228 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



sessor, and served continuously for nine years. At the fall election this 

 year Maj. Erie lyocke was elected justice of the peace for San Gabriel town- 

 ship ; and A. O. Bristol was elected constable, but declined to serve. 



In 1878 Dr. T. B. Elliott and P. M. Green were delegates from Pasa- 

 dena to the republican congressional district convention ; and Mr. Green 

 here made his maiden effort in politics by offering a resolution in favor of 

 civil service reform, which was adopted by the convention. 



In 1879 P. G. Wooster was appointed deputy sheriff for Pasadena, 

 under county sheriff H. M. Mitchell, and was thus the first constabulary 

 officer of the new settlement. He was re-appointed deputy by sheriff W. 

 R. Rowland in 1880. 



In 1879 (special election) P. M. Green was nominated and elected as- 

 semblyman ; and this was Pasadena's first elective achievement in the politi- 

 cal field. The voting this year was at the Central School-house. Mr. 

 Green received 109 votes, and the democratic candidate received six. 



In 1882 J. F. Crank, another Pasadena republican, was elected to the 

 assembly ; and Gen. Geo. Stoneman, democrat, was elected governor. But 

 I still found no record or report of any political club here. The Pasadena 

 vote in 1882 was, republican 136; democrat 30. The vote of San Gabriel 

 was, 73 republican and 119 democrat. 



On March 29, 1884, a republican club was organized, with Col. J. Ban- 

 bury as president, and Ben E. Ward secretary ; and Banbury, Ward, and 

 H. W. Magee were appointed delegates to a convention at Los Angeles for 

 choosing delegates to the State convention, and to decide on who Los An- 

 geles county would support for nomination as the republican candidate for 

 congress in the Sixth District. On this latter question four ballots were 

 had at Los Angeles, the last of which stood : for H. H. Markham, 78 ; for 

 Judge W. A. Cheney, 40 ; for E. F. Spence, 16. Then it was made unani- 

 mous for Markham ; and Spence, Cheney, Magee, and others were ap- 

 pointed a committee to inform him of the result. Magee was appointed 

 one of the delegates to the State convention at Sacramento ; and there on 

 July 23, 1884, Markham was nominated by the sixth district caucus, and 

 ratified by the convention. 



September 19 the Pasadena republican club or caucus appointed dele- 

 gates to the county nominating convention, as follows : H. W. Magee, J. 

 Banbury,. J. W. Wood, O. R. Dougherty, T. P. Lukens. The convention 

 was in session two days, September 24 and 25. J. W. Wood was one of its 

 secretaries. Magee was nominated for assemblyman. He went on making 

 the canvass ; but the last week in October he discovered that it required a 

 three years' residence in the State to be eligible for this office, and he had 

 only come here in 1883 — hence was ineligible. He at once resigned the 

 candidacy, and Col. J. Banbury was put on the ticket in his place, and was 

 elected. 



