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70-753: Born in England, William Workman (1799–1876) immigrated to the United States as a young man with his older brother David. He migrated to Taos, where he married and worked for some time. Then he went further west, to the San Gabriel Valley in 1841, then within Alta California of the Mexican Republic. He bought part of the Rancho La Puente and built an adobe house in 1842. It was enlarged over

140-623: A cemetery and chapel on his grounds, and acquire real estate. One such acquisition came in 1850 when Workman, who had loaned money to grantee Casilda Soto de Lobo, foreclosed on the Rancho La Merced . He gave the property to his ranch foreman, Juan Matias Sanchez, and his daughter, Margarita, and her husband, P. F. Temple , Francisco P. Temple - F.P.T . Subsequently, with his son-in-law F.P. Temple and Juan Sanchez, Workman acquired neighboring ranchos, including Rancho Potrero Grande , Rancho Potrero de Felipe Lugo , and Rancho Potrero Chico, in

210-492: A spectacular example of Spanish Colonial Revival style , built by the Temple family between 1922 and 1927. The family's own design was drawn up by the well-known Los Angeles architectural firm of Walker and Eisen, although in 1924, Beverly Hills-based architect Roy Selden Price was hired to reconfigure the design. The structure is largely built of adobe bricks handmade by artisans led by Pablo Urzua of Guadalajara, Jalisco , while

280-478: A brief sojourn in the northern gold fields . This was followed by F.P.Temple's return to Los Angeles, around which time William Workman granted them half of the 2,363-acre (9.56 km ) Rancho La Merced in the Whittier Narrows near today's South El Monte, California . The Temples built a single-story adobe house, said to have measured 70 x 110 feet (34 m), and which later had a second floor of wood and

350-943: A clerk in his brother Jonathan's store and, when the first small discovery of gold in California was made in Placerita Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles in Spring 1842, he shipped gold dust to a brother in Reading who then sent it on to the national Philadelphia Mint . Perhaps it was at the Temple Store that Pliny met Margarita Workman. The Antonia and Pliny Temple family lived in Los Angeles until 1849, while Pliny worked in Jonathan's store, and then left his employ for

420-458: A decade until Temple, newly enriched with oil revenue from his Montebello ranch, bought the ranch and cemetery. From 1919 to 1921, Temple's first priority on the ranch was the renovation of El Campo Santo and the building of a mausoleum, designed by the architectural firm of Garstang and Rea, on the site of the chapel. The reopening of the cemetery took place in April 1921, at which time the remains of

490-518: A decade. After they migrated to Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1844, they had a church marriage at the nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel . The couple had two surviving children, Antonia Margarita (1830–1892) and Joseph Manuel Workman (ca. 1833–1901.) While a success as a merchant and distiller , Workman was embroiled in the difficult local politics of the period in Nuevo México. He and his partner John A. Rowland were forced to swear loyalty to rebels in

560-438: A full schedule of festivals, weekend living history tours, behind-the-scenes tours, workshops and other events throughout the year. California Historic Landmark Marker on the site reads: Also located in the city of Industry is Workman High School named after William Workman. Workman-Temple family The Workman–Temple family relates to the pioneer interconnected Workman and Temple families that were prominent in:

630-417: A glass plaque (still in family hands) that dated his landfall as November 5, 1841, a British national holiday called Guy Fawkes' Day . Early in 1842, John A. Rowland obtained a Mexican land grant to Rancho La Puente , at that time 18,000 acres (73 km ), from Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado . The Rancho was in the San Gabriel Valley about twenty miles (32 km) from Los Angeles. William Workman

700-508: A native of Stockton in January 1870 in San Francisco . José and his wife had seven children. Their daughter Josephine Workman became silent movie actress Mona Darkfeather (January 13, 1883–September 3, 1977), who portrayed American Indian women in films. The historic "Workman House", the original adobe from 1842, with brick additions and a thorough remodel by 1870; "La Casa Nueva,"

770-470: A residence and then office and nurses' quarters for El Encanto sanitarium from 1940 to 1963. The home and cemetery were then purchased by the City of Industry. Many original details have long been lost, but historic elements survive, such as the ca. 1870 interior staircase, two marble coal-burning fireplaces from the same period, and a ceiling cartouche from that era. Late 1970s-era restoration efforts were limited to

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840-461: A resurgence of his family in regional affairs through oil, real estate, construction, and philanthropy in the 1920s. In 1903, Walter Temple married Laurenza Gonzalez, a member of an early Californio family, who was born and raised just a stone's throw away from Temple in the Misión Vieja (Old Mission) community in present Whittier Narrows. The two had five children, four living to adulthood, and

