Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 / Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark

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INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 1834-1853

CHAPTER II WESTWARD, HO! 1853

CHAPTER III NEW YORK NICARAGUA THE GOLDEN GATE 1853

CHAPTER IV FIRST ADVENTURES IN LOS ANGELES 1853

CHAPTER V LAWYERS AND COURTS 1853

CHAPTER VI MERCHANTS AND SHOPS 1853

CHAPTER VII IN AND NEAR THE OLD PUEBLO 1853

CHAPTER VIII ROUND ABOUT THE PLAZA 1853-1854

CHAPTER IX FAMILIAR HOME-SCENES 1854

CHAPTER X EARLY SOCIAL LIFE 1854

CHAPTER XI THE RUSH FOR GOLD 1855

CHAPTER XII THE GREAT HORSE RACE 1855

CHAPTER XIII PRINCELY RANCHO DOMAINS 1855

CHAPTER XIV ORCHARDS AND VINEYARDS 1856

CHAPTER XV SHERIFF BARTON AND THE BANDIDOS 1857

CHAPTER XVI MARRIAGE THE BUTTERFIELD STAGES 1858

CHAPTER XVII ADMISSION TO CITIZENSHIP 1859

CHAPTER XVIII FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH THE TELEGRAPH 1860

CHAPTER XIX STEAM-WAGON ODD CHARACTERS 1860

CHAPTER XX THE RUMBLINGS OF WAR 1861

CHAPTER XXI HANCOCK LADY FRANKLIN THE DELUGE 1861

CHAPTER XXII DROUGHTS THE ADA HANCOCK DISASTER 1862-1863

CHAPTER XXIII ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN 1864-1865

CHAPTER XXIV H. NEWMARK and CO. CARLISLE-KING DUEL 1865-1866

CHAPTER XXV REMOVAL TO NEW YORK, AND RETURN 1867-1868

CHAPTER XXVI THE CERRO GORDO MINES 1869

CHAPTER XXVII COMING OF THE IRON HORSE 1869

CHAPTER XXVIII THE LAST OF THE VIGILANTES 1870

CHAPTER XXIX THE CHINESE MASSACRE 1871

CHAPTER XXX THE WOOL CRAZE 1872-1873

CHAPTER XXXI THE END OF VASQUEZ 1874

CHAPTER XXXII THE SANTA ANITA RANCHO 1875

CHAPTER XXXIII LOS ANGELES and INDEPENDENCE RAILROAD 1876

CHAPTER XXXIV THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC 1876

CHAPTER XXXV THE REVIVAL OF THE SOUTHLAND 1877-1880

CHAPTER XXXVI CENTENARY OF THE CITY ELECTRIC LIGHT 1881-1884

CHAPTER XXXVII REPETTO AND THE LAWYERS 1885-1887

CHAPTER XXXVIII THE GREAT BOOM 1887

CHAPTER XXXIX PROPOSED STATE DIVISION 1888-1891

CHAPTER XL THE FIRST FIESTAS 1892-1897

CHAPTER XLI THE SOUTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1898-1905

CHAPTER XLII THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 1906-1910

CHAPTER XLIII RETROSPECTION 1910-1913

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.

The book uses both Phillippi and Phillipi.

SIXTY YEARS
IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

1853-1913

CONTAINING THE REMINISCENCES OF

HARRIS NEWMARK

EDITED BY

MAURICE H. NEWMARK
MARCO R. NEWMARK

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. In these pursuits, therefore, the first speculators lie under great disadvantages, and, even when they fail, are entitled to praise.—Macaulay.

WITH 150 ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
The Knickerbocker Press
1916


Copyright, 1916
by
M. H. and M. R. NEWMARK


To

THE MEMORY OF

MY WIFE


In Memoriam

At the hour of high twelve on April the fourth, 1916, the sun shone into a room where lay the temporal abode, for eighty-one years and more, of the spirit of Harris Newmark. On his face still lingered that look of peace which betokens a life worthily used and gently relinquished.

Many were the duties allotted him in his pilgrimage; splendidly did he accomplish them! Providence permitted him the completion of his final task—a labor of love—but denied him the privilege of seeing it given to the community of his adoption.

To him and to her, by whose side he sleeps, may it be both monument and epitaph.

Thy will be done!

M. H. N.
M. R. N.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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