360 HISTORY OF PASADKNA. 



mother's maiden name was Maylen, and she was a direct descendant from 

 Lord Maylen Chamberlain of Coventry, England, and inherited property 

 from him. Mrs. Burnham's only daughter, now deceased, was named 

 Mary Maylen Burnham ; and from these facts came the name of this street. 



Mentor Avenue. — Opened in 1886 by Ed. Karris and Dr. G. Roscoe 

 Thomas. Their wives were both born at Mentor, Ohio, and were school- 

 mates there in their girlhood ; and this was the reason for so naming the 

 street. But Mentor had also become famous as the home place of Presi- 

 dent Garfield ; and Mrs. Thomas's father was a member of the state legis- 

 lature with Garfield when the latter commenced his remarkable and noble 

 political career. 



Mercer Street. — Opened by J. H. Fleming, and named from his native 

 town, Mercer, in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. From there also he enlisted 

 as a Union soldier in the 5th Pennsylvania infantry regiment. 



Millard Avemte.^O-pened and named by E. Millard, one of the early 

 city councilmen. 



Mill Street. — This was originally only a private driveway from Colo" 

 rado street to A. F. Mills's cottage, which he had built in part from the 

 original colony school house that had been moved from below California 

 street on Orange Grove Avenue up to the 5 -acre school lot donated by B. D. 

 Wilson at the business center. In 1884, when Martin Mullins opened Kansas 

 street through the middle of his 7 -acre tract, he opened an alley for rear 

 access to his business lots fronting on Fair Oaks Avenue, and this connected 

 with Mr. Mills's private driveway, so that there was a passage clear through 

 from Colorado to Kansas street, and it was commonly called Mills's drive 

 or Mills street. But in January, 1886, Messrs. A. Pickard and H. M. Porter 

 started a feed mill in a rough frame building on the east side of this alley or 

 driveway ; and Mr. Mills says it took its record name of " Mill street" from 

 this pioneer mill, and not from his name. 



Moline Avenue. — Opened by Hon. B. D. Wilson, and originally called 

 El Molino [the Mill] Avenue, from the El Molino ranch or home place of 

 Col. E. J. C. Kewen, now owned by K. E- Mayberry, — where the historic 

 old mill built by the Mission Fathers is still standing, and much visited by 

 relic hunting tourists. [See page 42.] 



Mulberry Street. — Opened by A. Ninde, in 1886, and named from Mul- 

 berry street in Baltimore, Maryland, his boyhood home. 



Mundell Drive. — Opened and named by I. N. Mundell, the first city 

 marshal of Pasadena. 



Oakland Aveyiue. — This street was named at a meeting held in the 

 office of the Eyman Allen Eand Co., in 1886, of parties interested in getting 

 it opened clear through from Colorado to California street, but which was 

 not accomplished. There were some fine old oak trees along its line, and as 

 a compromise tie-up between these and Oakland, California, the name was 

 adopted. [Finally opened through in 1895.] 