910-648: A saddlery, returning to England three years later to retrieve the remainder of his bequest. In the process, David convinced William to join him, and the two brothers sailed from Liverpool and landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September 1822. William Workman stayed in Franklin for three years, working for his brother, before joining an early caravan on the Santa Fe Trail , which opened in Franklin, Missouri in 1821. He traveled to Santa Fe de Nuevo México - New Spain in

980-554: A ten-acre vineyard and fruit trees (apple, fig, peach, pear and pomegranate). His ornamental garden of about 90 square feet at the back of the house was stocked with tropical fruit and flowers. The chapel was being built with brick made on site. Workman provided horses to the US government during the Civil War. Although the cattle industry was buffeted by the decline of the Gold Rush and battered by

1050-500: A vibrant use of stained glass of the period. The home is also unique as it features a madonna with child, however not with a traditional face, the face is more contemporary; wearing makeup, facial structure changed etc. The home was lived in by the Temple family for only two full years (1928 and 1929) as a fully completed structure, the home was leased to Lawrence Lewis, who was headmaster of a boys' military academy, Raenford (later Golden State), which moved from Redondo Beach and operated at

1120-572: Is a cemetery located at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum , 15415 East Don Julian Road, in City of Industry, California . As one of the oldest private cemeteries in Southern California , El Campo Santo contains the remains of the pioneering Workman-Temple family as well as Pío Pico , the last governor of Alta California , and other prominent pioneer families. Within its low brick walls,

1190-580: Is the burial of founder William Workman's older brother, David , in November 1855. A year later, artist Henry Miller, touring California to visit and sketch the Spanish and Mexican-era Roman Catholic missions, stayed at the Workman House and prepared sketches for a chapel contemplated by Workman. On 30 May 1857, the cornerstone to St. Nicholas's Chapel (named in honor of Workman's wife, Nicolasa Urioste de Valencia)

1260-582: The Mexican–American War . A group of Americans, including Benjamin D. Wilson and Rowland, were seized in late summer 1846 at the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino house of Isaac Williams . Workman and neighboring ranchero Ignacio Palomares worked to free the prisoners, who were held at Paredon Blanco (later Boyle Heights.) After the native Californios , in the Siege of Los Angeles , were successful in expelling

1330-600: The Panamint Range mines. To finance these projects, the two joined forces with young merchant Isaias W. Hellman and formed the second bank in Los Angeles: Hellman, Temple and Company (1868-71.) When Temple and Hellman split over disagreements, Workman being a silent partner, Hellman formed Farmers and Merchants Bank with ex-Governor and pioneer L.A. banker John G. Downey , while Temple and Workman went on their own. The banking house of Temple and Workman (1871–1876)

1400-630: The San Fernando Valley in Cahuenga Pass on 9 January 1845, Workman and two others brought out the flag of truce the following morning at Campo de Cahuenga . Notably, the legislature of Alta California ordered Governor Pío Pico to go to Mexico (based in Mexico City) and request assistance. When Pico returned to Los Angeles in 1848, he spent some time at Workman's residence. When the ex-governor refused to present himself to Jonathan D. Stevenson ,

1470-589: The San Gabriel River . During the Civil War, he had experimented successfully with cotton, when the southern states were losing crops and market share. Finding transport to Eastern markets to be too difficult, he abandoned this crop. By 1870, Los Angeles was growing rapidly and Workman joined his ambitious son-in-law, F. P. F.(Francis Pliny Fisk) Temple, in the emerging business arena of the nascent city. The two men invested in real estate subdivisions, notably: Lake Vineyard in today's Alhambra and San Marino in

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1540-696: The San Rafael Hills ; and Centinela near the Centinela Adobe area in Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela - Rancho Sausal Redondo , in the present day Los Angeles International Airport-LAX area; some of the first oil speculating in the Santa Susana Mountains near present-day Santa Clarita , and others. The two men invested in early railroads too, such as the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad project from Santa Monica to Panamint City and

1610-586: The Taos Revolt , who assassinated the departmental Mexican governor in 1837. After a counter-revolt squashed the Taoseño rebellion, Workman and Rowland were arrested for smuggling . A few years later, when the independent Republic of Texas and its president, Mirabeau B. Lamar , sought to extend its boundary to the Rio Grande , thereby annexing the principal towns of New Mexico, Workman and Rowland were named agents of

