Ingersoll's Century History Santa Monica Bay Cities (Being Book Number Two of Ingersoll's Century Series of California Local History Annals), 1908, 1908a, 1881
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[p. 182] Chapter III. From Town to City. 1880-1890.
[p. 182] Juan J. Carrillo [1842- ] was born in Santa Barbara, September 8th, 1842. When he was ten years old he was sent with a party of boys, sons of Californians, to New York, making the trip around the Isthmus of Panama in charge of a priest, who placed the youths in a private family in New York City. The woman in charge proved to be a fraud, and the boys were taught nothing and were badly treated in every way, until an old friend of Mr. Carrillo's father discovered them. Then Juan and his brothers were removed to the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass. near Boston. Here they remained six years, returning to California in 1858.
In 1864 Mr. Carrillo came to Los Angeles and entered the store of Caswell, Ellis and Wright, then one of the largest establishments in the state. He remained with the firm for 14 years, then served for four years as city marshal of Los Angeles. In 1881 he located in Santa Monica and has since that date been intimately associated with the history of this place. He acted for a time as agent for the Baker interests in this vicinity and has been instrumental in securing many valuable concessions for the city.
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[p. 244] Chapter VI South Santa Monica and Ocean Park
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In 1881, Mrs. Lucas, who was rather eccentric and lived on the place much of the time alone except for her Chinese cook, died suddenly under circumstances which gave rise to suspicion and much comment. She was said to have died from the effects of strychnine poisoning, supposedly used for killing rats. The property passed into the hands of her heirs and was soon broken up. The house, with three acres of land, was sold to Miss Mary Green, in her day known as one of the most beautiful women in California. She soon afterward married Dan Mooney, a well-known character of early days. He had been a miner in Arizona and had acquired considerable fortune. They took up their residence in the Lucas house which was thereafter known as the "Mooney Mansion."
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[p. 266] Chapter VII Public Institutions
Schools
. . . [p. 266] One memorable occasion was an entertainment and dance held on the evening of December 31st, 1881, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of an organ for the school-house. The Los Angeles papers announce that the affair was a great success and that the tableaux would have been creditable to a first-class theater. It should certainly have been a well rehearsed affair, for in a dispute over one of the rehearsals, the teacher, W.H.P. Williams, an impetuous southerner, shot and seriously wounded one McDonald whom he thought to be interfering with his plans. Naturally the young professor was requested to resign, but the entertainment was carried out by his successor, W.W. Seaman, who later became a well known state official. The minutes of the school board for December 30th, 1881, state, "A Wilcox and White organ was presented to the public school of Santa Monica, the money for same having been raised by a series of public entertainments gotten up through the instrumentality of Mr. M.R. Gaddy and others."
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[p. 269] School Trustees of Santa Monica
1880-81: M.D. Johnson, Loren Heath, W.S. Vawter (clerk).
1881-82: George Giroux, W.R. Gaddy, W.S. Vawter (clerk).
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[p. 270] Supervising Principals of Santa Monica Schools:
1880-81: Florella King.
1881: W.H.P. Williams.
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