I04 HISTORY OF PAvSADENA. 



B. F. E. KRLI.OGG : Member of Fremont's California battalion, father- 

 in-law to Byron O. Clark, one of our best known citizens for ten or twelve 

 years past. 



Jesus Rubio, the original owner of Rubio Canyon, brought his uncle, 

 Francisco Rubio, to San Gabriel from the L,aguna ranch battle field where 

 he was fatally wounded and died next day. His uncle, Manuel Rubio, was 

 slightly wounded while lassoing Gen. Kearny's artillery horses in the battle 

 of San Pasqual. [Jesus Rubio now lives at Duarte — 1895.] 



Jose D. Olivas : grandson of Domingo Olivas, who was one of the 

 three peace commissioners who met Commodore Stockton on his second 

 march against Los Angeles. Olivas represented the Spanish people. 



Other citizens of Pasadena who took part in the Mexican war were : 

 J. A. Buchanan, 4th Regt. Indiana Volunteers ; Charles Everett, teamster ; 

 Parley S. Tubbs, 6th U. S. Inf.; A. Wakely, Co. D 7th U. S. Inf. In the 

 war of the rebellion, 1861-65, Wakel}^ was a captain in the 98th N. Y. Inf. 

 Mr. Everett was a member of F troop in Brig. -Gen. Kit Carson's ist. Regt. 

 New Mexico mounted infantry. Buchanan w^as purchasing agent in quar- 

 termaster department. 



schedule of battles in LOS ANGELES COUNTY. 



The battles or memorable actions locally near to Pasadena were : 



Capture of lyos Angeles, without battle, August 13, 1846, hy Commo- 

 dore Stockton and Col. Fremont. 



Night attack on American headquarters by Serbulo Barrelas and his 

 drunken revellers celebrating the Mexican "Independence Day," September 

 16, 1846. 



Arrest and imprisonment of leading Spani.sh citizens by Lieut. Gillespie, 

 September 17th and i8th, on account of the drunken mob. 



Siege of Gillespie' s barracks and headquarters by Mexicans in revolt, 

 September 19, 20, 21, etc., and he .sent to Capt. B. D. Wilson at Jurupa, 

 [now Riverside] for reinforcements. 



Battle of Chino, September 27, 1846. Americans under Capt. B. D. 

 Wilson all captured, and held as prisoners of war by the Mexicans until 

 January 10, 1847. 



Battle of Los Angeles, September 23, 1846.* The Mexicans made a 

 dashing assault on Gillespie's barracks, which were inside of high adobe 

 walls [about where the St. Charles hotel now stands,] and were repulsed 

 with a reported loss of eight killed and many wounded. 



*Soine accounts say this battle occurred ou the i6th, some say the23cl, some say the 28th of Septem- 

 ber. Some say four Mexicans were killed, some say eight, and some say none. I account for these dis- 

 crepancies thus: Some narrators tell of the night assault on (lillespie's barracks by the drunken mob 

 celebrating Mexican " Iiipependence Day," Sept. 16, in which none were killed, and called that "the 

 battle." Others tell of the open, da.shing assault made against the barracks on the 23d, which was re- 

 l)ulsed and the four men killed. This was really "the bailie," and the proper date, as Hittell lias it. 

 'I'lif other (our were killed on different days in the desultory fighting that was kept up, but have been 

 lumped into one day's report. Then on the ;!Sth the Mexicans had found their " Woman's Gun " and 

 were hauling it up onto Kort Hill ; but John Marshall unspiked one of the old Mexican cannon in Gil- 

 lespie's barracks, an<l a crew of his men diagged it quickly up the steep east face of Fort Hill, got in 

 position and opened fire one minute ahead of the Mexicans, <Irove theni off, and " held the fort." 

 And some call this " the battle of I,os Angeles." 



