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F. Spence in 1885</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">17th <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Los_Angeles" title="Mayor of Los Angeles">Mayor of Los Angeles</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 9, 1884 – December 14, 1886</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cameron_E._Thom" title="Cameron E. Thom">Cameron E. Thom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_H._Workman" title="William H. Workman">William H. Workman</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Los_Angeles_City_Council" title="President of the Los Angeles City Council">President of the Los Angeles Common Council</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 11, 1880 – December 10, 1881</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_B._Lawlor" title="William B. Lawlor">William B. Lawlor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_P._Moran" title="John P. Moran">John P. Moran</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">December 22, 1832<br /><a href="/wiki/Enniskillen" title="Enniskillen">Enniskillen</a>, Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 19, 1892<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend dday deathdate">1892-09-20</span>)</span> (aged 59)<br /><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edward Falles Spence</b> (December 22, 1832 – September 19, 1892) was a banker, entrepreneur and property developer who was a member of the California legislature, a Nevada County official and the mayor of Los Angeles from 1884 to 1886. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal">Personal</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Falles_Spence&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Personal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spence was born on December 22, 1832, in <a href="/wiki/Enniskillen" title="Enniskillen">Enniskillen</a>, Ireland, the son of Gabriel Spence. He was educated there by private tutors, and at the age of 20 he emigrated to America and worked on a farm near <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, for several months, then shipped to California via the <a href="/wiki/Maritime_history_of_California#To_California_via_Nicaragua" title="Maritime history of California">Nicaragua route</a>, arriving in San Francisco in December 1852. He spent some twenty years in <a href="/wiki/Northern_California" title="Northern California">Northern California</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, settling in <a href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After some years spent in San Jose and San Diego, he returned to Ireland in 1872, where he married his second wife, Anna Maria Spence, who was from <a href="/wiki/Fivemiletown" title="Fivemiletown">Five Mile Town, County Tyrone, Ireland</a>. He returned with his bride to the newly established Monrovia. Together they had four children, William Glenn, George Edward, Albert Harry and Kathleen.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had two other children, Nellie J. and J. Porter, from his first wife. </p><p>Spence died of <a href="/wiki/Cardiomyopathy" title="Cardiomyopathy">heart failure</a> September 19, 1892, in the home of a friend, John A. Fairchild, on Burlington Avenue<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> near Ninth Street, in today's <a href="/wiki/Westlake,_Los_Angeles" title="Westlake, Los Angeles">Westlake district</a>, Los Angeles. He was 59 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The September 22 <a href="/wiki/Obsequies" class="mw-redirect" title="Obsequies">obsequies</a>, which began in the family home on Burlington Avenue, were said to be "in point of attendance one of the largest ever held in this city" and the funeral procession to <a href="/wiki/Evergreen_Cemetery_(Los_Angeles)" title="Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles)">Evergreen Cemetery</a> "one of the largest ever witnessed."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vocation">Vocation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Falles_Spence&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Vocation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spence gained his knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Business_administration" title="Business administration">business affairs</a> through assisting his father in the management of the family's large farming <a href="/wiki/Land_lot" title="Land lot">tracts</a> and herds of cattle in Ireland. He engaged in <a href="/wiki/Mining" title="Mining">mining</a> In Northern California and Nevada, but in San Jose he "controlled an extensive <a href="/wiki/Pharmaceutical_marketing#History" title="Pharmaceutical marketing">drug business</a>" and then switched to <a href="/wiki/Banking" class="mw-redirect" title="Banking">banking</a>. As well, he was one of the organizers of the Commercial Bank of San Diego.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1875 Spence was named <a href="/wiki/Cashier#Accountancy" title="Cashier">cashier</a> of the Commercial Bank of Los Angeles, organized by <a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Hollenbeck" title="John Edward Hollenbeck">John Edward Hollenbeck</a> and reorganized in 1880 as the Commercial State Bank, the forerunner of the <a href="/wiki/Security_Pacific_Bank" title="Security Pacific Bank">First National Bank of Los Angeles</a>, of which Spence became president in 1881. He held interest in other banks as well, and owned property in <a href="/wiki/Whittier,_California" title="Whittier, California">Whittier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Monrovia,_California" title="Monrovia, California">Monrovia</a>, California.