The Conservative Water Company was a water supply company in the neighborhood of Watts, within Los Angeles, California. Originally named Conservative Realty Company, this company was founded by W.C. Elderton and it served the Watts community...
Charles Franklin Potter (b. 1861) and his brother Isaac B. Potter (b. 1856), were legal and financial counselors with extensive business interests in Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and California. They practiced law in New York before opening...
The Perris District Defense Association was formed in 1895 by property holders in the Perris Irrigation District in order to take legal action against the district for what the Defense Association saw as fraudulent practices of the district, with...
Robert and Brereton Catton left their native Scotland and arrived in Hawaii in 1878. They had six children: Margaret Mary Louise (known as "Mary"), Janet Renny (known as "Renny"), John Herbert, Robert Redford, Andrew Allen, and Richard Belmont....
Removed: 1. Complaint. [Includes map in two pieces showing ditch with adjacent parcels and parcel owners. From head of ditch to N.W. corner of rancho. Linen.]
John Alexander Gray was a Los Angeles newswriter who drafted articles relating to the Bureau of Power and Light (later the Dept. of Water and Power) and of the history of the City of Los Angeles.
Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1943) was an American novelist, essayist and political activist. She is best known for her portrayals of life in California and New Mexico, and her writings include: Land of little rain (1903), The flock (1906), and her...
Nathan W. Stowell was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, on December 15, 1851. He learned engineering and hydraulics in New England before moving to Los Angeles, California, in 1874. In Southern California, he worked on numerous irrigation and land...
James De Barth Shorb (1842-1896) was born in Frederick County, Maryland, a son of Dr. James Aloysius Shorb (1798-1867) and Margaret McMeal Shorb. He came to California in 1863 looking for oil in Ventura County, and married Maria de Jesus "Sue"...
Gurdon Wallace Wattles was born in 1855 in Tioga County, New York. His family moved to Iowa in 1868. He taught school and graduated from Iowa State University in 1876. He married Abigail Jane "Jennie" Leete in 1882 and started his banking career....
L. L. Bradbury was an investor and real estate developer prominent in Los Angeles in the late 19th century. In the 1880s, he acquired the Rancho Azusa de Duarte, which now includes the city of Duarte. He died in 1892. His son Lewis Bradbury assumed...
Removed: a. Exhibits B and C: Section of workings of Verdugo Cañon Water Co., L. Friel, C.E., October 12th, 1896 [cross section showing dam, bulkhead, and geology of supporting rock]; Profile showing drainage levels at submerged dam, Verdugo...
The Los Angeles Paving Company, owned and managed by the Werdin family, was an important business enterprise in 20th century Southern California. Ernest R. Werdin was born in 1869 in Minnesota and moved to Los Angeles in 1886. In 1902, he was...
Ralph Henry Cameron was born in Southport, Maine, in 1863. He moved to Arizona in 1883, and operated a sheep ranch with his brother Niles in Flagstaff. In 1890, he and his partners turned to mining and filed numerous mining claims in and around the...
From 1924 to 1926, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power built the St. Francis Dam in the San Francisquito Canyon to help provide water for the city. However, the dam collapsed in the night between March 12 and 13, 1928. The flood travelled...
Zoë Akins (1886-1958) was a dramatist, poet and screenwriter. In 1935, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her dramatization of Edith Wharton's story, The old maid. In addition to many screenplays and plays, Akins also authored two volumes of poetry,...