Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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M. E. WOOD, 
 
City Treasurer, Pasadena, is a native of Bangor, Maine; was reared and received 
his education in that State; remained there until 1876, when he came to 
California and located at Los Angeles, engaging in tree-planting at what is now 
Pasadena, and then only a ranch. He planted two orange orchards, one of them 
where the opera house now stands, and the other just above the Universalist 
Church. He was among the first to engage in orange-raising. He engaged in the 
furniture business for several years, and was for a number of years engaged in 
the fruit and produce business in Arizona. He has been actively identified with 
the interests of Pasadena and one of its most enterprising citizens, in the 
progress and development of this beautiful suburban city of Los Angeles. He was 
instrumental in getting up excursion parties from Boston for several years. In 
the spring of 1889 he was elected city treasurer and now holds that office, and 
is also treasurer of the Pasadena Board of Trade.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 677
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler