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writing and re-writing, to the mere commercial idea of getting our money 

 back with profits, as soon as possible. This latter plan is what has made so 

 many of the ' ' county histories ' ' gotten up all over the country prove to be a 

 fraud, and brought the local historj^ business into disrepute. I said I must 

 be perfectly free and untrammeled to take a// the time I may find necessary 

 to do and undo and re-do the work, till I feel sure that bedrock facts have 

 been reached, on the different matters of historic interest to be set forth — 

 for there will be mistakes enough, even after the best endeavor has been 

 made to avoid them. And if thirty or forty citizens would aid me a little 

 for the necessary incidental expenses, such as explanatory circulars, inquiry 

 blanks, postage, stationery, horse hire for research trips, etc., I would 

 undertake the task. The question was raised, suppose I should not live to 

 complete it ? I replied that those who aided me would have whatever 

 manuscript and material I had accumulated, and could probably then get 

 some one else to complete it. Accordingly, an advance pledge note was 

 prepared, payable in 20 per cent, installments, to aid me in the matters 

 mentioned ; and these notes were signed by P. M. Green, B. F. Ball, F. R. 

 Harris, H. G. Bennett, Henry N. Farey, W. U. Masters, Wm. R. Staats, 

 R. H. Finney, J. A. Jacobs, T. J. Martin, M. D. Painter, P. G. Wooster, 

 James Smith, Benj. M. Page, James Cambell, T. P. lyukens, W. J. Barcus, 

 Ci C. Brown, Geo. T. Downing. Geo. V. Kernaghan, Oscar Freeman, Delos 

 Arnold, John McDonald, C. M. Simpson, Wm. H. Knight, F.J. Woodbury, 

 W. K. Arthur, G. Roscoe Thomas, A. K. McQuilling, D. J. Macpherson, 

 lyUcy F. Wilson, Jeanne C. Carr, J. W. Wood. All amounts thus prepaid 

 were to apply on the price of one or more copies of the book when printed. 

 So that was the origin of this History of Pasadena, and how it 

 came about that I undertook the preparation of the volume. In pursuance 

 of the work I have examined with care the follovving books which con- 

 tained more or less points of incidental linkage with Pasadena history : 



LIST OF works consulted. 



Centennial History of Los Angeles County. By Col. J. J. Warner, 

 Judge Hayes, and Dr. J. P. Widney. 1876. 



Publications of the I^os Angeles County Historical Society. 



Lewis's History Los Angeles County and Biographical Register. 1889. 



.Southern California. By T. S. Van Dyke of San Diego. Fords, How- 

 ard & Hurlbert, N. Y. 1886. 



California of the South. By Drs. Widney and Lindley of Los Angeles. 

 D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. 1888. 



A Southern California Paradise. By Rev. R. W. C. Farnsworth. 1883. 



All About Pasadena. By C. F. Holder. 1888. 



The Highlands of Pasadena. By C. F. Holder. H. S. Crocker & Co., 

 San Francisco. i88q. 



