Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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AUGUSTUS ULYARD 
 
was born in Philadelphia, February 22, 1816. In 1841 he engaged in the bakery 
business in St. Louis, continuing there until 1848. In 1837 he was a member of 
the Texas Volunteers who were fighting the Mexicans. In 1846 he married Mary 
Field, who was born in England. They have no children of their own, though they 
have adopted seven, three of whom are now living. He and his wife came across 
the plains in 1852, and arrived in Los Angeles the last day of that year. They 
have been residents here ever since, and have seen the small Mexican pueblo of a 
few thousand inhabitants become a modern American city  of 75,000 people. They 
have outlived the most of the people who bore sway in Los Angeles at that 
period, and they have seen a new generation and strangers take the place of the 
old "poblanos." Mr. Ulyard helped to form the first Republican League in 1856, 
in a two-story frame house on Main street belonging to Captain Alexander Bell, 
the pioneer, who was a presidential elector in the Fremont campaign. Mr. 
Ulyard's parents came from France.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 662
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler