DIVISION ONE — PRE-PASADENIAN. IO3 



And now, to recapitulate : Pasadena has the following living links of 

 direct connection with persons who took part in the struggle within easy 

 cannon sound of our streets, which resulted in making California an Eng- 

 lish-speaking American state, instead of a Spanish-speaking Mexican pro- 

 vince : 



ArTuro Bandini : His father and mother, his maternal grandfather 

 and two uncles all bore some goodly part on the American side, as fully 

 narrated in preceding pages. 



Hon. B. D. Wilson: See article, "Battle of Chino." Mrs. Wilson 

 and her daughters, Mrs. Ruth W. Patton and Miss Annie Wilson, and Mr. 

 Wilson's older daughter, Mrs. J. De Barth Shorb, are still with us — 1895. 



Don Manuel Garfias : The first U. S. patentee owner of Pasadena 

 soil was a Mexican Lieut. -Col. of cavalry, and took part in the battles of 

 San Gabriel Ford and lyaguna ranch January 8-9, 1847. From these de- 

 feats he went to Mexico, and was among the prisoners taken by Gen. Scott 

 when his army finally captured the City of Mexico. 



Dr. John S. Griffin : From whom the Orange Grove Colony bought 

 their land and started the Pasadena settlement. He was chief medical offi- 

 cer of the American troops in the battles of San Pasqual [San Diego coun- 

 ty, December 6, 1846], San Gabriel ford, and L,aguna ranch. He was 

 brother-in-law to our Judge Eaton, and brother to Mrs. Gen. Albert Sidney 

 Johnston. [See page 76, foot note]. 



Kit Carson : Col. Fremont's famous Rocky Mountain guide and scout 

 was with Fremont's troops in their march from San Diego to Los Angeles 

 in July-August, 1846 ; was sent as special envoy with despatches to Washing- 

 ton from Stockton and Fremont ; was stripped of his despatches and forced 

 to turn back by Gen. Kearny on the road from Santa Fe ; he was thus in 

 the battle of San Pasqual, and also in the battles of January 8 and 9, 1847. 

 His brother ApoUos Carson was in Fremont's battalion also ; and his son 

 Sam afterward lived a while in Pasadena. John V. Carson and his son Eu- 

 gene, well known building contractors of Pasadena, are cousins of Kit Car- 

 son ; and J. C. Studebaker is a nephew — son of Kit's sister Sarah. 



Old Francesca Lugo : Don Felipe Lugo owned the great La- 

 guna ranch, then called "La Mesa," at the time the battle of January 9, 

 1847, was fought there in plain sight of the whitewashed adobe walls of 

 Los Angeles ; and she herself acted as supply agent and commissary for the 

 Mexican troops during the two days' battles. Then when Col. Fremont 

 marched into the city and became the first American governor of California, 

 she delivered to him the keys of Gov. Pio Pico's house. She has resided in 

 Pasadena with her son Jose Lugo, on the Arroyo flat under the Linda Vista 

 bluff, for nine or ten years past, and claimed to be 100 years old about De- 

 cember I, 1894. 



