Rosedale, LA.
George Shatto bought Santa Catalina island, 26 miles offshore from the Los Angeles area, and laid out the island's town, Avalon, which opened for tourism in 1888. He sold the property for economic reasons and went into other real estate ventures. The Good Samaritan Hospital at Wilshire and South Lucas occupies the land of his former mansion of which only the wall survives. He died in a minor train crash.
Owen McAleer was the 36th Los Angeles Mayor, from 1904-06. He moved from Canada to Los Angeles via Ohio in the 1880s and built the first steam boiler in the city. As a city councilman, he helped bring water to the city, with the planning of the LA Aqueduct in the Owens Valley River project. He was credited with establishing the first municipal playground - on Violet Street. He owned and trained driving horses, and as mayor set aside a stretch of West Washington Street for a mile west of Western Avenue for use by "drivers who delight in vying with each other off the racetrack." According to the LA Times, "policemen have been given to understand that some latitude be allowed horsemen there."
Louise Glaum was an actress, nicknamed "The Spider Woman". Entering films in 1912, Glaum initially played comic ingenues, including a co-starring role in 35 episodes of the "Universal Ike" series in 1914. After winning critical praise for "Hell's Hinges" (1916), and "The Three Musketeers" (1916), she switched to vamp roles and became a star in such steamy (for the time) melodramas as "Shackled" (1918), "Love" (1920), and "Sex" (1920). The latter, her most famous film, caused controversy for its title alone. For a few years Glaum rivaled original sex siren Theda Bara in popularity, and one critic called her "The best actress of all the screen vamps".
Sherman Otis Houghton mined gold during the California gold rush, then was Deputy Clerk of the State Supreme Court, then Mayor of San Jose, California 1855-56. He married a Donner party survivor, and when she died, he married her cousin, also a survivor. He was Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and was appointed Commissioner to investigate the affairs of the US Mint at San Francisco in 1881. The the Liberty Ship, SS Sherman O. Houghton was named after him. The Donner-Houghton House, a historic building in downtown San Jose, was built by Houghton in 1881.