272, 402, 409, 410, 428, 623; -- Building,
first, 428; -- Block, 192; Turnverein-Germania, 428, 584,
629; -- Hall, 192, 526, 529, 533, 573, 584, 630
Tustin (Tustin City), 181, 577
Tustin, Columbus, 577, 578
Twain, Mark, 32
Tweed, William Marcy, 590
"Twenty-five Years Ago To-day," 623
Twist, W. W., 147, 209
Twitchell, Cæsar C., 106
_Two Years before the Mast_, 197, 226, 255, 296
Typewriter, first, 497
Ty, Sing, 433
Tyson's Wells, 415
U
Uhrie, Marie, 39
Ulyard, August, 77, 191, 287, 481; Mrs. --, 77
Umeå, 4
Unangst, E. P. and Mrs., xvi
Union Hardware and Metal Co., 409
Union League, 338; -- Club, Philadelphia, 498
_Union_, steamer, 360
Union Warehouse, 288
Union & Texas Pacific Railroad, 486
Unionists, 224, 296, 306, 321, 333, 339, 341; --, San
Francisco, 339
United States and North America, 399
United States Army and officers, 166, 171, 173, 221, 224,
247, 271, 272, 297, 303, 341, 358; headquarters, 246, 265,
297, 299, 301, 311, 321, 341, 358, 517, 587
United States Circuit Court, 565; -- District Court, first
judge, 279
United States Government, 299, 308, 311, 321, 339, 353, 426,
435, 630
United States Hotel, 149, 244, 279, 303, 380, 397, 469, 481,
581
Universal City, 344
University of California, 403, 536, 624, 631
University of Chicago, 567
University of Southern California, 516, 536, 548
University Place, 609
Unruh, H. A., 475
Upper Main Street, 63, 159
Usurers, 130
Utah, 507, 301, 330
V
Vaccination, opposition to, 118, 322
Vaché, Adolphe, 281
Vaché, Émile, 280; -- Frères, 280, 548
Vaché, Théophile, 280; -- & Co., T., 281
Vail, W. L., 634
Valdez, José María, 58
Valle, António, 550
Vallejo, General, 263
_Valor of Ignorance, The_, 645
Vandever, William, 591
Van Dyke, Walter, 596
Van Dyke, William M., xvi
Van Gilpin, Professor, 373
Van Nuys, Isaac Newton, 381, 421, 493, 514, 515, 537, 607;
--Building, 515; -- Hotel, 340
_Vaquero_, steamship, 430
_Vaqueros_, 90, 182, 243
_Vara_, the, 33, 262
Varela, Serbo, 266
Vasquez, Tibúrcio, 223, 453ff., 471, 517; --, recipient, in
cell, of flowers, 458; --, executed, 458
Vassallo, Francisco, 550
Vawter, E. J., 481
Vawter, William D., 481
Vawter, W. S., 481
Vegetables, 88, 124ff., 192, 272, 317, 332, 428, 504, 514,
552; --peddled to steamers, 12
Vejar, John C., 147
Vejar, Ricardo, 174, 178, 200, 329; -- Vineyard, 474
Vejar, Soledad, 147
Velardes, Francisco, 159
Velocipedes, 384
Venice, 627, 630
Ventura (see San Buenaventura)
_Ventura_, 346
Ventura County, 22, 599
Verandas, 113
Verde, Cape, 123
Verdugo Cañon, 424; --, Casa, 178
Verdugo family, 177
Verdugo, Guillermo, 178
Verdugo, José María, 177; -- _rancho_, 178, 181, 424
Verdugo, Julio, 178
Verdugo, Julio Chrisostino, 178
Verdugo, Victoriano, 178
Verelo, Miguel, 427
Vergara, Manuel, 35
Vernon, 575, 609
Vernon Avenue, 202
Vernondale, 575
Vickery & Hinds, 550
Vielle, Louis, 369
Vigilance Committees, 66, 139, 147, 207ff., 324ff., 419;
--, San Francisco, 21, 54, 340
Vignes, Jean Louis, 62, 89, 100, 108, 171, 190, 197, 198,
200, 312; --Street, 198
Vignolo & Sanguinetti, 550
Villard, Henry, 539
Vineyard, James F., 143
Vineyard, Lake, 169, 306
_Vineyard, Southern_, 224
Vineyards, 25, 103, 112, 132, 142, 162, 197ff., 200, 213,
