502 HISTORY OF PASADKNA. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Fraternity. — Secret Orders — Patriotic, Fraternal, Reformatory, Beneficiary, Indus- 

 trial. 



PATRIOTIC ORDERS. 



John F. Godfrey Post No. 93, Grand Army of the Re- 

 public; Departmetit of California. 



After several informal talks among old soldiers about forming 

 an organization, a meeting was called for Tuesday evening, Nov- 

 ember 3, 1885, at Craig & Hubbard's store, then in a frame 

 building on west side of South Fair Oaks Avenue There were 

 present at that meeting J. D. Gilchrist, E. S. Frost, W. T. Knight, Geo. 

 A. Black, Geo. W. Barnhart, J. Ellis, R. B. Hubbard, W. H. Eordan, 

 Wesley Bunnell, A. Wakeley, A. O. Bristol, W. J. Barcus, A. K. McQuilling, 

 and Edson Turner ; and the necessary steps were taken to go forward and 

 organize a Post. 



The next meeting was held and organization completed in Library hall, 

 November 28, 1885. [The old original Eibrary building then stood on south 

 side of East Colorado street nearly where the Santa Fe railroad now runs, 

 but was afterward moved to Dayton street where it still remains, being now 

 changed into a dwelling house.] At this meeting the question of a name 

 came up ; and after sundry suggestions which did not seem to hit the mark; 

 E. S. Frost moved the name of Col. John F. Godfrey, who had then re- 

 cently died in Eos Angeles, and it was adopted. Col. Godfrey was born at 

 Bangor, Maine. He enlisted as a private in 1861, and was chosen second 

 lieutenant in the Maine 2nd Battery ; won promotion to Eieutenant-Colonel 

 in the field. Resigned in 1864 on account of broken health. Re-enlisted in 

 1865 and was sent in command of scouts with Gen. Sully's campaign 

 against the Sioux Indians. In 1874 he settled in Eos Angeles as a lawyer, 

 soon rose to distinction, and was twice elected city attorney there. When 

 the Pasadena colonists held their second anniversary picnic under the great 

 oaks of Eincoln Park, January 27, 1876, Col. Godfrey was one of the prin- 

 cipal speakers [p. 112], being thus historically associated with Pasadena in its 

 tender infancy ; and now his name being adopted by the G. A. R. (and later 

 by the Woman's Relief Corps) adds more enduring links to the chain of his- 

 toric kinship. [He died at Eos Angeles June 27, 1885.] After the name had 

 been decided on, comrade Horace Bell of Los Angeles proceeded as muster- 

 ing officer to muster in the following charter members : C. C. Brown, Alfred 

 Wakeley, A. K. McQuilling, F. J. Woodbury, W. J. Barcus, W. H. Eordan, 

 Wesley Bunnell, Milo J. Green, Geo. A. Black, E. S. Frost, Jehu Ellis, 

 John B. Hill, J. D. Youngclaus, Eyman Allen, J. D. Gilchrist. 



Although this was November 28, the Post charter bears date Decem- 

 ber 23, 1885. The first officers installed were : Gilchrist, Post Commander; 



