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that was all ; and Rev. Farnsworth used it in making up the Pasadena 

 Directory part of his book, a "Southern California Paradise," published in 

 1883. 



On commencing the preparation of this Histor}^ of Pasadena, I gave 

 out by mail or personal delivery to about 130 different persons a blank pre- 

 pared for noting down such items of their first experiences here as might 

 form an interesting little historical sketch. Only eleven of them ever took 

 the trouble to fill out the blanks and return them to me ; and to these eleven 

 I devote this chapter, taking the names in alphabetical order. 



HENRY G. BENNETT. 



Came from Ann Arbor, Michigan, by way of Union Pacific and Central 

 Pacific Railroads to San Francisco, thence by boat to San Pedro, and reached 

 lyos Angeles October 23, 1873. Settled in Pasadena in Februarj^ 1874. Built 

 a two-room cottage on west side of Orange Grove Avenue, where Bellefontaine 

 Avenue now runs westward, and this pioneer house is still in use at the west 

 end of that street. It was the fourth house built in the colony. Building 

 material, fuel and provisions all had to be brought up from lyos Angeles. 

 My first crop was barley ; then wheat, corn, vegetables, and fruits. 1876- 

 77 were dry or drouth years ; wheat and barley grew only one foot high ; 

 yet during the following summer we had fruit of finest qualitj^ [It is 

 curious to note that the first four houses built in the colony were bj'^ B-men : 

 I -Bristol ; 2-Baker ; 3-C0I. Banbury ; 4-Bennett. — Ed.] 



D. M. BERRY. 



In Chapter 5 will be found a full account of Mr. Berry's first visit to 

 Rancho San Pasqual, and the part he bore in deciding the colony settlement 

 here. Mr. Berry died at San Fernando, December 22, 1887. His daugh- 

 ter, Mrs. Jessie Berry Waite, resides there ; and in a letter of September 16, 

 1874, she says of her father : "He selected the location [Pasadena] from 

 the garden spots of Southern California. He was at first much pleased 

 with Santa Barbara, but let its sleepy beauty go by, feeling assured that 

 there would be greater things 3^et in store for Pasadena, with her large val- 

 ley and fine climate." 



Mrs. Waite loaned me a scrap book which .she had made when a little 

 girl at their old home in Indianapolis ; and in it I found the following ac- 

 count of our new colony, written by Mr. Berry from L,os Angeles, May 30, 

 1874, to the hidiatiapolis Daily Journal : 



" In this valley of beauty the cabin of the writer had been built, and a 

 gallant hunter from Indianapolis, with another from Chicago, started in the 

 morning for the valley to gather venison, rabbit and quail, to inaugurate the 

 ranch house with a sumptuous feast, while the ' Secretary ' himself was to 

 arrive at sunset to join in the opening feast. But — 



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" ' In vain ! alas ! in vain, ye gallent few ! 

 From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew." 