1680-658: The history of colonial Pueblo de Los Angeles and American Los Angeles ; the Los Angeles Basin and San Gabriel Valley regions; and Southern California from 1830 to 1930 in Mexican Alta California and the subsequent state of California , United States. William ('Don Julian') Workman (January 15, 1802–May 17, 1876) was born in Temple Sowerby, Westmorland , now Cumbria , England, to Thomas Workman (1763–1843) and Nancy Hook (1771–1830). When William

1750-411: The 1870s. Still, after 1865 he moved quickly to expand and diversify his agricultural production. He had raised wine grapes since the 1840s, and now built three wine-making and storing structures of brick. He had d some 60,000 vines on about 100 acres (0.40 km ) of vineyards . He also had 5,000 acres (20 km ) of wheat on the "Wheatfield Ranch" north of his home, and built a grist mill near

1820-838: The 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival architecture residence of Walter Temple and Laura Gonzalez,; the 1850s " El Campo Santo Cemetery " Cemetery, a private family burial ground. All are at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum. The historic Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum , city owned and funded, is located in the City of Industry , a mile north of the Pomona Freeway — SR-60 at 15415 East Don Julian Road, just west of Hacienda Boulevard . Free public guided tours are given Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. There are large festivals, weekend living history tours, and other public events year-round. El Campo Santo Cemetery El Campo Santo ( Spanish for "The Holy Field")

1890-530: The 92-acre (370,000 m) ranch from 1930 to 1935. The home and property were then owned by the California Bank and occupied by caretakers until purchased in October 1940 by Harry and Lois Brown, operators of El Encanto, a sanitarium moved to the site from Monrovia. The Brown family took excellent care of the house until it was sold to the City of Industry in 1975. Restoration took place in subsequent years with

1960-460: The American force left to guard the town after the initial conquest by U.S. forces, another American invasion was being led by Commodore Robert F. Stockton. Workman met Stockton at Mission San Juan Capistrano just after New Year's Day 1847 and arranged an amnesty for all Californios who would resist the American retaking of Los Angeles. When the last battle of the war on California soil was fought in

2030-485: The Mexican Congress, James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill on 24 January 1848. The resulting California Gold Rush brought a huge economic windfall to Workman, whose hide-and- tallow trade activities with his cattle ranching paled compared to the need for fresh beef and other supplies in the gold regions. The wealth generated allowed Workman to expand his ranching enterprises, enlarge his house, build

2100-577: The San Gabriel Mountains above modern Claremont, California and at Rancho San Jacinto y San Gorgonio near today's Idyllwild, California ; and cattle ranch lands, a slaughterhouse and a butcher shop in Springfield, California and Columbia, California in Tuolumne County 's famed gold centers. F.P.Temple was also politically involved, serving as Los Angeles City Treasurer in 1851–52, on

2170-610: The Temples ranched and farmed on their new holdings when their eldest child, Thomas, discovered oil in Spring 1914. After leasing the tract to Standard Oil Company of California, which brought in the first producing well in June 1917, the Temples were the beneficiaries of some two dozen wells drilled over the next several years, including a few major gushers. William Workman's son José Manuel Workman (February 10, 1833–March 13, 1901) married Josephine Belt (December 19, 1851 – July 1, 1937),

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2240-625: The Texans in New Mexico. Although it is unclear whether they sought the position, and they were soon replaced, they decided to leave for Alta California early in 1841. In September of that year, a group of up to sixty-five or so members, including Americans, Europeans and New Mexicans, left New Mexico and took the Old Spanish Trail to the Los Angeles pueblo . The 1,200-mile (1,900 km) journey

2310-455: The US military commander at Los Angeles, Stevenson raged that Workman was complicit in this defiance. He said that Workman was "ever hostile to the American cause." Suspicion by the US military was also cast toward the motives of ranchero and major landowner Hugo Reid , who had settled in California after immigrating from Scotland . Nine days before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified by

2380-481: The Virginia City crisis by selling off huge amounts of stock and who was investing in Los Angeles area real estate. Baldwin's demands for the loan were virtually impossible to meet, but Temple and Workman accepted nonetheless. With confidence in the bank irrevocably shaken, depositors quietly drained the institution dry of the borrowed funds and Temple and Workman closed on 13 January 1876. The resulting inventory of

