• History of Hemet, CA.

  Hemet is located in the San Jacinto Valley, 35 miles southeast of Riverside, at the foot of Mount San Jacinto. The Indians were the original inhabitants of the area for thousands of years before the arrival of Spanish, Mexican, and European settlers. For hundreds of years prior to the late 1800s, Luiseno and Cahuilla tribes roamed the valley, living in mountain caves during the winter months and in simple huts during the summer.

  An 1842 land grant was made by the Mexican government to Don Jose Antonio Estudillo as payment for his services as administrator of the Mission San Luis Rey cattle ranching operation. This grant became known as the Rancho San Jacinto Viejo and covered what is now Hemet, San Jacinto, Valle Vista, and Winchester. After the Civil War, pioneer families began settling around the rancho perimeter and were given opportunities to purchase land from the Estudillo family.

• California History Quarterly Index

  Mayberry, Edward L., 45:264; 53:139, 152, 155, portrait, 153

  Mayberry, Edward Leodore, Jr., 53: portrait, 153

  Mayberry, Mrs. Emily Gray, 53:155

  Maybury (overland, 1849), 21:307

• Alhambra, CA. - A Brief History

  ALHAMBRA, CA. -- IT'S COLORFUL PAST AND PROMISING FUTURE Midway in the nineteenth century, many people were drawn to the fabulous land of Alta California, lured by the promise of gold. Some settled in the north; others came over the southern trails and remained in Southern California to acquire great ranchos and smaller acreage planted with oranges and grapes.

  Among those who came to the valley of the San Gabrielino Indians were families from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee; cultured New England professional men and their families, and adventurers from everywhere. It is the composite of these that makes the story of Alhambra.

  The principal part of the land within Alhambra's present boundaries was included in a 1771 grant made to Mission San Gabriel, five years before the birth of our nation. There were no orchards or vineyards in San Gabriel Valley then, only dry un-cultivated fields broken by arroyos and low-lying hills from the Mission San Gabriel west to the small Indian village called "Yang-na," which later become Los Angeles. According to 1784 records of individual land grants made by the Spanish government, at least a portion of the land on which Alhambra was built was once part of 300,000 acres grant to Manuel Nieto. Confusion in the validity of the Mission grant resulted in years of litigation.

  Edward Mayberry sailed around the Cape Horn in 1855 in his family's sailing ship and arrived in San Francisco where he built the Colton House, Grand Hotel and government buildings in Sacramento as well as the Napa Sanitorium. He settled in Alhambra in 1879 after a six-month stagecoach tour of Southern California, trying to locate an ideal spot to live in and to raise imported Hamiltonian horses. He purchased 160 acres between Valley Boulevard and the Southern Pacific Railroad, east of Chapel Avenue. Mayberry built a home at 300 Granada which is still standing. Two years later, he purchased the Old Mill property from the Hollenbecks and built one of the area's best race tracks. It was bounded by the present Virginia Road, Old Mill Road, Huntington Drive, and Lacy Park, San Marino. He built another home, this one on the mesa above Old Mill Road. When the property was sold to Henry Huntington after Mayberry's death in 1902, Mayberry's son and his family purchased a large section of land in northwest Alhambra and built a home on North Stoneman.

• San Francisco Call Newspaper - Vital Records for the Years 1869-189
  Name .......... Event and Year ........ Spouse or Age ................ Record No.
  Maberry, dau of Geo. W. ... born in 1872 ... 1872B-1022
  Mabrey, Eliza ... died in 1885 ... age 66 ... 1885D-2881
  Mabry, Albert Y. ... married in 1873 to Smith, Lou P. ... 1873M-1783 Mabury, Frank H. ... married in 1874 to Cadwell, Helen A. ... 1874M-1725







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