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we compromised on this new trick style of express wagon. I wore cowhide 

 shoes, usually run down at the heel ; a checked cotton shirt ; and blue jeans 

 pants that were rather short, so that my ankles and cotton socks were 

 exposed. These were badges of bachhood and wifeless independence. One 

 day I begged a dog from a shepherd going by with his flock, named him 

 " Watch," and he stuck to me closer than a brother. 



My shanty was one of the very first put up on the Lake Vineyard side. 

 At the same time old Mr. Hollingsworth built his house ; and Mr. Lowe 

 built the Roger Plant house on Marengo Avenue ; Mr. Vore built a board 

 cottage ; and Mrs. R. H. Martin built a board cottage of two or three rooms 

 on the E. C. Webster place. One moonlight night in the month of July, 

 1875, I slept in the Martin cottage, with only a grass hammock and a thick 

 traveling shawl for bedding, and I nearly froze to death before morning. 

 How the coyotes did howl that night ! and other nights, too, when I 

 slept in my own shanty there where the big pepper tree is, in front of Hotel 

 Green. By the way, my wife planted that pepper tree there in 1880. 



I came to Southern California for my health. In the East I was much 

 afflicted with catarrh, and my bronchial tubes were badly clogged. Life 

 was a burden ; I had no ambition and was not able to work. After coming 

 here I had a severe siege with rheumatism, then began to improve rapidly 

 and soon was able to labor hard every day. And have enjoyed pretty good 

 health ever since. 



WHERE THE OLD SETTLERS CAME FROM. 

 A few months ago a San Francisco paper spoke of Pasadena as a place 

 'originally settled by a lot of Puritans from New England" — a statement, 

 widely incorrect, as my following syllabus will show. When an Old 

 Settlers' Association was talked of, twelve or thirteen years ago, it was 

 commonly agreed that persons who came here prior to and during the year 

 1880, should be reckoned as " Old Settlers," anyway, whether later arrivals 

 were counted in or not ; and upon that basis I have compiled the following 

 list of names, years and places, both for its own historic interest, and as a 

 guide list for a Pasadena Pioneer Society which may possibly spring up 

 some day yet. For convenience of reference I give the names in alphabeti- 

 cal order rather than the order of successive years, and have marked with 

 a star tho.se who were members of the original Orange Grove Colony 

 Association : 



PASADENA OLD SETTLERS — 1870 TO 1880. 



Allen, Lyman, M. D 1880... Missouri, formerly Ohio. 



Allen, Wm 1879... England. 



Baker, Edwin 1 874. . . Pennsylvania. 



*Baker, John H 1873... Indiana. 



Ball, Benjamin F 1878. ..Iowa, formerly Ohio. 



*Banbury, Jabez 1874... Iowa. 