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spence was also responsible for building the first <a href="/wiki/Horse_car" class="mw-redirect" title="Horse car">horse car</a> line across the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_River" title="Los Angeles River">Los Angeles River</a> and, in 1886, financing the first <a href="/wiki/History_of_electric_trams" class="mw-redirect" title="History of electric trams">electric car line</a> in Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_service">Public service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Falles_Spence&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Public service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Republican, Spence was elected to the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California State Assembly</a> from <a href="/wiki/Nevada_County,_California" title="Nevada County, California">Nevada County</a> in 1860<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was later the treasurer of that <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of the United States">county</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ALeadingCitizen_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALeadingCitizen-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 5, 1879, Spence was elected to represent the 3rd <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district" title="Electoral district">Ward</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Common_Council" title="Los Angeles Common Council">Los Angeles Common Council</a>, the legislative branch of the city government, and he served until December 10, 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was mayor of the city from December 9, 1884, to December 14, 1886, and under his mayoralty the city reorganized the <a href="/wiki/Police_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Police Department">Police Department</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Fire_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire Department">Fire Department</a> and placed all the personnel on <a href="/wiki/Salary" title="Salary">salary</a>. In his final year as mayor, the city retired its last <i>zanja</i>, or open <a href="/wiki/Ditch" title="Ditch">fresh-water ditch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="University_of_Southern_California">University of Southern California</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Falles_Spence&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: University of Southern California"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Spence was one of the founders of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California#History" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was then called Methodist College, and he was on its <a href="/wiki/Board_of_directors" title="Board of directors">board of directors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He promised to donate some of his property, "including the lot at the corner of Pearl and Sixth streets (on which the Gates Hotel now stands)" to USC so that it might be sold and the proceeds used to place a telescope on the summit of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Wilson_(California)" title="Mount Wilson (California)">Mount Wilson</a>. University President <a href="/wiki/Marion_M._Bovard" class="mw-redirect" title="Marion M. Bovard">Marion M. Bovard</a> ordered a lens from the Cambridge manufactory Alvan Clark & Sons, but Spence died before the deal could be completed, so Bovard had to sell the glass to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another source said that Spence had agreed to give the cash sum of $50,000 to fund the telescope project,<sup id="cite_ref-ALeadingCitizen_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALeadingCitizen-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it was later reported that the gift was indeed in the form of land that eventually lost its value and the USC contract with "a French firm for a forty-inch telescope, the largest in the world", had to be canceled.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_and_notes">References and notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Falles_Spence&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References and notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-LibraryFile-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/16/451250.pdf">Clare Wallace, Los Angeles Public Library biographical file, with references as cited there</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/westlake/?q=W+9th+St+&lat=34.0518815&lng=-118.2754626&g=Geocodify">Location of the Spence home</a> on <i>Mapping L.A.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/163611206">"A Public Loss"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, September 20, 1892, page 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/163573971">"Laid to Rest: Impressive Funeral Services of the Late E.F. Spence"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, September 23, 1892, page 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/10341">E.F. Spence</a>, JoinCalifornia.com.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ALeadingCitizen-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ALeadingCitizen_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ALeadingCitizen_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/163580577">"A Leading Citizen Stricken Down"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, September 20, 1892, page 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938</i>, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the <a href="/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration" title="Works Progress Administration">Works Progress Administration</a>."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/16/451250.pdf">"Final Rites Held for Anna M. Spence, Ex-Mayor's Widow"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Herald-Express</i>, June 26, 1937 (scroll down).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harris Newmark, <i>Sixty Years in Southern California</i> (1916).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/163905027">"The Spence Observatory"</a>, <i>San Francisco Post</i>, reprinted in <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, December 13, 1896, page 19.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output 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Shaw">Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fletcher_Bowron" title="Fletcher Bowron">Bowron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norris_Poulson" title="Norris Poulson">Poulson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Yorty" title="Sam Yorty">Yorty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Bradley_(mayor)" title="Tom Bradley (mayor)">Bradley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Riordan" title="Richard Riordan">Riordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hahn" title="James Hahn">Hahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Villaraigosa" title="Antonio Villaraigosa">Villaraigosa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Garcetti" title="Eric Garcetti">Garcetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Bass" title="Karen Bass">Bass</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Seal of Los Angeles, CA"><img alt="Seal of Los Angeles, CA" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg/100px-Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg/150px-Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg/200px-Seal_of_Los_Angeles.