Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1906
"Another important annexation was described by Ingersoll as "the uninhabited territory known as the 'Palisades.'" This also occurred in 1906.
"The Freeholders' charter set up a system, usual in those days, whereby each ward elected a councilman, and there were seven wards, covering the various parts of the city. The first council under this form of government consisted of George D. Snyder, R.W. Armstrong, Abe S, Reel, H.L. Coffman, J. Euclid Miles, Roscoe H. Dow, and Alf Morris, president.