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ANNUALPUBLICATION

OF THE HistoricalSociety OF SouthernCalifornia

AND OF THE Pioneers OF Los AngelesCounty

1Q03

LOS ANGELES, CAL. Gbo. Rice & Sons 1904 OrganizedNoveber 1, 1883 IncorporatedFebruary 12, I89I PART I. VOb. VI.

ANNUALPUBLICATION

OF THE HistoricalSociety OF SouthernCalifornia

AND OF THE Pioneers OF Los AngelesCounty

1Q03

LOS ANGELES, CAL. Gbo. Rice & Sons 1904 CONTENTS

HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Officersof theHistorical Society, 1903-1904 4 Portraitof CaptainBenjamin Daviess Moore 4 A Flag Staffand Flag forFort Moore. .L. A. EveningExpress. . 5 Flag Raisingon Site of FortMoore L. A. Daily Times.. 6 FortMoore J. M. Guinn.. 7 CaptainBenjamin Daviess Moore M. J. Moore.. 10 Historyof Santa CatalinaIsland. .Mrs. M. BurtonWilliamson. . 14 Illustration- Indian Soapstone Quarry 20 Ilustration- Avalon 28 AmericanGovernors of California H. D. Barrows.. 32 Renunciationof Chona Laura EvertsenKing. . 38 Two Decades of Local History J. M. Guinn.. 41 Letterof Col. J. C. Fremontto Secretaryoí War 48 Yuma IndianDepredations and the Glanton War. . J. M>.Guinn. . 50 YumaDepredations - Massacre of Dr. Lincolnand His Men 52 Depositionof WilliamCarr S2 Depositionof JeremiahHill 57 PIONEER SOCIETY PAPERS. Officersof thePioneers of Los AngelesCounty, 1903-1904 63 Constitutionand By-Laws 64 Order of Business 68 Reportsof theSecretary and Treasury 69 In theDays of 49 J-M- Guinn.. 71 An ExcitingEpisode of theEarly '60s H. D. Barrows.. 78 Los AngelesPioneers of 1836 StephenC. Foster.. 80 The Mythof GoldLake J. M. Guinn.. 82 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DECEASED PIONEERS. GeorgeHuntington Peck Autobiography.. 87 EdmundС Glidden J. M. Guinn.. 89 SamuelMeyer CommitteeReport. . 90 Carl Felix Heinzman CommitteeReport. . 90 JeanSentous H. D. Barrows.. 92 MicajahD. Johnson Los AngelesTimes. . 92 Ivar A. Weid CommitteeReport. . 93 JuliusBrousseau Los AngelesEvening Express. . 95 MoritzMorris H. D. Barrows.. ф In Memoriam 97 Roll of Members 9* Officersof the HistoricalSociety 1903

OFFICERS. Walter R. Bacon President A. C. Vroman First Vice-President Mrs. M. Burton Williamson Second Vice-President Edwin Baxter Treasurer J. M. Guinn Secretaryand Curator

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

А. С Vroman, Walter R. Bacon, H. D. Barrows, J. M. Guinn, J. D. Moody, Edwin Baxter, Mrs. M. Burton Williamson. 1904 OFFICERS (ELECT). Walter R. Bacon President Mrs. M. Burton Williamson First Vice-President Dr. J. E. Cowles Second Vice President Edwin Baxter Treasurer J. M. Guinn Secretaryand Curator

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Walter R. Bacon, Edwin Baxter, H. D. Barrows, A. C. Vroman, Dr. J. E. Cowles, J. M. Guinn, Mrs. M. Burton Williamson. PIONEERS or Los AngelesCoimtv

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY í 903-í 904

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. W. H. Workman, Chas. H. White, J. Frank Burns, J. W. Gillette, H. D. Barrows, J. M. Guinn. Louis Roeder, officers. J. Frank Burns President J. W. Gillette First Vice-President Chas. H. White Second Vice-President Louis Roeder Treasurer J. M. Guinn Secretary

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE. C. N. Wilson, Russell W. Ready. M. F. Quinn, FINANCE COMMITTEE. W. H. Workman, Chas. G. Keyes. H. A. Barclay, COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMME. Louis Roeder, Mrs. Abbie Hiller, Dr. K. D. Wise, Mrs. Jennie S. Read, Mrs. Virginia W' Davis, N. C. Carter, Mrs. Elenor Grosser, J. J. Gosper. Dr. A. H. Wern, GOOD OF THE ORDER. Dr. H. S. Orme, JerryNewell, J. M. Riley, Mrs. Dora Bilderbeck, E. J. Vawter, Simon B. Smith, Oscar Macy, Alfred James. J. L. Starr, COMMITTEE ON ENTERTAINMENT. Mrs. Mary Franklin, Chas. H. White, Mrs. Harriett S. Perry, N. C. Carter, Mrs. J. W. Gillette, E. K. Green, Mrs. J. G. Newell, N. Mercadante, Mrs. Susan C. Hopkins, J. M. Stewart. I In Memoriam

Deceased Members of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County.

James «I. Ayres Died November 10, 1897. Stephen C. Foster Died January 27, 1898. Horace Hlller Died May 23, 1898. John Strother Griffin Died August 23, 1898. Henry Clay Wiley Died October 25, 1898. William Blackstone Abernethy Died November 1,1898. Stephen W. La Dow Died January 6, 1899. Herman Raphael Died April 19, 1899. Francis Baker Died May 17, 1899. Leonard John Rose Died May 17, 1899. E. N. McDonald Died June 10, 1899. James Craig Died December 30, 1899. Palmer Milton Scott Died January 3, 1900. Francisco Sablchl Died April 13, 1900. Robert Miller Town Died April 24, 1900. Fred W. Wood Died May 19, 1900. Joseph Bayer Died July 27, 1900. Augustus U lyard Died August 5, 1900. A. M. Hough Died August 28, 1900. Henry F. Fleishman Died October 20, 1900. Frank Lecouvreur Died January 17, 1901. Daniel Shieck Died January 20, 1901. Andrew Glassell Died January 28, 1901. Thomas E. Rowan Died March 25, 1901. Mary Ulyard Died April 5, 1901. George Gephard Died April 12, 1901. William Frederick Grosser Died April 13, 1901. Samuel Calvert Foy Died April 24, 1901. Joseph Stoltenberg Died June 25, 1901. Charles Brode Died August 13, 1901. Joseph W. Junklns Died August, 1901. Laura Gibson Abernethy Died May 16, 1901. Elizabeth Langley Ensign Died September 20, 1901. Frank A. Gibson Died October 11, 1901. Godfrey Hargitt Died November 14, 1901. John C. Anderson Died January 25, 1902. Elijah Moulton Died January 28, 1902. John Charles Dotter Died March 3, 1902. John Caleb Salisbury Died July 10, 1902. H. K. W. Bent Died July 29, 1902. Anderson Rose Died August 30, 1902. Caleb E. White Died September 2, 1902. Jerry Illlch Died September 5, 1902. Daniel Desmond Died January 23, 1903. Edmund Cermy Glldden Died March 2, 1903. Samuel Meyer Died March 25, 1903. George Huntington Peck Died April 12, 1903. Carl Felix Helnzman Died April 29, 1903. Jean Sentous • Died April, 1903. Mlcajah D. Johnson Died June 6, 1903. Morrltz Morris Died June 10, 1903. Julius Brousseau Died October 15, 1903. Ivar A. Weld Died August 25, 1903. Alice W. B. Weyse Died November 6, 1903. Nicholas Kipp Died November, 1903. George Cummings Died December в, 1903. Mrs. Martha Nadeau Died January 7, 1904.