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1024" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Members_of_the_Los_Angeles_Common_Council_(1850–1889)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #FCC200;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:LosAngelesCommonCouncil" title="Template:LosAngelesCommonCouncil"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:LosAngelesCommonCouncil" title="Template talk:LosAngelesCommonCouncil"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:LosAngelesCommonCouncil" title="Special:EditPage/Template:LosAngelesCommonCouncil"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Members_of_the_Los_Angeles_Common_Council_(1850–1889)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Members of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Common_Council" title="Los Angeles Common Council">Los Angeles Common Council</a> (1850–1889)</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background: #FCC200;"><div><b>Presidents:</b> <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_W._Alexander" title="David W. Alexander">Alexander</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Requena" title="Manuel Requena">Requena</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Mellus" title="Francis Mellus">Mellus</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/John_G._Nichols" title="John G. Nichols">Nichols</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_Drown" title="Ezra Drown">Drown</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_F._Coronel" title="Antonio F. Coronel">Coronel</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Nehemiah_A._Potter" title="Nehemiah A. Potter">Potter</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Abel_Stearns" title="Abel Stearns">Sterns</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_Woodworth" title="Wallace Woodworth">Woodworth</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Sr." title="Joseph Huber Sr.">Huber</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Perry_(businessman)" title="William H. Perry (businessman)">Perry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Morrison" title="Murray Morrison">Morrison</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/John_King_(Los_Angeles_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John King (Los Angeles politician)">King</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/John_Jones_and_Doria_Deighton-Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="John Jones and Doria Deighton-Jones">Jones</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/H.K.S._O%27Melveny" class="mw-redirect" title="H.K.S. O'Melveny">O'Melveny</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Sabichi" title="Frank Sabichi">Sabichi</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Prudent_Beaudry" title="Prudent Beaudry">Beaudry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_A._MacDougall" title="Frederick A. MacDougall">MacDougall</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Cohn_(politician)" title="Bernard Cohn (politician)">Cohn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Beck" title="Samuel J. Beck">Beck</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Lawlor" title="William B. Lawlor">Lawlor</a></li><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spence</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/John_P._Moran" title="John P. Moran">Moran</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott_Moore" title="Walter Scott Moore">Moore</a></li><li>Miles</li><li><a href="/wiki/Hiram_Sinsabaugh" title="Hiram Sinsabaugh">Sinsabaugh</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Newton_Breed" title="Levi Newton Breed">Breed</a></li><li>Humphreys</li><li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Kuhrts" title="Jacob Kuhrts">Kuhrts</a></li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="padding:0px"><table class="navbox-columns-table" style="border-spacing: 0px; text-align:left;width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">Members <br /> (1850–1870)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cristobal_Aguilar" title="Cristobal Aguilar">Cristobal Aguilar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_W._Alexander" title="David W. Alexander">David W. Alexander</a></li> <li>David Anderson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Baldwin_(Los_Angeles_pioneer)" title="James Baldwin (Los Angeles pioneer)">James Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Baltz" title="Peter Baltz">Peter Baltz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phineas_Banning" title="Phineas Banning">Phineas Banning</a></li> <li>John Barre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bayer" title="Joseph Bayer">Joseph Bayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Bell_(California_merchant)" title="Alexander Bell (California merchant)">Alexander Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionisio_Botiller" title="Dionisio Botiller">Dionisio Botiller</a></li> <li>Leonicio Botiller</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narciso_Botello" title="Narciso Botello">Narciso Botello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_A._Boyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrew A. Boyle">Andrew A. Boyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Carson" title="George Henry Carson">George Henry Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Bradford_Caswell" title="Samuel Bradford Caswell">Samuel Bradford Caswell</a></li> <li>Caro W. Childs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ozro_W._Childs" title="Ozro W. Childs">Ozro W. Childs</a></li> <li>T. B. Collins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Franco_Coronel" class="mw-redirect" title="Antonio