igS HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



of the board of Trustees for 1894-95, are: Hon. P. M. Green, President; 

 E. L. Conger, D. D., Vice-President; Frank J. Polley, Secretary; C. B. 

 Scoville, Teasurer. 



"The members of the Board of Trustees are: Hon. P. M. Green, 

 K. E. Spalding, Mrs. Ellen I. Stanton, Mrs. Eouise T. W. Conger, Hon. 

 Enoch Knight, Hon. T. P. Eukens, W. E. Arthur, Esq., John Wadsworth, 

 C. B. Scoville, Esq., President C. H. Keyes, Norman Bridge, M. D., Hon. 

 W. E. Hardison, E. E. Conger, D. D., C. D. Daggett." 



Executive Board for 1895-96: Hon. P. M. Green, chairman; C. D. 

 Daggett, John Wadsworth, W. E. Arthur, Rev. Dr. Conger. 



LIFE OF FATHER THROOP. 



As a fitting addition to this historical sketch of the Throop Polytechnic 

 Institute, I give here a brief biography of its founder, who is more truly 

 loved by the people of Pasadena than any other man who has ever lived 

 here. Prof. Eowe is honored and admired ; " Father Throop" is loved and 

 revered with an affectionate tenderness born in us from his own great love 

 toward his fellow-men. 



Hon. Amos G. Throop was born in De Ruyter, Madison county. New 

 York, July 22, 1811. The most of his boyhood was spent in Courtland and 

 Chenango counties. New York. In May, 1832, he left Chenango county 

 for Michigan, the then far west, settling in St. Clair county. In 1838 he 

 returned to his native State, and at Preston was united in marriage with 

 Miss Eliza V. Waite. He and his wife returned to his home in Michigan, 

 where they remained until 1843, in which year they removed to Chicago, 

 where they resided until 1880. He was one of the organizers of the Chi- 

 cago Board of Trade, and a member of it for many years. In 1849 Mr. 

 Throop was elected an alderman of the city of Chicago, serving four years. 

 In 1854 and 1855 he was appointed assessor for West Chicago. In 1855 ^'^ 

 was elected city treasurer for a term of two years, during which time he 

 handled over $5,000,000 of the city funds. Mr. Throop served five years as 

 a member of the Board of Supervisors of Cook county, and for two years 

 was a member of the state legislature of Illinois. In 1876 he was again 

 elected alderman, and served the city in that capacity for four years. 



He came to California in 1880, locating in Los Angeles, where he re- 

 mained until 1886, when he removed to Pasadena. In 1888 Mr. and Mrs. 

 Throop celebrated their golden wedding. From 1888 to 1892 he served 

 Pasadena as a member of her city council, being also Mayor of the city for 

 the last two years of his term. 



PASSED AWAY. 



On Thursday, March 22, 1894, he worked until about noon setting out 

 some flowering plants at the Polytechnic grounds. Then he went home, 

 feeling sick from a chronic ulceration of the stomach with which he had 

 long been a sufferer ; and at 8:10 in the evening he passed away as quietly 

 and peacefully as a child falls asleep. His wife and daughter [Mrs. J. C 

 Vaughan] were in Chicago, and his brother, John Throop, at his own home 

 below Eos Angeles, and they were summoned by telegraph. The next day 