233, 238, 249, 265, 281, 286, 292, 293, 300, 337, 363, 378,
398, 445, 474, 610; -- affected by floods, 309; mother
vineyard, 199
Vintage, 294
Virgen, P. J., 34; -- Street, 34
Virgenes, Calle de las, 159
Virgin Bay, 16
Virginia City, Nevada, 477
Visalia, 270, 234; -- and the Southern Pacific, 503
Visiting, 81
Visitors, commotion caused by, 137
Vista del Arroya, 532
Voting precinct, first, 41
Vulture Mines, 415
W
Wachtel, J. V., 589
Wackerbarth, August, xvi
Wade, K. H., 607
Wadhams, Collins, 76; -- & Foster, 76
Wagons, 24, 83; --, bet on races, 161; --, used for gallows,
433; --from Salt Lake, 187; spring-wagon, 85; wagon-trains,
242, 322, 354
Waite, Alonzo, 306, 315, 350, 380, 443, 446
Waite, James S., 94, 191, 192; -- & Co., 133
Waldeck, Jacob E., 605
Waldron, Dave, 462, 463
Walker, Frank, 615
Walker, Irving M., 355
Walker, William, 21, 54, 407
Wall Street, 448
Wallace, William A., 106, 192
Waller, G. M., 512
Walleria, 579
Walnut seed, black, 163
Walters, George, 63
Walther, F. G., 388
Walton, Charles S., 606
Ward, Ben E., 580
Ward, Mrs. J. T., xvi
Ward, John, 83
Wards, London publishers, 631
Ware, Jim, 268
Warehouses, 288
Warner, Charles Dudley, 597
Warner, Jonathan Trumbull (Juan José), 169, 170, 224, 256,
323, 372, 426, 501, 515, 541, 578, 609; --, Mrs., 170; --'s
Ranch, 169, 234, 294, 542
Warren, William C., 221, 327, 339, 418
Wartenberg, Henry, 61, 405, 409
Washburn, W. J., 626
Washburne, Elihu B., 360
Washing clothes, mode of, 117; --, in the river, 117
Washington, Colonel, 183
Washington Gardens, 447, 462, 463, 547
Washington, George and Martha, 500; --'s Birthday
Celebrations, 147, 264
Washington Street, 474
Washoe Gold Fields, 333
Wass Molitor & Co., 130
Watchmakers, 68, 213, 235, 356
Water, 211, 355, 360, 365, 370, 372, 418, 446, 533, 613,
618; --Commissioner, 116; -- Companies, 366, 377, 384, 418,
446, 454, 495, 509, 534; -- dam, 372; -- ditch, Child's 231;
domestic -- supply, 116, 117; --, Los Angeles River, 116;
water system, nucleus of, 210; --, objection to use of, 163;
--, peddling of, 116, 117, 350; -- pipes, iron, 377, 384,
445; -- pipes, wooden, 211, 350, 366; --, pollution of, 116;
--, scarcity of, 114; --, stealing of, 125; --, _zanja_,
115, 116
Watermelons, 126, 563; seeds of, for medicinal uses, 127
Waters, James, 63
Waters, Russell Judson, 605
Watkins, Commodore, 306
Watson, James A., 139, 174, 318
Way, Daniel E., 318
Weapons, carrying, 224; --, forbidden, 348
Weather prophets, 126, 421
Weaver Diggings, 321
Webber & Haas, 244, 303
Weber, shoemaker, 86
Webster, Daniel, 93, 650
Weddings, 136, 224, 347, 410, 464, 538, 636, 637
Weed, Edward A., 548
_Weekly Mirror_, see under _Mirror_
Weidner, Perry W., 634, 639
Weil, Alexander, 565
Weil, Alphonse, 551
Weil, Jacob, 91
Weiner, Captain, 150
Weinschank, Andrew A., 453
Weinschank, Caroline, 453
Weinschank, Frank A., 453
Weixel, Jacob, 115
Welch, J. C., 109, 320
Wells Fargo & Co., 39, 57, 111, 201, 233, 241, 245, 260,
261, 280, 313, 320, 330, 373ff., 395, 410, 475
Wells, G. Wiley, 517
Wesley Avenue, 462, 516
West, B. R., 318
Western Union Telegraph Co., 411
Westlake district, 629; -- Park, 349, 609; --, subdivision,
112