2450-468: The area generally known as Misión Vieja or Old Mission, around the first site of Mission San Gabriel at Whittier Narrows . Workman later had interests in what are today's Beverly Hills and Glendale . He also had a claim to the Lytle Canyon area near Rancho Cucamonga and Cajon Pass . By 1861 Workman was engaged predominantly in livestock raising, holding 3,000 head of cattle and 600 horses. He had

2520-450: The bank's affairs by the assignees revealed an unmitigated management disaster. Though Temple and Workman were worth several million dollars, most of that wealth was tied to land mortgaged to Baldwin. Workman, bewildered by events he had no hand in shaping, was visited by a court receiver named Richard Garvey, also an associate of Baldwin, on 17 May 1876. That evening, an ailing Workman took his own life at his home on his beloved rancho. He

2590-679: The battle that ensued was limited to minimal gunfire and no casualties, Workman, his lieutenant John Rowland, Benjamin Davis Wilson , and James McKinley from the Pico side worked out a surrender option with Americans and Europeans on the Micheltorena side. The former Mexican governor was allowed to leave California by ship. Pico assumed the governorship. He relocated the Alta California capital from Monterey to Los Angeles. Together with his plan to move

2660-552: The building. The Workman Adobe was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 20, 1974. It was added to the California State Register of Historic Landmarks, No. 874, in conjunction with the family "El Campo Santo" Cemetery on the site. An historic marker was placed on the site on 5 November 1976, the 135th anniversary of the arrival of the Workman family to the area. The broad outlines of

2730-598: The cemetery will cease being in active use. The museum, opened 1 May 1981, is owned and fully funded by the City of Industry and its management is currently contracted to Historical Resources, Inc., owned by museum director Paul R. Spitzzeri. Guided public tours of the Workman Home, 'La Casa Nueva' , and El Campo Santo Cemetery at the Homestead Museum are available on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, excepting major holidays. The museum also maintains

2800-408: The crash at San Francisco reached Los Angeles by telegraph, a panic broke out. Unable to meet the demand for cash by customers, Temple and Workman suspended business for thirty days and desperately needed an infusion of cash to stay open and stave off bankruptcy. After over three months, the bank finally reopened with a loan from Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin , a San Francisco capitalist who precipitated

2870-524: The customs house to San Pedro Bay , among other issues, this roused northerner José Castro to mount a challenge to Pico's authority. Workman was appointed to lead the defense of Los Angeles against an incursion by Castro's forces. At the same time he learned that the United States army was ready to invade the department of Alta California for other actions in the Mexican-American War. William Workman played an important role in subsequent events during

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2940-487: The family lived on a 50-acre (200,000 m ) parcel inherited from Walter's mother after her death in 1892. With longtime friend, Milton Kauffman, however, Temple acquired 60 acres (240,000 m ) to the west at the corner of the Montebello Hills that had belonged to his father before the 1876 failure of the bank of Temple and Workman and sold the former Temple Homestead. Living in an 1869 adobe built by Rafael Basye,

3010-485: The first Los Angeles County board of supervisors in 1852-53 and as Los Angeles county treasurer in 1876–77. He was a rare Whig /Republican in a county political world completely dominated by Democrats - specifically, Southern Democrats . By the time Los Angeles experienced its first significant growth after the United States Civil War , F.P.Temple dove headlong into business projects that were intended to ride

3080-486: The first of a series of strokes within months after the closure of the bank. Largely confined to a small portion of his Rancho La Merced, Temple died at age 58 of another stroke, then called apoplexy , though claims by some writers seeking to romanticize the story further than warranted claimed he died in a "rude sheepherder's hut" on a corner of the rancho. The tenth child of F. P.F. Temple and Margarita Workman, Walter P. Temple (June 7, 1869–November 13, 1938) brought

3150-535: The first to be buried here was William Workman's brother David Workman (1797–1855) , who was killed in an accident while driving cattle to the gold fields in Northern California . At the turn of the 20th century, the cemetery was abandoned and its brick chapel destroyed by fire. Walter P. Temple, a grandson of the Workmans, successfully filed a lawsuit preventing any further desecration of the cemetery. In 1917, he

3220-464: The home opened as part of the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum in May 1981. While most of the house was intact, some replication was done and the house was almost entirely furnished with acquired period pieces, though some original family furniture and artifacts have been donated by Temple descendants. The family cemetery, El Campo Santo , was established in the 1850s. The earliest documented date

