I20 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



following June we set out 300 two-year-old orange trees west of the house. 

 A few months later grasshoppers came. We bought a lot of muslin and 

 Doctor and I covered every tree and saved them. Our thirty acres were all 

 set to oranges, grapes, and a full variety of deciduous fruits. Our first 

 raisins were cured by hanging the large bunches of grapes on nails driven 

 along the south side of the house and covering them with mosquito netting. 

 Our daughter, I^ulu N. Conger, born August 4, 1875, was the second child 

 born in Pasadena — the first one being a daughter of the Wentworth family 

 then living on the Joseph Wallace place. Mr. Wentworth went back east 

 soon after the grasshopper raid, saying he was tired of wearing old clothes 

 with no money in his pocket. He had formerly been a railroad conductor. 



JUDGE Eaton's narrative. 



I arrived in California in Augusc, 1850, coming across the plains on 

 horseback, with ox teams to haul our provisions. Came to L,os Angeles in 

 the autumn of 1851, by sea, on a little tug boat called the " Ohio," from San 

 Francisco.* It took four days to steam down the coast. Came onto the 

 San Pasqual ranch, the present site of Pasadena, in December, 1858. [A 

 part of this narrative, pertaining to his temporary occupancy of the old 

 Garfias adobe ranch house, from December, 1858, till July, 1859, is embodied 

 in Chapter IV., Division i, which see. He left the ranch in 1859, and did 

 not return to it until February, 1865. — Ed.] 



I must here recur to a little history foreign to myself personally, as it 

 involves the incipient steps toward turning this ranch from a stock range 

 into the thriving, beautiful city that it now is. 



After the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston [Confederate Gen- 

 eral], his widow determined to remain here ; and her brother Dr. Grifiin re- 

 quested her to visit San Pasqual ranch and select a spot for her future home. 

 She fixed upon the spot now known as " Fair Oaks " — the property of J. F. 

 Crank [1894]. Accordingly a square mile of the ranch, including that 

 spot, was segregated and a partition made of the lands (for in the meantime 

 B. D. Wilson had become the owner of an undivided one-half interest ),t Mrs. 

 Johnston thereby becoming the owner of the Fair Oaks property, and B. I). 

 Wilson owner of what is now the Allen estate. Mrs. Johnston immediately 

 built a comfortable but unpretentious cottage for her home. This was the 

 second house built on the ranch. | She first occupied it with her family 

 about Christmas, 1862. The following May the loss of her oldest son, 

 Albert, i^ a young man of splendid promise, destroyed her plans, and in a 



*In 1851 there was seemingly some danger of a general revolt of Mexicans against American rule, 

 and a company of volunteer troops was formed, under Gen J. H. Bean. B. S. Eaton was one of the cor- 

 porals in this company.— [.S>f Ceuteimial Hisioiv of Los Angeles County.] 



fit was in 1.S58 that Dr. (Inffui had loaned (iarfias $8, 000, but tliis transaction did not appear of 

 record ; heiiue c'.arfias's first deed of the entire ranch was made to B. D. Wilson, Jan. 15, 1859, as shown 

 in my sketch ol the ' Chain of Title." on page 74. But just when and how Wilson and Grifiin arranged 

 their undivided joint ownership I failed to find. — Ed. 



{This is a mistake. The Jose Perez adobe house on south .slope of Raymond hill was built in 1S39. 

 IJona Encarnacion Abila built an adobe house for Caniacho, her mnjor doino, in 1844. near the Garfias 

 spring. Carlos Hanawald and John Pine, the gold hunters, built tlieir adobe ca'iin at foot of llauaford's 

 bluff, in 1850-51. Garfias built his great adobe ranch house in 1853. Mrs. Johnston's house came next, in 

 1862. 



^In the explosion of the little steamer, Ada Hancock, April 2(), 1863, near Wilmington, among 

 many lost were, of our merchants, Wm. T. H, Sanford, Dr. Henry K. Miles, Loeb Schlessinger; with 

 Capt. Thomas Workman, the young Alhkkt Siijnkv Johnston, son of General Albert Sidney Johnston. 

 Miss Medora Hereford, sister-in-law of lion B D Wilson, died soon after of injuries recei'v. d in this 

 deplorable ca\a\\\\iy . — Cr ute 11 n in/ //isl. I. us .■\>is:elfs toiiiitv, f-^7- 