Westminster, 177; -- Hotel, 419
Weston, Olive E., xvi
West Prussia, 1
Weyse, H. G., 202
Weyse, Julius, 202
Weyse, Otto G., and Mrs., 202
Weyse, Rudolf G., 202; Mrs. --, 142, 202
Whaling, 268, 308
Wharf, Long, San Francisco, 21, 89, 199; --, Port Los
Angeles, 468
Wharf, Santa Monica, 485
Wharves, absence of, 19, 22, 56
What Cheer House, 369
Wheat, 332, 381, 493
Wheat, A. C., xvi
Wheeler, Horace Z., 38, 218
Wheeler, John Ozias, 38, 133, 218, 249, 279, 373, 379, 462,
529, 562; -- Bros., 38
Wheeler, Mary Esther, 106, 373
Wheelwrights, 82, 84, 115, 153, 239, 358, 384
Whigs, 91
Whipping post, 66
Whipple Barracks, Arizona, 587
Whisky Flat, 357
Whist, 230
Whitcomb, George, 576
Whitcomb, Ledora, 576
White, Caleb E., 512
White, Charles H., 452, 556
White, Jennie, 185, 436
White, Michael, 87, 90
White House, 219, 542, 618; --, hotel, 418, 552
White Pine, Nevada, 424
White River, 414
White, Stephen M., 467, 553ff., 565, 596, 597, 607; --,
monument to, 468
White, Thomas J., 107, 185, 200, 267, 356, 436
White, T. Jeff, 185
White's Point, 624
Whitman, George N., 43
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 576; --, town of, 180, 374, 555,
576, 620; --, origin of name, 489
Whitworth, James H., 250
Wholesalers' Board of Trade, 538
Wickenberg, 415
Wicks, Moye, 477
Wicks, Moses Langley, 476, 540
Widney, Joseph P., 370, 423, 457, 483, 501, 516, 521, 529,
548, 589
Widney, Robert Maclay, 370, 401, 412, 426, 434, 442, 449,
460, 483, 489, 503, 515, 521; Mrs. --, 634
Widney, Samuel A., 311
Wiebecke's beer garden, Frau, 409
Wiebers, D., 601, 635, 637
Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 474
Wiggins, Frank, 607, 634, 647
Wigmore, George H., 619
Wilburn, Robert, 275
Wilcox, Henry, 472, 473
Wild animals, first, 463
Wilde, Charles L., xvi
Wiley, H. C., 180, 395, 492; Mrs. --, 180, 493
Wilhart, Louis, 82, 200
Wilkins, Charles, 327
Willard, Charles Dwight, vii, 543, 545, 607, 619, 635, 646;
Mrs. --, 646, 647
Willhartitz, Adolph, 625
Williams, Francisca, 168, 347
Williams, George, 348
Williams, George, grocer, 551
Williams, Hiram, 197
Williams, J. A. & Co., 613
Williams, Julian Isaac, 38, 167, 168, 197, 226, 263, 326,
347, 598, 617; --, Mrs., 347
Williams, María Merced, 168
Williamson, George, 379
Williamson, Mariana, 444
Williamson, Mrs. M. Burton, 603
Williamson, Nels, 82, 444
Williamson Tract, 573
Willmore, W. E., 521; -- City, 521
Willows, 126, 198, 212, 329, 614
Willow Springs, 414
Wills, Mrs. Charlotte LeMoyne, 567
Wills, John A., 567
Wills, W. LeMoyne, 363, 567, 607
Wilmington, 218, 236, 247, 299, 301, 311, 321, 326, 342,
353, 363, 366, 375, 376, 381, 384, 389, 393ff., 397, 402,
404, 506, 520, 548, 637, 638; --, charge for hauling from,
343; -- Harbor, 426; --shipping, 236; --, Southern Pacific
Railroad influence in favor of, 521; -- Street, 551; --
Transportation Co., 568
_Wilmington Journal_, 404
Wilmington, Delaware, 236
Wilshire, H. G., 580; -- Boulevard, 580
Wilshire, W. B., 607
Wilshire district, 379; -- subdivision, 112
Wilson, Benjamin (Benito) Davis, 63, 168, 172, 175, 190,
200, 241, 302, 306, 316, 320, 322, 346, 363, 412, 440, 445,
451; Mrs. -- (_née_ Yorba), 169; Mrs. -- (formerly Mrs. M.