Franco Coronel">Antonio Franco Coronel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ygnacio_Coronel" title="Ygnacio Coronel">Ygnacio Coronel</a></li> <li>George Dalton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ygnacio_del_Valle" title="Ygnacio del Valle">Ygnacio del Valle</a></li> <li>Jose Maria Doporto</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_McKenzie_Dodson" title="Arthur McKenzie Dodson">Arthur McKenzie Dodson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gately_Downey" class="mw-redirect" title="John Gately Downey">John Gately Downey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_Drown" title="Ezra Drown">Ezra Drown</a></li> <li>James Edwards</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Clark_Foster" title="Stephen Clark Foster">Stephen Clark Foster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Frohling" title="John Frohling">John Frohling</a></li> <li>Ira Gilchrist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_L._Goodman" title="Morris L. Goodman">Morris L. Goodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Goller" title="John Goller">John Goller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Granger" title="Lewis Granger">Lewis Granger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Strother_Griffin" title="John Strother Griffin">John Strother Griffin</a></li> <li>Joseph Lancaster Grant</li> <li>Jose Vicente Guerrero</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_A._Hoover" title="Vincent A. Hoover">Vincent A. Hoover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_W._Hope" title="Alexander W. Hope">Alexander W. Hope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Huber_Sr." title="Joseph Huber Sr.">Joseph Huber Sr.</a></li> <li>Arnold Jacobi</li> <li>Charles H. Johnson</li> <li>John F. Jones</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_W._Jones" title="Wilson W. Jones">Wilson W. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Keller" title="Matthew Keller">Matthew Keller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_King_(Los_Angeles_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John King (Los Angeles politician)">John King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Lazard" title="Solomon Lazard">Solomon Lazard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obed_Macy" title="Obed Macy">Obed Macy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damien_Marchesseault" title="Damien Marchesseault">Damien Marchesseault</a></li> <li>Luis B. Martinez</li> <li>Hiram McLaughlin</li> <li>Lewis Meinzer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Mellus" title="Francis Mellus">Francis Mellus</a></li> <li>Jacob Metzger</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Moore_(surveyor)" title="William Moore (surveyor)">William Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_L._and_Morris_Moritz" title="Julius L. and Morris Moritz">Moritz Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Morrison" title="Murray Morrison">Murray Morrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elijah_Moulton" title="Elijah Moulton">Elijah Moulton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_R._Myles" title="Henry R. Myles">Henry R. Myles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myron_Norton" title="Myron Norton">Myron Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agustin_Olvera" class="mw-redirect" title="Agustin Olvera">Agustin Olvera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Perry_(Los_Angeles)" class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Perry (Los Angeles)">William H. Perry</a></li> <li>William H. Peterson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehemiah_A._Potter" title="Nehemiah A. Potter">Nehemiah A. Potter</a></li> <li>David M. Porter</li> <li>Augustine Poulain</li> <li>William R. Rand</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Requena" title="Manuel Requena">Manuel Requena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Whipple_Robinson" title="William Whipple Robinson">William Whipple Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Roeder" title="Louis Roeder">Louis Roeder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomas_A._Sanchez" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomas A. Sanchez">Tomas A. Sanchez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_T._B._Sanford" class="mw-redirect" title="William T. B. Sanford">William T. B. Sanford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Schumacher_(Los_Angeles_pioneer)" title="John Schumacher (Los Angeles pioneer)">John Schumacher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Mar%C3%ADa_Sep%C3%BAlveda" title="Juan María Sepúlveda">Juan María Sepúlveda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Sichel" title="Philip Sichel">Philip Sichel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Signoret" title="Felix Signoret">Felix Signoret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abel_Stearns" title="Abel Stearns">Abel Stearns</a></li> <li>Eli Taylor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Jonathan Temple">Jonathan Temple</a></li> <li>John B. Thompson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_R._Toberman" title="James R. Toberman">James R. Toberman</a></li> <li>John Turner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Ulyard" class="mw-redirect" title="August Ulyard">August Ulyard</a></li> <li>Juan C. Vejar</li> <li>Collins Wadhams</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wartenberg" title="Henry Wartenberg">Henry Wartenberg</a></li> <li>Jacob Weizel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ozias_Wheeler" title="John Ozias Wheeler">John Ozias Wheeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_N._Whitman" title="George N. Whitman">George N. Whitman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Davis_Wilson" title="Benjamin Davis Wilson">Benjamin Davis Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Brown_Winston" title="James Brown Winston">James Brown Winston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_Woodworth" title="Wallace Woodworth">Wallace Woodworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geronimo_Ybarra" title="Geronimo Ybarra">Geronimo Ybarra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">Wards <br /> (1870–1889)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="padding:0px"><table