In 1841 the Workman-Rowland party arrived in Los Angeles from Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was then part of old Mexico. It was 30 years later before he returned to Reading, long after his mother had died. Traveling over land on horseback, Pliny arrived at the Pueblo de Los Angeles. The Tasso arrived in Monterey on June 26 of the same year with a cargo valued at $15,000 and a customs duty of $16,000 to be paid, which demonstrates how high the percentage of profit was in those days. Pliny embarked on the American brig “Tasso”, a vessel of 314 tons burden with Captain Sam J. As the voyage took six months each way, his mother granted him two years’ leave. Letters from Jonathan no doubt prompted him to ask his mother for permission to visit his brother in California. He then took a two-year mercantile course in Boston. He later built the first important buildings there, including a market, a theater and the courthouse.Īt home in Reading, Pliny attended the public school until he reached the age of 17. A year later he had established himself as the first merchant of the Pueblo de Los Angeles in an adobe building at the intersection of what is now Spring and Main Streets. Pliny’s eldest brother, Jonathan, or Don Juan as he became known in Alta, California, sailed around the Horn, visited the Sandwich Islands and finally landed in San Diego in 1826. He was a descendant of Abraham Temple who had landed in Salem from England in 1636. Temple was the son of Pliny Fisk Temple who was born in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts on February 12, 1822.
The redundancy in the name City of Temple City came when Temple City incorporated on May 25, 1960.īehind the story of the proud family bearing the name of Temple lies the romance of missions and ranchos, the gallantry of the pioneering dons and beautiful senoritas and indeed the history of the San Gabriel Valley down to the derivation of many of the street names in Temple City. A one-year celebration for the Town of Temple took place in September 1924 with a rodeo and became officially designated as Temple City in 1928. The town of Temple was founded on when approximately 285 acres of land were purchased by land developer Walter P.
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