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From the records, as will be seen, the office of Pasadena was first es- 

 tablished March 15, 1875, and was afterward on December 30, 1875, Discon- 

 tinued; and was re-established September 21, 1876. The office was made 

 third-class [appointment vested in the President] on the appointment of 

 Albert O. Bristol, July 31, 1885. R. A. Maxwell, 



4th Asst. P. M. General. 



The original colonists had set out to establish their business center in 

 the vicinity of Orange Grove Avenue amd California street. [See oak tree 

 cut, page 167.] The school-house was first built there, and the first two 

 churches were in that vicinity. The name Pasadena was formally adopted 

 by the colony Association on April 22, 1875; but it seems to have been 

 agreed upon in the petition for a postoffice prior to this action, for the date 

 March 15, 1875, is given when the name first appears in the records at 

 Washington. Josiah lyOcke (uncle to Seymour Locke, now a well-known 

 businCvSS man of Pasadena), who was first named as postmaster, then owned 

 and occupied thirty-five acres along the north side of California street 

 where the Garfield school and Congregational church now stand, and up to 

 Orange Grove Avenue. The postmaster's salary was set at twelve dollars 

 per year. Mr. lyOcke declined to serve.* No reports were made to the De- 

 partment, for nobodj' else seemed willing to incur so much care and respon- 

 sibility for so little pay ; and accordingly the whole record at Washington 

 was canceled, and Pasadena as a postoffice name was snuffed out. 



Meanwhile the new settlement east of Fair Oaks Avenue had been de- 

 veloping rapidly ; and L. D. Hollingsworth had erected a small building of 

 up-and-down rough boards, making a room 20x30 feet, where McDonald, 

 Brooks & Co.'s office now stands — No. 7 East Colorado street. Here he 

 opened a small store to accommodate the settlers, so they would not have to 

 go or send to Los Angeles for every little purchase of family supplies. But 

 a postoffice? Where was the self-sacrificing individual who would be wil- 

 ling to serve as postmaster for One Dollar per month ? Young Henry T. 

 Hollingsworth finally came to the rescue, threw himself in the breach and 

 "filled a long-felt want." He was going to open a watchmaker and jewel- 

 er's window in his father's store, and so he consented to act as postmaster. 

 Accordingly a new petition for mail service was sent to Washington, and 

 Pasadena was revived or re-established as a postoffice, with H. T. Hollings- 

 worth as postmaster, September 21, 1876. D. M. Graham was then here as 

 an invalid, and had taken to driving his two-horse buggy daily between 

 the colony and Los Angeles, partly as an out-door recreation for his own 

 health, and partly as an accommodation for the settlers and their winter visit- 

 ors. And he took the contract to carry the mail on this new route, thus be- 

 coming the first official who ever made a mail delivery in Pasadena. Yet I 



*Mr. Locke died at Indianapolis, Ind., March 5, 18S5. He had been connected with several news- 

 paper enterprises in his life ; and in a biographical sketch of him the Indianapolis fouynal said : " He 

 spent a couple of years in California and planted an orange grove at Pasadena, which he sold but a few 

 weeks ago [to H. W. Magee], the grove costing him $2,500 and selling for $[7,500. He was for about a 

 year in Chicago, as manager of The Advance [the Congregationalist paper]." 



