Los Angeles County
Biographies
GEORGE
DALTON, SR.
The name of Dalton is associated with the pioneer history of Los Angeles, for it was in the year 1851 that George Dalton located here and began the improvement and cultivation of a ranch of one hundred and seventy-four acres. Though he lived to see remarkable changes in the country, yet he did not see the magnificent development which has long since changed the land he cultivated into the heart of the wholesale district of Los Angeles. His original ranch of one hundred and seventy-four acres, for which the purchase price was one thousand dollars, was situated east of what is now Central avenue.
George Dalton was born in London, England, July 19, 1806. He early went to sea and in 1827 he was on this coast in a merchant vessel, and afterward he went to the East Indies and to many other ports of the world. In 1837, on the day that Victoria was proclaimed queen, he left Liverpool and came to New York. He lived in Pennsylvania for three years and then went to Circleville, Ohio, where he was interested in the manufacture of fanning mills. Here he lost his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Mary Ann Sage and by whom he had three children: George, Jr., who married Elizabeth E. Parker; Elizabeth M., who married W. H. Perry; and Mary A., who married Rev. J. D. Crum. Mr. Dalton’s second wife was Elizabeth Myers, who was born in Ross county, Ohio. Of this union were born four children: Winald Trevalley; Edwin Henry; Matthias Myers; and Josephine S., who married Charles Victor Hall.
In 1851 Mr. Dalton brought his family to California via the Isthmus of Panama. They located on the Azusa ranch then owned by his brother, Henry Dalton, and remained there until 1854, when Mr. Dalton removed to what is now Los Angeles. In 1855 he established his first home on Washington street, at what is now Central avenue. Here he engaged in horticultural pursuits, setting out orchards and vineyards. In 1887 he moved to his home on Walnut street, now Twenty-third street, still hale and hearty at the age of eighty-three years. With his children and grandchildren near him, he passed the remaining years of his useful life conscious of the respect and admiration of the community in which he had lived so many years. He died January 7, 1892.
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7-14-12 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
171-172, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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