3290-582: The importation of better breeds from Texas, environmental disasters decimated it as a mainstay of the regional economy. The dual disasters of flood in 1861-62 and drought from 1862 to 1865, caused the loss of much stock. Fortunately for Workman, his friend, William Wolfskill , found water and grass in the Mojave Desert , in today's Apple Valley area. He invited Workman and John Rowland to send their herds there. Even after losing 25% of his cattle herd, Workman still maintained an inventory of thousands of head into

3360-528: The last governor of Alta California , Pío Pico , and his wife, Ygnacia Alvarado, were placed in the mausoleum. It also contains the remains of other prominent pioneer families. The Workman Home And Family Cemetery are designated California Historical Landmark No. 874. The cemetery remained in use during the occupancy of the Temple family in the 1920s and during that of the Brown family from 1940 to 1981. In recent years there have been three burials. Walter P. Temple

3430-404: The occupation and annexation of California by US forces and migrants following its victory in the Mexican-American War. In early 1845, William Workman was appointed captain of a cadre of Americans and Europeans serving with Governor Pío Pico in his standoff with appointed Governor Manuel Micheltorena at the battle at Cahuenga Pass of the Mexican–American War , northwest of Los Angeles. Although

3500-495: The one-half acre cemetery features a Neoclassical mausoleum and a small cemetery plot surrounded by a Gothic Revival cast-iron fence. In the early 1850s, the family of William Workman (1799–1867) established El Campo Santo, or "the sacred ground," as a cemetery solely for the use of their family. Along with a cemetery plot enclosed by an ornate cast-iron fence, they built a Gothic Revival brick chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas by Bishop Thaddeus Amat of Los Angeles . Among

3570-466: The outside of the structure. The entire east wall was reconstructed, as it was mostly of adobe and had collapsed during work in 1977. Two houses are open for tours on the property: admission is free, as is parking. Each is a 45-minute guided only tour. Several aspects of the house remain off limits: the cellars, upstairs of the Workman home, and dormitories of the former military school. The Homestead Museum also includes "La Casa Nueva"  –

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3640-410: The property, reduced from 24,000 to 75 acres (300,000 m) after the family's bank failed in 1876, was lost by the family in 1900, the chapel was said to have burned and was razed, as were three of the original brick enclosure walls. Numerous gravestones were removed and the site desecrated. A lawsuit by Walter Temple, Workman's grandson, in 1907 halted the destruction, but the cemetery languished for

3710-483: The remarkable life he lived in the Los Angeles area from the 1840s to the 1870s. The first marriage in Los Angeles city history in which both persons had "Anglo" surnames was in September 1845, of William Workman's daughter Antonia Margarita Workman (July 26, 1830–January 24, 1892) to Pliny Fisk Temple (Francisco P. Temple or F.P.T ) - February 13, 1822–April 27, 1880.) The Temples had eleven children, eight living into adulthood. Pliny Fisk Temple-F.P.T

3780-478: The spring of 1825. He settled in Taos where he did some fur trapping, opened a store, and, in partnership with American John A. Rowland , manufactured liquor. Taos was popular among fur traders who wintered in the town and enjoyed their liquor after months in the back country. William Workman had a common-law marriage with Maria Nicolasa Urioste de Valencia (April 19, 1802–February 4, 1892), ( Pueblo ), for more than

3850-399: The structure, including large porches on the north and south sides, measure 19' deep by 72' wide. There are eight rooms on the first floor and three finished rooms (with three others evidently finished in the late 19th century) on the second story. The home was dramatically altered over the years, especially when it was used for military school classrooms from 1930 to 1935. It was later used as

3920-466: The supervising contractor was Sylvester Cook of Whittier. The home (9,000 square feet, as built, with 2,000 square feet (190 m) of dormitory space constructed in 1930 for a military school using the home) contains twenty-six rooms, including nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, a barber shop, commercial size electric cold storage unit, basement with a late 1870s bank vault for storage, and other notable features such as hand painted designs on windows as well as

3990-403: The wave of the boom. As discussed above in the section on William Workman, the silent partner in the partnership Temple spearheaded, the wave eventually crashed and ruined the fortunes of the Temple and Workman families by 1876. Temple's personal popularity among his fellow citizens spared him the wrath that might otherwise have been directed to the president of a failed bank, although he suffered

4060-471: The years and, by 1870, was remodeled with the addition of brick wings and a second story, as well as impressive exterior decorative details. This renovation was said to have been designed by the first trained architect in Los Angeles, Ezra F. Kysor , designer of the extant Pico House hotel, St. Vibiana's Cathedral , and the Perry House, all in Los Angeles. But there is no known documentation of Kysor's work on