class="navbox-columns-table" style="border-spacing: 0px; text-align:left;width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">1st Ward</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_A._Chavez" class="mw-redirect" title="Julian A. Chavez">Julian A. Chavez</a></li> <li>Bernard Dubourdin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jones_and_Doria_Deighton-Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="John Jones and Doria Deighton-Jones">John Jones</a></li> <li>Thornton P. Campbell</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Macy" title="Oscar Macy">Oscar Macy</a></li> <li>Julian Valdes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Mullaly" title="Joseph Mullaly">Joseph Mullaly</a></li> <li>George R. Long</li> <li>Jacob F. Gherkins</li> <li>Ramon R. Sotelo</li> <li>Joseph G. Carmona</li> <li>F. Tamiet</li> <li>B. Valle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cayetano_Apablasa" title="Cayetano Apablasa">Cayetano Apablasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_Hamilton" title="Ezra Hamilton">Ezra M. Hamilton</a></li> <li>Louis Meinzer</li> <li>John Schaeffer</li> <li>R. L. Beauchet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Norton_Monroe" class="mw-redirect" title="William Norton Monroe">William Norton Monroe</a></li> <li>J. G. Bower</li> <li>Clinton S. Scheiffelin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Schroeder" title="Charles W. Schroeder">Charles W. Schroeder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Thomas_Lambie" title="William Thomas Lambie">William Thomas Lambie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Velsir" title="James Velsir">James Velsir</a></li> <li>Thomas Goss</li> <li>George L. Stearns</li> <li>Edward A. Gibbs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hanley_(California_politician)" title="James Hanley (California politician)">James Hanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newell_Mathews" title="Newell Mathews">Newell Mathews</a></li> <li>C. N. Earl</li> <li>George O. Ford</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">2nd Ward</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ferguson_(Los_Angeles_pioneer)" title="William Ferguson (Los Angeles pioneer)">William Ferguson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Fall" title="George Fall">George Fall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Teed" title="Matthew Teed">Matthew Teed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prudent_Beaudry" title="Prudent Beaudry">Prudent Beaudry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Workman" title="William H. Workman">William H. Workman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jose_Mascarel" class="mw-redirect" title="Jose Mascarel">Jose Mascarel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Lichtenberger" title="Louis Lichtenberger">Louis Lichtenberger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Kuhrts" title="Jacob Kuhrts">Jacob Kuhrts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Cohn_(politician)" title="Bernard Cohn (politician)">Bernard Cohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_W._Potts" title="James W. Potts">James W. Potts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Hollenbeck" title="John Edward Hollenbeck">John Edward Hollenbeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._C._Lips" title="C. C. Lips">C. C. Lips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Molony_(carriage_maker)" title="Richard Molony (carriage maker)">Richard Molony</a></li> <li>Jesse Houston Butler</li> <li>John Bobenreith</li> <li>H. Schumacher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pascal_Ballade" title="Pascal Ballade">Pascal Ballade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hammel_(California)" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Hammel (California)">Henry Hammel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_R._Day" title="Frank R. Day">Frank R. Day</a></li> <li>John Frederick Holbrook</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_V._Biscailuz" title="Martin V. Biscailuz">Martin V. Biscailuz</a></li> <li>Michael Thomas Collins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Cuddy" title="Thomas J. Cuddy">Thomas J. Cuddy</a></li> <li>John Moriarty</li> <li>H. T. D. Wilson</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FCC200;;width:1%">3rd Ward</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Sabichi" title="Frank Sabichi">Frank Sabichi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Dockweiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Dockweiler">Henry Dockweiler</a></li> <li>William S. Hammel Sr.</li> <li>John Osborn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elijah_H._Workman" title="Elijah H. Workman">Elijah H. Workman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H.K.S._O%27Melveny" class="mw-redirect" title="H.K.S. O'Melveny">H.K.S. O'Melveny</a></li> <li>William H. Dennison</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eulogio_F._de_Celis" title="Eulogio F. de Celis">Eulogio F. de Celis</a></li> <li>William Osborn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_E._Huber" title="Charles E. Huber">Charles E. Huber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_W._Wolfskill_and_Louis_Wolfskill" title="Joseph W. Wolfskill and Louis Wolfskill">Louis Wolfskill</a></li> <li>Thomas Leahy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D.V._Waldron" class="mw-redirect" title="D.V. Waldron">D.V. Waldron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisha_K._Green" title="Elisha K. Green">Elisha K. Green</a></li> <li>John S. Thompson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_H._Jones_and_Carrie_Otis_Jones" title="John H. Jones and Carrie Otis Jones">John H. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Fenner_Kercheval" title="Albert Fenner Kercheval">Albert Fenner Kercheval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Brode" title="Charles Brode">Charles Brode</a></li> <li>Simon A. Francis</li> <li>S. H. Buchanan</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Edward Falles Spence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Gephard" title="George Gephard">George Gephard</a></li> <li>Andrew S. Ryan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Steere" title="Robert Steere">Robert Steere</a></li> <li>J. B. 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