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Eaton, Belle Eaton, Will Eaton, George Eaton, Ben. Eaton, Jennie Banbury, 

 Jessie Banbury, Agnes Elliott, Whit. Elliott, Howard Conger, Florence Ed- 

 wards, Forest Edwards ; Joseph M. Wilson, Belle B. Wilson, children of 

 John W. Wilson ; and Charles and Maggie Wilson, children of John Bunyan 

 Wilson. The Eaton children then resided at Fair Oaks (now Hon. J. F. 

 Crank's place), over three miles from the school-house ; and the Wilson 

 children resided about two and half miles up the Arroyo on the Ea Canyada 

 road. 



For the school year of 1875-76 a Mrs. Rodgers was engaged ; but after 

 two weeks' work her health failed, and Miss Eugenia Rudisill conducted 

 the school through this and the next year — 1876-77. Meanwhile, in the 

 winter of 1875 76 a neighborhood literary society had been formed. These 

 colonists had come together mostly as strangers to each other, from many 

 different sections of the country, and needed some common center for both 

 social and intellectual intercourse and cultivation of acquaintanceship ; and 

 the literary society furnished such a gregarian center for the neighborhood 

 by holding meetings once a month in the school-house. Very soon more 

 room was needed, and the young men of the colony took the matter in 

 hand and built an additional room to the school building. The literary 

 society's meetings were made up of formal debates ; topical papers with 

 discussion following ; recitations, essays, music ; mock trials ; a local paper 

 called "The Reservoir," written up to suit the occasion [See Chapter 7] ; etc.; 

 and there was thus brought out an amount of talent for writing and speak- 

 ing that astonished the people themselves. 



In 1876 the Eake Vineyard Colony was commenced on the west side of 

 Fair Oaks Avenue, with L. D. Hollingsworth as the leading figure in the 

 movement for its settlement, as is fully explained in Chapter 5. He intended 

 to build a store and start a trading center or village on the high ground 

 at the corner of Colorado street and Marengo Avenue, because that was the 

 most sightly place for it, but the west side people made earnest appeal to 

 have it not so far from them, but at least on the line between the two col- 

 onies ; and as the population was then mostly on the west side, Mr. Hol- 

 lingsworth yielded the point, and built his store near the corner of Fair 

 Oaks and Colorado street. It was in April, 1875, that the name Pasadena 

 had been officially adopted ; but even before that a petition was forwarded 

 to Washington for a new postoffice by that name, which was granted March 

 15, 1875, with Josiah Eocke named as postmaster. He declined to serve on 

 the small salary of twelve dollars per year. Then Henry T. Hollingsworth 

 was appointed to the place, and he thus became Pasadena's first bona fide 

 postmaster. This settled the postoffice to be kept in the Hollingsworth 

 store ; then J. H. Baker moved his colony blacksmith shop from west Wal- 

 nut street down here ; and a Mr. Watson started a meat market ; and other 

 kinds of business began to gather around this point. 