S. Hereford), 169, 316, 320; proposed -- College, 451; --,
Mount, 566; --'s Peak, 168
Wilson, Bob, 248
Wilson, C. N., 541
Wilson, Emmet H., 626
Wilson, John, 28, 428
Wilson, Peter (Bully), 279, 429
Wilson, Ruth, 363
Wilson's Station, 415
Windmills, 460
Windstorms, 336
Windward Passage, 14
Wine cellars, 294; -- gardens, 193
Wineries, wine-making and wines, 134, 200, 202, 203, 219,
233, 238, 239, 265, 280, 294, 369, 407
_Winfield Scott_, steamship, wreck of, 22
Winston, James B., 107, 108, 109, 183, 245, 255, 346, 380;
Mrs. --, 183, 255; -- & Co., J. B., 316; -- & Hodges, 26,
92; -- & King, 380
_Wireless_, 624
Wise, K. D., 457
Witmer, Henry Clay, 563
Wolfenstein, V., 364
Wolfskill, John, 170; -- Tract, 586
Wolfskill, Joseph, 212, 263
Wolfskill, Juana, 142
Wolfskill, Louis, 170, 174, 263, 439
Wolfskill, Magdalena, 171
Wolfskill, Mateo, 170, 171
Wolfskill, Timoteo, 72
Wolfskill, William, 72, 89, 106, 112, 125, 142, 163, 170,
174, 187, 199, 201, 211, 212, 219, 229, 244, 286, 326, 336,
357, 394, 439; Mrs. --, 171; -- Building, 362; -- Lane, 485;
-- orange grove, 212; --ranch and subdivision, 544; -- Road,
273; -- Tract, 562; -- Vineyard, 201
Wollweber, Theodore, 201, 291
Woman's Gun, 101; -- rights, 278
Women's clubs, 473, 600, 607; --, open air meeting of, 409
Wood as fuel, 37, 141
Wood, lynching of, 324, 327
Wood, C. Modini, 529; --, Mrs. (see under Perry)
Wood, F. W., 606
Wood, John, 463; --'s Opera House, 463; --'s Band, 499
Woodworth, Alice, 142
Woodworth, John D., 231, 445
Woodworth, Samuel, 231
Woodworth, Wallace, 81, 231, 263; --, Mrs., 200, 263
Wool, and the wool-craze, 288, 421, 437ff., 628; woolen
mills, 450, 511
Woollacott, H. J., 79, 607
Woolwine, Thomas Lee, 111
Woolwine, W. D., 607
Wooster Street Congregation, New York, 122
Worden, Perry, viii., 119
Workman, Antónia Margarita, 167
Workman, Boyle, 233
Workman, David and Mrs., 132
Workman, Elijah H., 132, 269, 417
Workman, Thomas H., 42, 132, 142, 320; Mrs. --, 142
Workman, William, 132, 172, 205, 242, 317, 355, 372, 479,
494
Workman, William H., 42, 43, 132, 141, 202, 224, 232, 256,
269, 349, 419, 481, 561, 587, 589, 594, 598, 629, 630; --
Bros., 291; -- Street, 132
Workman, William H., Jr., 233
Works, John D., 517; -- & Lee, 517
Wright, E. T., 568
Wright, George, 436
Wright, John H., 358
Wright, J. T., 285
Y
_Yankee Doodle_, 501
Yankee notions, 218
Yarnell, George, 427; -- & Caystile, --, Caystile & Brown,
444; --, Caystile & Mathes, 530, 533
Yarnell, Jesse, 427
Yarrow, Henry G., 76
Yates, J. D., 78, 279
Yates, Mary D., 79
Ybarra, Francisco, 457
Yeast powders, 346
Yellow fever, 14, 359
Yellow tail, 127
Yerba Buena, 49
Yorba, Bernardo, 169, 177, 212, 238
Yorba, José António, 181
Yorba, Josefa, 103
Yorba, Ramona, 169
Yost, Robert M., 628
Young, Brigham, 156, 218, 345, 498
Young, Ewing, 170, 187
Young, Frances, 143
Ystad, 3, 4
Yuma, Fort, 35, 74, 205, 234, 247, 274, 283, 294, 301, 343,
375, 514
Z
Zahn, Johann Carl, 430
Zahn, Oswald F., 430
Zahn, Otto J., 430
_Zanjas_, 88, 115, 119, 125, 210, 218, 265, 322, 364, 472,
548, 573; _zanja madre_, 116, 210
_Zanjero_, 36, 94, 116, 125, 286, 295, 302, 573
Zarate, Felipe, 424
Zeehandelaar, Felix J., 607, 611, 639
Zeppelin, Ferdinand, 561
Zola, Émile, 451