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Elijah H. Workman - Wikipedia

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Elijah H. Workman (1835–1906) was a pioneer agriculturist in Los Angeles, California, and co-owner of a saddlery there. He also served on the Los Angeles Common Council, the legislative branch of city government in that era.

Personal

Family

Workman was born October 20, 1835, in Missouri, the son of David Workman of Clifton-Penrith, England, and Nancy Hook of Virginia. He had a brother, William H. Workman. Around 1854 the family crossed the Great Plains to settle in Los Angeles.^[1]

He was married three times—first, in Booneville, Missouri, shortly after the Civil War, to Julia C. Benedict (his childhood sweetheart), who died in 1876; then to Gilla Maria Corum of Boonville, in 1878 in Los Angeles; and finally, in 1884, to Anna K. Webb of Los Angeles; she died in 1900. He had two daughters, Gilleta M., and Laura (Mrs. Conrad Krebs).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Personality

His biography in the Los Angeles Public Library states that:

Elijah H. Workman was of the pioneer type of public figure: he wore boots to his dying day and lacked the more formal education of our times. With the conscientious fulfillment of his public duties[,] he combined the pioneer spirit of enterprise and development.^[1]

In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a Protestant.

Death

Workman died July 17, 1906, at the age of 71 in his home at 1815 East Second Street, Boyle Heights.^[2]^[4]

Vocation

Workman was in the harness and saddlery business with his brother, William H. Workman, at 76 Main Street. They also dealt in hides, which were recognized as a medium of exchange throughout the Southwest.^[1]^[5]

Returning from his trip to Missouri, Workman brought back seeds for trees and plants that he propagated in his own yard, getting the reputation of a "pioneer agriculturalist." His property, surrounded by 10th and 11th streets, Hill and Main streets, was planted with orange trees and flowers.^[1]^[6] He sold that land and moved to Boyle Heights after the death of his third wife.^[2]

Public service

Workman was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the legislative branch of city government, in 1866–67, 1869–70, 1871–72 and 1874–75. He was on the city Board of Education in 1879–80 and on the Board of Equalization in 1869–70.^[1]

In 1870 Workman was a member of a committee to establish a public park, which was accomplished between Fifth and Sixth streets, and Workman planted seedlings from his own garden and nursed them from water hauled in barrels from his property a few blocks away. He planted elms, maples and rubber trees on the park site, first known as Central Park and then as Pershing Square.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g [1] Los Angeles Public Library reference file, with sources as noted there
^ ^a ^b ^c "Passing of a Pioneer," Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1906, page II-4
^ "Miss Gilleta Workman of Pioneer Family Dies," Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1950, page A-2
^ [2] Location of the Workman home on Mapping L.A.
^ John Steven McGroarty, Los Angeles From the Mountains to the Sea, Chicago and New York: American Historical Society (1921)
^ [3] Location of the Workman property on Mapping L.A.

Members of the Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889)

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Members
(1850–1870)

Wards
(1870–1889)

1st Ward

Julian A. Chavez
Bernard Dubourdin
John Jones
Thornton P. Campbell
Oscar Macy
Julian Valdes
Joseph Mullaly
George R. Long
Jacob F. Gherkins
Ramon R. Sotelo
Joseph G. Carmona
F. Tamiet
B. Valle
Cayetano Apablasa
Ezra M. Hamilton
Louis Meinzer
John Schaeffer
R. L. Beauchet
William Norton Monroe
J. G. Bower
Clinton S. Scheiffelin
Charles W. Schroeder
William Thomas Lambie
James Velsir
Thomas Goss
George L. Stearns
Edward A. Gibbs
James Hanley
Newell Mathews
C. N. Earl
George O. Ford

2nd Ward

3rd Ward

Frank Sabichi
Henry Dockweiler
William S. Hammel Sr.
John Osborn
Elijah H. Workman
H.K.S. O'Melveny
William H. Dennison
Eulogio F. de Celis
William Osborn
Charles E. Huber
Louis Wolfskill
Thomas Leahy
D.V. Waldron
Elisha K. Green
John S. Thompson
John H. Jones
Albert Fenner Kercheval
Charles Brode
Simon A. Francis
S. H. Buchanan
Edward Falles Spence
George Gephard
Andrew S. Ryan
Robert Steere
J. B. O'Neil
Charles Gassen
Charles R. Johnson
Loring A. French
Albert Brown
Levi Newton Breed
Edward Wadsworth Jones
Edward C. Bosbyshell
John F. Humphreys
J. H. Book
John Henry Bryant

4th Ward

William H. Workman
Samuel J. Beck
Samuel Marshall Perry
O. H. Bliss
Bernard Cohn
Burdette Chandler
George Kerckhoff
Joseph W. Wolfskill
Alfred Louis Bush
D. E. Miles
Frank Sabichi
Milton Santee
James D. Bullis
John Lovell
Joseph Hyans
Anthony McNally
Edward R. Threlkeld

5th Ward

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