1 8 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



for $200,000.] Its original west line ran from the mouth of Eaton canyon 

 southwesterly to the corner of Wilson avenue and San Pasqual street, thence 

 back east along that street to Santa Anita avenue, thence south on that 

 avenue nearly to the Mission. In California he was always known as Hugo 

 Reid. Just when he was married I did not learn, but it appears that in 

 1839, when he took the oath of Mexican citizenship, he already had his In- 

 dian wife, Victoria, and two children. His wife was an excellent woman, 

 much respected at San Gabriel,* and a cottage which she built and lived in 

 is still pointed out as one of the historic buildings there, since her case was 

 dimly woven into the famous story of " Ramona ". In 1838 a piece of land 

 128^4^ acres called Huerta [garden] de Cuati was granted to her by Mexican 

 authority, and confirmed by U. S. patent of June 30, 1858 ; but as early as 

 1852 she had sold it to B. D. Wilson, and it became his I^ake Vineyard 

 home place, so intimately associated with Pasadena's early history. In 

 1843 Hugo Reid was justice of the peace at San Gabriel; in 1846 he was 

 auxiliary administrator in closing up the business of secularizing the Mis- 

 sion property ; the Mission was heavily in debt, and in June of that 5^ear 

 Governor Pico sold out the whole business — buildings, lands, water rights, 

 and all, to Hugo Reid and Wm. Workman — Reid being then in possession. 

 But in August of same year the country was captured by Stockton and Fre- 

 mont, and they annulled this sale as not valid under Mexican law. In 1849 

 Reid was elected to and served as a member of the convention which gave 

 California her first constitution, under which she entered the Union as a 

 sovereign state. He died in I^os Angeles December 12, 1852. 



A pioneer merchant and coast trader of San Francisco named Wm. 

 Heath Davis published in 1889 a book entitled "Sixty Years in California "; 

 and on pages 196-7 I find this narrative : 



"In November, 1844, James McKinlay and myself left San Diego and 

 went overland to Santa Anita. Hugo Reid, a Scotchman, lived at Santa 

 Anita. He was a skillful accountant, and we brought along with us, on a 

 pack animal, a large pile of account books belonging to the business of 

 Paty, McKinlay and Fitch, who were about dissolving their partnership. 

 We remained at Reid's house most of the months of November and Decem- 

 ber, adjusting and settling the books, with his aid. Reid had been dis- 

 appointed in love in his own country, his intended bride having ' thrown 

 him over ', so to speak ; and he left the country in disgust, vowing he would 

 marry some one of the same name as she who had slighted him, even 

 though an Indian woman. He came to California and fell in with a woman 

 of pure Indian blood, named Victoria, the name of his former love, and 

 married her. Upon our visit at Reid's house we found that they were living 

 very happily together. We were surprised and delighted with the excellence 

 and neatness of the housekeeping of the Indian wife, which could not have 

 been excelled. The beds which were furnished us to sleep in were exquis- 



*" There are strikinar examples of Indian women married to foreigners and native Californians, 

 exemplary wives and mothers." Hon. B. D. JViUon's report as U.S. Indian Agent iSs2. 



" The Indian women of California were far better stock than those of Mexico." — Davis' "Sixty 

 Years in Cat.," p. i<)6. 



