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gables of many styles ; villa combinations, haciendas, bays and towers 

 in great variety. In fact most of our local architects have seemed to catch 

 the spirit of the field as stamped by Mr. Ridgway, and tried to produce 

 something distinctly and worthily Pasadenian in architecture, in which 

 a few have succeeded. [A list of 100 buildings showing architectural types 

 I was obliged to omit for want of space]. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Pasadena in Poi^iTics. — Political Clubs and Party Representatives. — National and 

 City Election Tables. — Pasadena Men in High Office. — Story of the Postoffice for 

 twenty years. 



PASADENA IN POLITICS. 



There were twenty-seven members of the original San Gabriel Orange 

 Grove Association who selected and took possession of their several propor- 

 tions of the colony lands on Jan. 27, 1874. Of these twenty-seven founders of 

 Pasadena five were democrats, namely, Judge B. S. Katon the president, A. 

 O. Bristol, A. W. Hutton, Ney Strickland and Henry G. Bennett ; all the 

 rest were republicans. But these five were not necessarily lonesome, for 

 nearly all the old settlers around were democrats, such as Gen. Stoneman, 

 Col. Kewen, Hon. B. D. Wilson, J. DeBarth Shorb, Col. Winston, John W. 

 Wilson, Jesus Rubio, etc. For all political or voting purposes the Rancho 

 San Pasqual was only a part of San Gabriel township.* Our colonists, 

 however* took measures at once to be formed into a new school district ; and 

 the first election ever held in Pasadena was for school directors, on Saturday, 

 September 12, 1874. Ten votes were cast, and unanimous choice was made 

 of Col. J. Banbury, H. G. Bennett and Dr. W. W. Edwards. No voting 

 except school elections occured here until 1876, when the San Pasqual school 

 district was allowed to vote as a separate election precinct of San Gabriel 

 township. And at the presidential election that year the polling place was 

 at the original colony school-house on lower Orange Grove Avenue, only a 

 few days before its removal to the central school lot, this latter event taking 

 place November 10, 1876. This was the year of Hayes's election as presi- 

 dent ; and out of a dozen old settlers whom I consulted only J. H. Baker 

 remembered how the vote stood. He gives it as Republican, 60 ; Demo- 

 crat, 5 ; Greenbacker, 2. Total, 67. 



Early in 1875 I. N. Mundell was appointed road overseer for the school 

 district ; and in 1876 he was succeeded by A. O. Bristol. 



In March, 1877, Henry G. Bennett was appointed deputy county as- 



* On Aug. 7, 1851, S=in Gabriel township was created by order of the Court of Sessions, and was to 

 include besides the Mission, " the Ranchos San Pasqual, Santa Anita, Andres Duarte, Azusa, La Puente, 

 Las Coyotes, Nietos with all its lines of boundary, Cienega, Mission Vieja with all its lines of boundary. 

 The residence of the authorities is in San Gabriel."— OW records, as cited by Bancroft. 



