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Total to December 31, 1894 — 1,089. ^^^ fi^st interment ever made in 

 this cemetery was that of Mrs. Sophronia Johnson, aged forty-two, sister to 

 Samuel and Wm. Pierce ; she had died of consumption, and was buried 

 here February 6, 1883. During that year the bodies of L/aura C. Giddings, 

 Bartlett Cobb, and C. Morton Banbury were removed from Col. Banbury's 

 original home place on Orange Grove Avenue, and re-interred here ; and 

 eight other transfers were also made from private grounds to the new ceme- 

 tery, or a total of eleven during the year, so that there were only thirteen 

 deaths in Pasadenaland that year. During 1884 there were eight transfers, 

 leaving the local death roll for that year twenty-two. The cemetery com- 

 prises twenty-three acres of land ; gets its water supply from Rubio, Millard 

 and Negro canyons; and its grounds, pipes, reservoirs, buildings, etc., are 

 valued at about $30,000. 



Crematory. — In 1895 the undertaking firm of Reynolds & Van Nuys 

 built a complete cremation furnace, with all appointments complete, in the 

 Mountain View Cemetery grounds. 



Hospital. — As early as 1886-87 the question of having a hospital in 

 Pasadena began to be agitated or talked about, and various plans to this end 

 were from time to time promulgated ; but they all came to naught. In 

 1890-91 the matter was again talked up with renewed interest, and some 

 consideration was given it by the Board of Trade ; and at one time it did 

 seem as if something tangible would be done. James W. Scoville offered to 

 give $10,000 toward founding a hospital, if others would raise an equal 

 amount for it ; and Mr. Scoville even bought some eligible lots for a hospital 

 site. But the additional funds necessary were not raised ; Mr. Scoville died ; 

 and the whole project dropped out of view. 



Then, in January, 1895, Dr. Jacob S. Hodge leased rooms 10, 11, 12, 

 13, 14, in the Masonic Temple, and opened a Receiving Hospital and 

 Surgical Institute there. And this was the first thing in the way of a 

 regular hospital service that ever came into Pasadena history, although 

 there had been " Sanitariums " of many and varied sorts for a score of years 

 before. The first patient put to bed in the " Receiving Hospital " was Ted 

 Dobbins, a young man about 18 years old with a broken leg, who was 

 brought down from the Mountain View cemetery on a litter in a wagon. In 

 August and September, 1895, was built the Torrance & McGilvray block, on 

 northwest corner of Raymond Avenue and Green street, and its second and 

 third stories were planned and built purposely for Dr. Hodge's Receiving 

 Hospital, with every provision in the latest and best style for comfort, con- 

 venience, sanitary safeguard, etc., of patients — even to air and sun baths on 

 the oriental roof-floor, reached by elevator. 



PASADENA'S HISTORIC HOTELS. 



The IvAke Vineyard House. — This was the first building ever erected 

 in Pasadena intended for use as a hotel, and was built by a Mr. Griswold 



