Item 18 - Appeal Application Nos. 2023-02 and 2023-03 for Cabrillo Town Center project

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HISTORIC RESOURCES ASSESSMENT TOWN CENTER PLAZA � C A A DULY 2022 SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA J an active promoter of the Ohio Falls Car Company, a heavy industry. He was also associated with the Bank of Kentucky and the Bank of Louisville. In 1866, he visited California, and being pleased with the climate, people, and prospects, he decided to make his home in San Francisco. In March 1888, he relocated to San Jose and was identified with that city until his death. He was so active in banking and finance that his mug book biographer dubbed him "The Father of Banks of the Pacific Coast." Besides his large part in building San Jose's Woolen Mills, Street Railway, and Water Works, he was either the leader or one of the prime movers in organizing and developing the following banks: • Pacific Bank of San Francisco • San Jose Savings Bank • Consolidated National Bank of San Diego • First National Bank of Los Angeles • Bank of Anaheim • Commercial Bank of Santa Ana • Salinas City Bank • Bank of San Jose • First National Bank of Fresno • Bank of Tulare • Bank of Selma • Bank of Pasadena • Bank of Riverside • Garden City Bank He had interests in several other savings banks, was a large investor in the Los Angeles Street Railway, and was an extensive landowner throughout Southern California. At the time of his death, he was one of the owners of the ferry system across the Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville, Kentucky (Los Angeles Times 1903). Like James Irvine (1827-1886), Llewellen Bixby (1825-1896), and other California land barons, Hiram Mabury invested for the long-term. Hiram and his wife, Josephine, had two sons and five daughters (Los Angeles Times 1903). Although he occasionally turned a quick profit, as in the case of his real estate investment near MacArthur Park, which went on to become the site of the Downtown Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (Los Angeles Times 1925), his overall strategy was to keep his land holdings intact, living off the income generated by operations such as ranching, oil leases, and growing Valencia oranges in Orange County. To protect the family fortune, he formed the H & J Mabury Trust Company of Boston, Massachusetts (Los Angeles Times 1925). At some point, perhaps around the time of Hiram's passing, the trust was reorganized as the H & J Mabury Play °touncif �07/21/22) 18 - 778 10/3/2023 7