DIVI.SION ONE — PRE-PASADENIAN. 6 1 



which he held with distinguished success for twenty years. It was during 

 his administration that the old stone mill and the great stone dam at Wilson's 

 lake were built ; saw mill, tannery, tallow chandler}^, spinning rooms, weav- 

 ing works, saddle factory, and other industries were established and pushed 

 to success ; large orchards and vineyards planted, and water brought in 

 ditches from long distances to irrigate extensive field crops as well as fruits. 

 All this in addition to what had been done by his predecessors ; and thus he 

 brought the Mission to the highest degree of industrial and commercial suc- 

 cess ever reached by any Mission in California. But in the height of his 

 career, and when he had plans under way for a still farther increase of 

 business and pretige for this Mission, he was in 1826 removed by order of 

 the Friar President to San Juan Capistrano ; * and Friar Jose Bernardo 

 Sanchez was placed in charge of the San Gabriel Mission. 



During Zalvidea's administration there had resided at San Gabriel a 

 devout, motherly woman named Eulalia Perez de Guillen, a Spanish lady of 

 purest blood, who had won high repute as a midwife and nurse, and was in 

 attendance upon Senora Pico when her son Pio Pico [afterward twice made 

 Governor of California], was born May 5th, 1801. Eulalia Perez had taken 

 an earnest and practical interest in the welfare of the Indians, especially the 

 women — teaching them the arts, decencies and religious sentiments o^ 

 civilized life as best she could, and was a sort of Mother Superior to them in 

 her devotion and zeal for the church. For several years before Zalvidea's 

 removal from San Gabriel in 1826, the matter of secularizing the Mission 

 lands had been agitated ; for as early as Sept. 13th, 1823, the Mexican Con- 

 gress had passed a law for this purpose, which however was repealed and 

 reenacted, ordered enforced and then countermanded several times, and was 

 not finally enforced until about ten years later. Eulalia had been so helpful 

 and faithful in works of the churchf that Father Zalvidea wished to provide 

 for her in her old age by securing to her a large body of land, before the 

 Mission authority should be entirely broken up ; X accordingly he prepared 

 a deed to her of 3 J^ square leagues of land in the northwest portion of lands 

 belonging to the San Gabriel Mission. This deed was sent to Father San- 

 chez, who also knew right well of Senora Eulalia 's life-long labors for the 

 good of others ; and he approved and ratified it on Easter Day [called ' ' San 



* Zalvidea served here until 1842, when he was sent to San Luis Rey Mission, and died there early 

 in 1846. 



tEulalia's husband, Antonio Guillen, was one of the King's soldiers stationed at San Diego when 

 that Mission was first founded. But later he was sent to San Gabriel, and was there with his family in 

 1801. Then, some time before 1812 he was sent back to San Diego, and his daughter Maria de Los Angeles 

 was born there in that year. Later he fell sick; his son Theodore took his place as soldier of the Mission 

 guard ; and about 1821 he returned with his family to San Gabriel [the daughter above meutioned tells 

 me she was nine vears old when they came], and died here. Eulalia had eleven children, as follows : 



Peira— daughter. Jose fa— daughter [died young], Jose/a again— daughter. Tomas— son. Domttigo-- 

 son. Theodore— son. Lavreta-d&ui^hter. Maria /1m/o«zo— daughter. Maria de los Atigeles-Aaughter 

 [still living, the widow Lopez of San Gabriel]. Maria del /?oi(zrro— daughter, /fz/a— daughter, stiH 

 living, Senora de la Ossa, at San Gabriel,— and her son Fabricio de la Ossa is deputy sheriff there— 1S95. 



X " To secure lands for farming purposes, it was in former years necessary to get the written con- 

 sent of the Missionary under whose control they were, ere the government could give legitimate posses- 

 sion, therefore their acquisition depended entirely upon the good will of the Friar."— Z.i/f in Calijornia; 

 Robinson, p. 218. 