4130-447: Was 76 years old. Workman's death was a shock to a jittery community unnerved by the economic paralysis that plagued the community for the remainder of the decade and well into the next and the population of the city and county dropped for the only time since 1865. As a failed banker, Workman is little known today, though his home at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum is open for visitation by those who want to know more about

4200-503: Was able to purchase the cemetery and the surrounding 75 acres (300,000 m ) and began restoration. In place of the chapel, however, he built a cast stone Neoclassical mausoleum and moved the remains of his family inside. In 1921, he also transferred the remains of Pío Pico and his wife, Ygnacia Alvarado de Pico, from old Calvary Cemetery on North Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles , which was being relocated, and had them entombed in

4270-800: Was accompanied, by the 1870s, by a two-story French Second Empire (architecture) -style brick dwelling. The Temple ranch had vineyards, orchards , a grist mill, and was stocked with cattle, horses and other animals. Temple also was among the first in Los Angeles County to raise thoroughbred horses , starting in the early 1860s. He also was the owner of much property outside the county, including: horse grazing land in Alameda County, California ; thousands of acres in Madera County and Fresno County, California ; lumber mills in San Antonio Canyon in

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4340-512: Was born, then relocated to Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1828 and opened the town's first store. He became a prominent citizen. After six months sailing around the horn of South American to Monterey and then traveling south, Pliny arrived at Los Angeles around the first of July 1841. A visit with Jonathan turned into a permanent relocation and Pliny returned home just once, in summer 1870, to enroll two sons at Harvard and M.I.T. in Boston. Pliny worked as

4410-471: Was completed by late fall, when John Rowland presented a letter of recommendation from New Mexico's American consul and a list of expedition members to the authorities in Los Angeles. The Workman-Rowland Party was long considered the first American wagon train to Los Angeles. But in fact the party could not use wagons because of the difficult Old Spanish Trail route, nor were they solely Americans. Workman commemorated his arrival in Southern California with

4480-464: Was developed as the city of La Puente . Workman occupied the western portions of the rancho and built an adobe home on the property in 1842. It was expanded by 1856 and significantly remodeled by 1870. The mid 1840s were a tumultuous period because there were two closely timed military actions occurring: the struggle between the Californios and Mexican appointed leaders from outside California, and

4550-432: Was eleven years old, his father inherited a substantial home and property in nearby Clifton from a childless aunt and uncle and relocated his family there. In 1814, the Workmans issued cash bequests upon their three sons, with the eldest, David Workman , using half his money to migrate to America in 1817. David settled in the new town of Franklin, Missouri , the virtual western end of the country, in 1819. There he opened

4620-503: Was laid and blessed by Bishop Thaddeus Amat . Construction of the Gothic Revival structure, which measured 24' x 48' and featured gilt ceilings and stained glass windows, was completed by the early 1860s. The cemetery was used exclusively as a private burial ground for Workman and Temple family members and friends. and Masses were regularly heard at the chapel, presumably celebrated by a priest visiting from Mission San Gabriel . After

4690-603: Was named for a Congregationalist missionary in Palestine , was born to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Parker in Reading, Massachusetts , near Boston . After completing his education, he took ship around Cape Horn to California in January 1841, hoping to meet his half-brother, Jonathan Temple , who was twenty-six years older. Jonathan had left for the Sandwich Islands- Hawaiian Islands in the early 1820s before Pliny

4760-524: Was not officially an owner at that time (possibly because he had not yet become a naturalized Mexican citizen), but he received an official document allowing him the privileges of an owner in settling on the rancho . In July 1845, Governor Pío Pico amended the La Puente grant, adding Workman's name officially as owner and expanding the rancho to the maximum allowable under Mexican land law, eleven square leagues, or almost 49,000 (48,790.55) acres, 48,790-acre (197 km ). A portion of Rancho La Puente later

4830-426: Was popular, but largely for the wrong reasons. Temple's lending policy was liberal and the bank was poorly managed by head cashier Henry S. Ledyard. Further, the bank's investments in a wide range of projects were dangerously depleting cash reserves, especially after the state economy collapsed in a silver mining stock speculation fever at the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada in late August 1875. When news of

4900-400: Was relocated to the site in 2002 from Mission San Gabriel, where he was buried in 1938 after the cemetery's owner, California Bank, refused the Temples' request to have him buried there. Temple's son, Walter Jr., the last member of the family to have lived at the Homestead, and daughter-in-law, Nellie Didier, were buried in the cemetery in 1998. A spot is reserved for their daughter, after which

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