Patterson, also invested significantly in local land. They joined the Episcopal church and Ross was a member of the California Club of Los Angeles. Ross married Ynez Hannah Bettis in 1874 and a son, Robert Erskine Ross, was born to them. Later, he was appointed to the circuit court, where he served as a judge for more than thirty years. President Grover Cleveland soon appointed him to the new U.S. He studied law at Thom’s law office, was admitted to the bar and served as a California Supreme Court justice for several years before returning to private practice in 1886. Like his uncle, Ross left Virginia for California. Some of the trees bore fruit well into the 1920s, when the orchards gave way to subdivisions. He planted citrus trees, deciduous fruit trees and olive trees and built a mill for making olive oil. Ross’ 1100 acres stretched from Verdugo Road to the village of Casa Verdugo. The two were law partners for many years and managed their ranch properties in common, eventually selling the parcels on which the town would be founded. Thom sold some of his property to his nephew, Erskine M. Thom is considered one of the prime movers in the city’s beginning and the only participant in the bankruptcy and the ensuing partition to personally assume an active part in Glendale’s beginning. His wife, the former Bella Hathwell, was also active in the new community. He was a large stockholder of the Bank of Glendale, organized in 1905, and a principal taxpayer in Glendale in its early years. He was elected mayor of Los Angeles in 1882.Īlthough Thom never lived in Glendale, he invested in many local projects, such as the Glendale Hotel and the interurban railway between Los Angeles and Glendale. After a presidential pardon, his political career continued. He returned, only to discover that he had been disbarred, as a California state statute prohibited Confederate sympathizers from practicing law. When the Civil War began, Thom went back to support the Confederacy, serving as a captain. Eventually, he was elected to the state senate. He accepted a job in San Francisco with the United States Land Commission, then transferred to the Los Angeles office. After trying his hand at gold mining, he opened a law office in Sacramento. Cameron Eskine Thom, a native of Virginia, studied law at the University of Virginia, qualified for the bar and, in 1849, joined a party headed for Sacramento.
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