66 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Daily Star~\ bought it in 1871. Young Garfias had attended English schools 

 both in lyos Angeles and Anaheim, and was reckoned the smartest boy in 

 school to "speak apiece" — hence he was much in demand for entertain- 

 ment occasions, and naturally enough was somewhat proud of it. Sub- 

 sequently he attended St. Vincent's college in Los Angeles, and graduated 

 there. Then he went back to Mexico and studied law — but at last drifted 

 into miHtary life, won his way step by step, and finally reached the rank of 

 General. He was killed in battle in Honduras in April, 1893, while com- 

 manding troops in defense of the lawful government of that republic to 

 which he had offered his services against insurgents. 



In my researches upon this family I procured documents from the City 

 of Mexico ; and in a Mexican publication called El Universal^ dated Febru- 

 ary 21, 1 89 1, there was a sketch of this Pasadena boy which Arturo Bandini 

 kindly translated for me, and from it I quote this passage : 



' ' The love of country and the career of arms is traditional in the Garfias 

 family ; valor also is a hereditary trait. The father of our young Colonel 

 [afterward General] was Lieut. -Col. Manuel Garfias who fought bravely in 

 upper California against the Americans till the end of that war. Another 

 Col. Garfias, an uncle of Don Mariano and his brother our present subject, 

 is well known in our history as having occupied military positions above 

 any other one of equal rank, his probity, valor and talents in military af- 

 fairs being fully recognized. Worthy son and nephew of these military chief- 

 tains is young Col. Garfias, born in the flourishing city of Los Angeles [on 

 rancho San Pasqual — now Pasadena], upper California, thirty-nine years 

 ago [1852]. He was educated in the colleges of that state, receiving his 

 diploma therefrom.* In early youth he devoted himself for some time to 

 the study of law ; but he had missed his vocation ; his love and destiny was 

 the military profession. He had ancestors from whom to inherit it ; and as 

 his father and uncle were called to fill distinguished careers of arms, he 

 determined to follow in their footsteps. ' ' 



Mariano Jose Garfias, the second boy born on Pasadena soil, is now a 

 reputable lawyer in the City of Mexico ; and he had the distinguished honor 

 of being secretary and sub-delegate of the Mexican Commission to the great 

 Columbian World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. 



JUDGE EATON'S ACCOUNT OF THE GARFIAS HOUSE. 



" I came onto the San Pasqual Rancho, the present site of Pasadena, in 

 December, 1858. This Rancho was a Spanish grant made to Don Manuel 

 Garfias, a Captain [Lieut. -Col.] in the Mexican army who served in the de- 

 fense of his country when the Americans under Commodore Stockton and 

 Fremont invaded this section. The Mexican grant, which called for three 

 and a half square leagues (about 14,000 acres), was issued during Governor 

 Pico's administration in 1846 — only two years before the treaty of Hidalgo. 

 The only house on the rancho was the hacienda, located on the east bank of 



*St. Vincent's college at Los Angeles w».s started in 1S67 ; and Manuel E. Garfias and Arturo Ban- 

 dini were students there together. 



