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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



first American governor, is a few feet of adobe frontage occupied bj^ ^ 

 Chinese store ; and adjoining this on the west is a board shanty occupied as 

 Chinese lodgings. [See plate.] 



The "Fort," which was a mere earthwork, and after 1847 was gen- 

 erally called "Fremont's redout,"* was commenced by Gov. Micheltorena 

 in 1844 ; was occupied and improved a little by I,ieut. Gillespie in September, 



1846 ; was occupied and further improved by Col. Fremont's troops in January' 



1847 ; was enlarged and further strengthened by Col. Stevenson in 1847-48, 

 after Fremont had been taken east for court martial under Gen. Kearny's 

 infamous conspiracy.! Among the soldiers in Fremont's battalion in 1847 



"Land of Sunshine" Photo, 1S95. 



SITE OF COL. FREMONT'S HEADQUARTERS AS MILITARY GOVERNOR OF 

 CALIFORNIA, IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1847. 



was B. F. E. Kellogg, father of Mrs. Byron O. Clark of Pasadena. Mr. 

 Kellogg and a brother had the contract and built the United States fort at 

 Fort Laramie, Nebraska, in 1844. Then in 1846 he came across the moun- 

 tains with ox teams to California, arriving in Napa county in November. 

 Fremont was then recruiting his battalion at Monterey for the march to Los 

 Angeles, and Mr. Kellogg immediately joined it. He was with them on 

 the march, and at San Fernando, and the capitulation of Cahuenga, and in 

 lyos Angeles, and at San Gabriel where they waited some weeks to be final- 

 ly di.scharged. Mr. Kellogg died at Anaheim December 16, 1890, but was 

 buried at Mountain View cemetery, Pasadena ; and his grave is one of those 

 that are annually decorated there on Memorial day. 



*In December, I .SS3, I several times visited this old fort or redout, examining its barbettes, its 

 salient angles, rampart walls, sally ports, etc., some parts of which were then still traceable; but it has 

 all since been obliterated by street grading and other improvements. 



f'Gne of the howitzer.i which Owens was ordered to give up had been captured from Kearney at 

 San Pasqual and given up to Fremont at Cahuenga.'' — His.1 . Cal., Vol . •;, />. ././6. 



This order occurred at San (".abriel, while our B. K. Kellogg was therewith Kremonl's battalion 

 under Capt. Owens. Kearuy had always chafed under what had hav>pened with his howitzer, and hated 

 Fremont accordingly ; and this was one step in his plot to insult and aggravate F'remont into some tech- 

 nical insubordination. He refused to let Capt. Owens obey the sinister order, and that refusal was one 

 of the trumped-up charges against him for court martial. 



