Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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SAMUEL BRADFORD CASWELL 
 
was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, January 3, 1828. His ancestors were of 
English extraction. The first on the paternal side to come to this country were 
three brothers Caswell, who came to Taunton about 1630, or very soon after the 
first settlement of the Plymouth Colony. His maternal ancestors were Leonards.  
When seventeen years of age he moved to Fall River, and later to Wareham, where, 
in the year 1849, on the day he attained his majority, he married Miss Mary 
Bradford Gibbs. In 1852 he engaged in merchandising at Fall River, till 1855, 
when he came to California via Panama.  He went to Nevada County, where he 
devoted his attention to mining till 1864, he being one of the first to 
introduce hydraulic washing. He sold out that year and visited the East. In 
June, 1865, he returned to California and came to Los Angeles, where with John 
F. Ellis, now deceased, he engaged in merchandising, doing an extensive business 
till 1875. From 1875 to 1878 he was clerk of the city council. Since that time 
he has been in the employ of the City Water Company as auditor. Mr. Caswell was 
a supervisor of the county one term, and in 1872 he was a member of the city 
council. Mr. Caswell is a thorough business man, of broad views and wide 
experience, of great executive ability and of sterling integrity. He is one of 
the executors of the extensive estate of the late Remi Nadeau. Mr. and Mrs. 
Caswell have had two children�a daughter who married J. T. Clarke, of Norwich, 
Connecticut, now deceased, and a son, William Mitchell, who is the present 
cashier of the Los Angeles Savings Bank. The latter was for three years a cadet 
at West Point.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 431
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler